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By Meg Hagerty, Special to The Chronicle

After 45 years running Hudson Falls’s Hilltop Construction Company, Tom Albrecht, 66, retired and swapped his title of CEO/President for Pastor of 147-year-old First United Methodist Church on Montcalm Street in Lake George.

Mr. Albrecht says he’s answering a call “placed on his heart by God.”

Hilltop, now led by his son, daughter and son-in-law, is known for building Stewart’s Shops, stores, offices, …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

We’ve been hearing it’s not as busy this season in Lake George, or the region.

“What I’m hearing is it’s a little bit down from last year,” says Lake George Village Mayor Bob Blais. “Of course, that was our best year ever.”

He says parking meter revenues, an indicator, are down “about 3.4 percent.”

At Thursday fireworks shows, “The cars are not parked back …

By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri, Chronicle Summer Staff

On Tuesday, July 12, South High grad Cameron Woodard gave a presentation to the South Glens Falls Rotary Club about his first year at the Air Force Academy.

The Club had honored Cameron with its annual South High graduating senior award “for academics and community service. I was nominated…by faculty and administrators in the South Glens Falls School District.”

Cameron said that summer at …

By Ben Kinne, Special to The Chronicle

“Beautiful.” That’s how resident Curtis Hill describes the new 25 LaRose Apartments on LaRose Street in Glens Falls near the Broad Street Hannaford. Rents range from $994 to $1,366 and are calculated based on income.

Building B is already complete and fully occupied. Building A’s expected completion is the fall of this year.

The $68-million project to construct the two new three-story apartment …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

I’m new at covering Planning Board meetings. I find them interesting (though exhausting). You learn a lot, about specific projects, about a community, about aroused citizens and about the challenge these volunteer board members face.

I expected fireworks at the July 18 Moreau Planning Board meeting. The controversial Biochar waste-heating project was on the agenda, but it was the final item, meaning the packed, …