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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Dylan McDonnell isn’t altogether at ease with the Birthday Bash fund-raiser set for Friday, Sept. 30, 5 to 10 p.m. in the Queen’s Ballroom at the Queensbury Hotel, marking his 45th birthday.

Dylan, Glens Falls High School Class of 1995, was diagnosed at age 19 with the debilitating disease Friedreich’s Ataxia.

For 10 years, 2007-2017, Dylan, his family and friends organized a benefit for …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Hal Raven, 43, has loved trains all his life. Now he owns one. Not just a train, a railway. In May he launched the Saratoga Corinth & Hudson Railway offering scenic train rides on a 90-minute, 14-mile round-trip ride between Corinth and Greenfield Center, passing landmarks and marshes along the way. Where the train crosses roads, people get out of their vehicles and watch …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Demolition of the former Water Slide World in Lake George is to begin “in the next few days,” attorney Jonathan Lapper said Monday in response to a Chronicle query. Mr. Lapper represents Richard Schermerhorn who purchased the 12-acre property last month for $3 million and plans a mixed-use project with as many as 200 market-rate apartments, plus commercial space for offices and retail at …

By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri, Chronicle Summer Staff

Minky Mink, the downtown Glens Falls women’s clothing boutique, is featuring local women modeling its clothes on its website and Instagram.

“We do high-style fashion photo shoots every month & love photographing women from our community. We invite you to reach out & work with us,” Minky Mink exclaims on its website. “Anybody can do it.”

“I think it was my sister’s idea,” says …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Randy Travis at the Charles Wood Theater last Sunday turned out to be one of the great Glens Falls events of all time.

The country music legend and his wife Mary Travis sold out two shows, afternoon and evening — and they made their mark in Corinth and Glens Falls besides.

Kevin Richards, the local CMA award- winning DJ, produced the event and proved …