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Chronicle Staff Writer Zander Frost writes: Farmers say the 2023 New York State budget announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul includes tax credits that will help them ease the impact of a lowered agriculture overtime threshold.

Ideal Dairy owner John Dickinson told The Chronicle via text, “Hard not to be happy. This session invested more in agriculture than any other in the recent past.”

Mr. Dickinson and other local farmers urged …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Sad news, that comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried died Tuesday at the age of 67 from complications due to muscular dystrophy, reports said.

Back in 2015, Mr. Gottfried did a show at Heritage Hall in the then-Glens Falls Civic Center that was so “blue” — and so equally hilarious — that I thought I might go to Hell just for being in the same …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Davidson Brothers brewery/restaurant building downtown has been on the market for about a year — but a social media post last week of the Loopnet.com real estate investment Website just brought it to public attention.

Asking price is $1,995,000 for the two-story, 10,560 square foot building, touted for its exposed brick walls, “expansive” outdoor plaza, and annual traffic of 12,420 vehicles — “only 2%” …

Easter Egg hunts are back in fuller force this year, including one for dogs and one for adults. See the Chronicle Calendar for full listings.

All of these are on Saturday, April 16:

• Glens Falls: St. Mary’s Church, 62 Warren Street, 9:15-11 a.m. Egg hunt, refreshments, visits with the Easter Bunny. Free. Register: 798-0989.

• Glens Falls: City Park, by Crandall Public Library, 9:30-11 a.m. Adirondack Health …

The Birch Bark Eatery building at 21 Ridge Street in downtown Glens Falls — two doors up from The Chronicle office — is listed as “Sale Pending” online with Howard Hanna Real Estate.

The listed asking price is $699,600. The agent is Angela Cugini in the Queensbury office.

The 4,300 square foot commercial building includes “a large retail/restaurant space on the first floor and two luxury apartments on the second …