Chronicle Staff Writer Zander Frost & Editor Mark Frost write: Lake George Mayor Bob Blais e-mailed local media Tuesday, urging “opposition to the present plans to redistrict the 45th Senate District.” He said a proposed plan involves “removing the Town of Queensbury and the City of Glens Falls from the present district,” which he wrote “makes no common sense at all.”
The Chronicle contacted Senator Dan Stec. He downplayed the …
Read More »By Jason Irwin, Chronicle Rock Around the Block
It was March 16, 2020, that I got the text from JP Bruno’s owner, Perry Leonbruno. “We have to shut down. It’s all over the news.”
I spent the previous weekend as the house DJ at the popular South Street establishment, and a big night for St. Patrick’s Day was expected. Unfortunately, the pandemic had other plans.
It’s a story that many …
Read More »Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Beginning Nov. 6, the Saturday morning Glens Falls Farmers Market will move to Aviation Mall in Queensbury through April 30. Winter hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This year’s final “summer” Market is this Saturday, Oct. 30, 8 a.m.-noon at South Street Pavilion in Glens Falls.
Some 25 to 29 vendors are expected for the winter market, said Aviation Mall General Manager James …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Faced with a price tag more than double what was projected, Glens Falls will drastically change its plan for a Farmers Market-multi use center on South Street.
“Sometime next week,” City Economic Development Director Jeff Flagg told The Chronicle, Envision, the city’s architectural consultant, will submit a scaled-back, reworked project.
Instead of the new enclosed building planned for the former OTB property, the market …
Read More »By Zander Frost & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor
After 35 years, Nick Barber and Mike Smith have sold Pilot Knob Marina on Lake George to John “JD” Donnelly, a Massachusetts healthcare software entrepreneur, for just under $3-million.
“It’s one of those things where it’s bittersweet,” Mr. Barber told The Chronicle. “We just think it was time.
“Neither one of us have children. There’s nobody to follow us …
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