By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
The Adirondack Theatre Festival opens its 25th anniversary season this week. Here are 25 random facts and thoughts.
1. Big-time from the start. ATF launched in 1994 with a winter fund-raiser performance of Love Letters starring Broadway icons Jason Robards and Elaine Stritch at the Lake George RV Park. The playhouse was filled and rapt. “Where did you get that audience!?” Robards marveled …
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Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2017 statement that the Glens Falls area has one of the highest cancer rates in the state became a topic at Monday evening’s public program on air pollution and human health hosted by the Clean Air Action Network at Crandall Public Library.
An audience member asked the panel about it. North Country Public Radio reported that Gov. Cuomo said in 2017, …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Warren County Sheriff Bud York is retiring. Shawn Lamouree and Jim LaFarr are seeking the Republican nomination to succeed him in a June 25th primary.
The Republican nominee becomes the favorite to win the November election, though both candidates could continue their run on third-party lines. So far no Democrat has entered the race.
Both contestants in the GOP primary are long-time members of …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Brien and Mike Moran, whose Moran’s Sporting Goods Store was a Hudson Falls mainstay that supplied athletic gear and bicycles to generations of local kids, are donating $500,000 to kick off a $1.1-million complete renovation of Derby Park in Hudson Falls.
The gift was announced Tuesday morning at a press conference in the former Washington County Courthouse building in downtown Hudson Falls.
“This community …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
The Glens Falls City School District “Class Rank Committee” is recommending that the school stop naming valedictorians and salutatorians, and disclose class rankings only for college and scholarship applications.
Trent Clay, assistant superintendent for curriculum, said the committee will now discuss it with superintendent Paul Jenkins and the Board of Education, who will decide whether to make any changes or keep things the same.…
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