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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Jeff Vukelic and his brother Paul purchased 100-year-old Minogue’s Beverage Centers last week from Jack Minogue.

It’s a tale of two family businesses spanning several generations.

“We are a fourth generation family-owned business with locations in Western and Eastern New York, built on the core values of ‘Will to Win, Trust, Doing the Right Thing, and Fun’,” says Jeff.

He said he and his …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The City of Glens Falls’s aim to turn the green wedge of property between Glen and Bay Streets into a pocket park has encountered another snafu.

It turns out the lot never was actually subdivided from the 333 Glen Street Associates property where the Travelers building, parking garage and surface parking lot stand.

The Glens Falls Planning Board approved the subdivision months ago, but …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

“I’m zero for six, but it’s a good zero for six,” says Robin Barkenhagen, 56. He’s run six times for public office in Glens Falls without winning.

Mr. Barkenhagen lost, 284-342, to Bob Landry for the open Ward 2 seat on the Common Council in the Nov. 2 election. Mr. Barkenhagen ran on the Democratic and Working Families lines.

Republican Mr. Landry, the recently …

By Mark Frost & Zander Frost, Chronicle Editor & Staff Writer

Glens Falls School Superintendent Paul Jenkins met with the public — more than 200 people attended — Thursday evening, Nov. 4, in the auditorium to discuss the school’s ongoing Covid response.

Some implored the school to ease restrictions and mask requirements.

“People understand the risks which are objectively low,” one parent said. “They, we, our kids, are ready to …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Barton International, the garnet mining company headquartered in downtown Glens Falls, invited The Chronicle in to discuss plans to, in their words, “modify” its mining operations within land it owns in the Town of Johnsburg.

Barton says current permit parameters only allow eight more years of operation at its Ruby Mountain Mine, which began operation in 1983. They said it’s one of four “large …