Friday, November 22, 2024

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4 seek 2 trustee spots: Rockwell Falls Library Board, Luzerne

On May 16 voters will elect two trustees to three-year terms on the five-person board that oversees Rockwell Falls Public Library. The vote takes place as a separate part of the Hadley-Luzerne Central School District’s annual budget vote.

The library and the upcoming vote have drawn increased interest in the wake of the library’s scheduling and cancellation last month of a Drag Queen Story Hour.

The Chronicle offered the four …

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Qby. grad met R.I. rocker at LG bar: Result a booming biz: Line dance barn

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Kelly Kneeshaw graduated from Queensbury High School in 1982 and met New Englander Dan Albro that summer when he was playing in a rock and roll band at the now vanished Lake George bar Sky Harbor.

Rock brought them together, but country line dancing is how Dan and Kelly Albro have built a remarkable business — Mishnock Barn, touted as “the best Country Western Dance …

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Arrow Financial CFO responds to Mark’s questions: Bank’s condition

Chronicle Editor Mark Frost writes: “Arrow Financial Corporation Announces Receipt of NASDAQ Noncompliance Notice,” headlined an April 5 press release from the Glens Falls-based parent company of Glens Falls National and Saratoga National Banks.

It said Arrow Financial had failed to file its annual report on time and “If the company remains noncompliant at the end of the 180-day exception period, the Company’s shares of common stock will be subject …

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Tom Hoy retires as board chair of Arrow Financial, citing health; Bill Owens successor

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

“Tom Hoy has announced his retirement due to health reasons as Chairman of our Board, a position he has held since 2004,” Arrow Financial Corporation Chief Financial Officer Penko Ivanov disclosed to The Chronicle Monday, in an e-mail response to questions we posed about the bank’s condition. (See page 12.)

Mr. Ivanov said Mr. Hoy “will continue to serve as a member of our Board …

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Our men at the Masters

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

In what might be the greatest tough gig on the planet, four local men got backstage front-row passes to the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia — and all they had to do was work 13-hour days (or longer), nine days straight.

Peter Aust of Lake George and Larry Weaver of Queensbury were first-timers, hired to work security at Augusta National Golf Club. They …

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