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Cathy DeDe reports: A skater fell through the ice Saturday at Diamond Point on Lake George and was able to “self-rescue,” Warren County Sheriff Jim LaFarr confirmed to The Chronicle.

Sheriff LaFarr said the skaters, “entered onto the ice at Million Dollar Beach. They skated north to the area of Diamond Point and one of them, a female, fell through. She was able to self rescue.”

“All are safe, no …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

In case you haven’t been paying attention: The Glens Falls boys basketball program is really, really good right now.

That much was clear to the mostly full crowd in Hudson Falls on Friday night that watched the Black Bears dismantle the home team 87-49, snapping the Tigers’ eight game winning streak.

Further evidence of Glens Falls’s excellence is the fact that the Black Bears …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Plans to create an alpine village experience called The Woods at West Mountain were met with mostly pushback Thursday at the first formal public hearing hosted by the Queensbury Planning Board on the major planned development at the West Mountain Ski Area.

Of the 12 spoken and written comments, 11 consisted primarily of concerns about the project, which proposes 252 apartment units, 64 condominium …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Who even were all these people? The Wood Theater was sold out on Friday night for Troy Ramey, an independent country-soul-rock edged singer-songwriter and effusive storyteller who’d booked the show himself, then filled the place — overbooked by about 20 seats, even, Wood Director Emily Murphy told The Chronicle — at $45 a seat.

Mr. Ramey told The Chronicle in advance of the show, …

A website offering tickets to the February 7 Cage Wars event at the Cool Insuring Arena said it is sold out as of Tuesday.

NY-21 congressional hopeful Anthony Constantino has promoted the event, offering the tickets for free. He has said Roger Stone and retired MMA fighter Jorge Masvidal will attend.

Politics aside, Cool Insuring Arena CEO Jeff Mead said he plans to host more cagematch events like this.

“The …