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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Warren County’s preliminary discussions to create a regional morgue in its former jail site have gained new urgency.

Dan Bruno, the Glens Falls Ward 4 county supervisor who chairs the Facilities Committee, told the April 21 county board meeting they’ve heard Saratoga County might do something similar, and there is concern other counties, or Albany Medical Center itself, might jump in and do a …

The Hudson Falls Police Department reported that a child, 11, was struck by a pickup truck Saturday. He was flown to Albany Medical Center for treatment.

Lexi North told The Chronicle that the victim was her son, Ryan. “He’s stable. He’s good,” she said.

“He is one strong kid. He’s been pretty with it considering he’s on a second surgery now.”

Ms. North said from Albany Med, “He’s got a …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

With Binley’s having shut down its garden center after sale of the property on the corner of Dix Avenue and Quaker Road in Queensbury, nearby Garden Time has opened an Annex there.

It will offer bedding plants, flowering annuals, vegetable starts, tropicals, geraniums, hanging baskets, shrubs and bagged mulches, soils, and fertilizers.

“We’re going to try to give the Binley customer the same quality …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Town of Fort Ann has passed a short-term rental law “to protect against adverse effects of this use while allowing it under appropriate circumstances.”

“I feel good about it. I feel good that it’s in place,” Supervisor Sam Hall said.

The law reads, “The Town Board has determined that short-term, transient rentals can be incompatible with the sense of privacy, community and ambience …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: We’ve seen some fine shows and musical love-fests at the Strand Theater in Hudson Falls. The Wailers — next-generation Reggae group of Bob Marley fame — took it to the rafters, as demonstrative an audience as I’ve yet seen in Hudson Falls, on Saturday night, April 22.

Much of the show, much of the full house was up and standing, singing if not shouting …