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‘What business would you like to see arrive or arise in the greater Glens Falls market?’

That was our Question of the Week last Thursday in the e-mail to Chronicle digital subscribers. (If you’re not subscribed, you should be! It’s free. Go to our web page, glensfallschronicle.com.)

Trader Joe’s and Costco were mentioned the most.

“Gourmet foods at supermarket prices,” Harriet Rogers of Glens Falls said of Trader Joe’s. Wrote …

Saratoga County Sheriff announced on its Facebook page that on December 1, its Narcotics Unit arrested Isaiah J. Whitehurst after executing a search warrant at 8 Second Street, Gansevoort. The release added, “Mr. Whitehurst is currently on parole in NYS for attempted murder.”

The search warrant led “to Narcotics Arrests & seizure of nearly 10 ounces of Cocaine and over $4,000 US currency,” the Sheriff’s release said.

The Sheriff’s Facebook …

A Thai couple have transformed the vintage former Sam’s Diner at 23 Dix Avenue in Glens Falls into Sweet Rice Thai Sushi. It opened on November 4.

Wife and husband owners Ae Siraroj and Ake Pholsamak did the renovations themselves over three months. They repainted the walls, re-did the floor and counter, and even built the tables.

Ms. Siraroj said they offer items either new or rare locally — including …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

The New York Independent Redistricting Commission released a proposed State Assembly map that would take effect in the next election, in 2024.

The map used this year was deemed an unconstitutional gerrymander in May, but the court said there was not enough time to draw new lines before the election.

The maps are subject to change. The commission will hold public hearings soliciting input …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Last Thursday, when we sent our weekly email with the link to the new Chronicle to our digital subscribers, for the first time we also posed a question and invited readers to respond.

We asked: ‘With the New York State Education Department banning all Native American mascots by the end of the 2022-23 school year, What should the new Glens Falls School District Mascot be? …