Saturday, November 23, 2024

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Class of 2020: Did Covid change your college plan?

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Chronicle reached out to some Class of 2020 grads to ask what’s going on with their plans at this time of COVID-19.

Neil Hogan, GF: Defers Penn State

Neil Hogan of Glens Falls said, “I was going to go to go to Penn State this year, but I’ve decided that I’m going to defer and take online classes from Hudson Valley Community College. …

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Her hunch was right: Counted 7 loons in Eagle Lake census

By Joanne Conley

Eagle Lake is located in Essex County, tucked in between Paradox Lake and Ticonderoga.

I’ve seen bald eagles on Eagle Lake, but there is also an active loon population.

When my daughter-in-law told me about the Annual Loon Census, which has been taking place since 2001, I looked up our lake to see if it had been claimed.

It’s had no observers since 2017, so I signed …

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Garrow movie will show at Glen Drive-In on Thurs., 9/10

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Garrow, Lori Bailey’s 2019 movie about Adirondack 1970s murderer/rapist Robert Garrow, will be shown at the Glen Drive-In on Thursday, Sept. 10.

The 77-minute movie will be shown on its own rather than as a double feature, owner Brent Gardner tells The Chronicle.

It’s the story of Robert F. Garrow, including his troubled Adirondack upbringing in Mineville, his 1973 backwoods crime spree that terrorized …

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Bars & eateries react as NYS adds new limits on live music

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Sometime in the last week, the New York State Liquor Authority website updated its rules about live entertainment at restaurants and bars, sending area venues and musicians into an online tailspin.

The Liquor Authority says now on its Website, “Currently, only incidental music performances are safe and permissible.

By “incidental,” the Authority says it means,“Music should be incidental to the dining experience and not …

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Tense rally but some common ground?

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

A “Defund the Police” rally led by a self-described socialist Monday in City Park drew a larger crowd of angry pro-police protestors, but ended with a glimmer of mutual respect. “We had great conversations at the end, after things got quiet. That’s called building bridges and it is what happened. It is beautiful,” Mike Kibling of South Glens Falls told The Chronicle Tuesday morning.…

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