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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls has been closed since the pandemic struck, but financially it’s holding its own.

“We’ve been so lucky,” its director Jonathan Newell told The Chronicle.

“A couple of reimbursement grants recently got paid out, including one from National Grid. That was one we got four years ago, and they just called and said it’s time to start paying out. …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Thinking that rules for drive-in movies would apply for a drive-in concert, Lake George music promoter Dave Ehmann put together a three-show run by Vermont jam band Twiddle July 31-Aug. 2 at the Festival Commons space in Lake George Village.

The two initially scheduled shows both quickly sold out — 190 vehicles for each concert — so Mr. Ehmann booked a third and that …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Every year Len Romeo called Howard Lebowitz to see if he would sell him his Glens Falls Toyota dealership.

It was such a ritual, Howard recalls, that he’d tell Len, “Has it been a year already?”

Len says the conversation was always cordial. Both men have deep roots in the local car business. Len, best known locally for Carriage Traders used car business in South …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Mark Faille, who in the past decade has become a major farm presence in Washington County raising “100% grass-fed beef and pasture-raised pork,” last Friday bought the 197-acre Pole Valley golf course in the Town of Hartford and renamed it Hartford Greens Country Club. His son Dylan, 28, is managing it.

Dylan told The Chronicle in a phone interview Sunday evening, “It’s really touching how …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The local children’s charity Operation Santa Claus has cancelled, due to Covid, what would have been the 35th Operation Santa Ball at the Sagamore, which has organizers thinking Christmas in August.

“Fretting” might be the better word.

Founding director Frank Munoff contacted The Chronicle to say that Operation Santa faces a significant drop in funding in a year when demand will likely be up …