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By Maury Thompson, Special to The Chronicle

Blake Gendebien, the dairy farmer from Lisbon in St. Lawrence County endorsed Tuesday by the 15 Democratic county chairs, raised $266,602 in December and had $252,341 in his campaign fund as of Dec. 31, according to a campaign finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Democratic county chairs said Tuesday they selected him to be their nominee in the expected House race …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: “The headline should read, ‘Stop the Madness’,” Warren County Republican Chair Tim McNulty says of fevered rumors about the Republican nominee will be to fill Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s seat when she presumably becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Mr. McNulty laments, “It’s just getting to the point that we’ve got candidates and insiders and other people not involved in the process putting out …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

As promised in his State of the City address, Mayor Bill Collins proposed at the January 28 Common Council meeting to waive parking fines in the Elm Street lot.

He wanted to address parking lost in the South Street lot as Bonacio begins Phase Two of its DRI redevelopment plan.

It didn’t go as the Mayor hoped.

Ward 4 Councilman Ben Lapham said: “I …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

After over a year in Queensbury’s planning process and pushback from neighbors, the town Planning Board on Jan. 28 approved Foothills Builders’ plan to 64 living units — 16 residential buildings with four units each — as well as a community building and paths on Ridge Road at the former Mead’s Nursery, which closed in 2019 after 70 years.

Father and son both Joseph …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

There seemed to be universal appreciation when design of the new Shepard Park Amphitheater was unveiled Thursday, Jan. 30, at the Fort William Henry Carriage House. “It’s nice to see so many people care,” Lake George Village Mayor Ray Perry told the gathering of about 100 people.

A steering committee ranging from elected officials and architects to events presenters and artists devised the plan.…