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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 …

Adirondack Thunder, ECHL Hockey returns to Cool Insuring Arena with a pre-season home game this Friday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. vs. Reading Royals.

The regular season home opener is Saturday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. against the Newfoundland Growlers.

It’s been 593 days since the Thunder’s last regular season game on March 10, 2020 (vs. Worcester), the team notes.

There are 36 home games scheduled in the regular season, …

Chronicle managing editor Cathy DeDe writes: They call golf “a good walk ruined,” but how about the increasingly common experience of walking a trail that is literally lined with dog refuse — neatly packaged in the plastic bags often even provided at the trailhead — but then left by the side of the walk.

“Help me understand,” I asked via Facebook on Sunday, alongside 17 pictures I posted of “doggie …

A celebration of life for Michael Kovarik will take place Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 11 a.m. at the Washington County Fairgrounds. It will take place outdoors, in the sheep and goat barn, under cover but with open windows, to accommodate social distancing especially for those who may be immunocompromised.

Mr. Kovarik, a retired teacher, author and health advocate, passed away on September 22, “surrounded by family and friends” at their …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Dairy farmers joined by Republican State Senator Dan Stec and Democratic Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner held a media event at Ideal Dairy Farm on Wednesday, Sept. 29, imploring the state wage board not to reduce from 60 hours to 40 the threshold when farms must pay time-and-a-half overtime.

They said it would be disastrous for New York’s dairy farms — driving up their costs and …