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By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

So here is some of my upbeat takeaway from the celebration Friday at Flomatic Valves on Pruyn’s Island in Glens Falls.

They were celebrating the company’s 85th anniversary and its $3.3-million, 20,000 square foot plant expansion (with thanks clearly expressed to New York State Economic Development for funding $660,000 of the project). Bo Andersson — Flomatic’s CEO since 1979 — was winning and quirky as …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

I met Patricia Maddock in February 1981 when she applied for a job at The Chronicle as we were on the verge of going out of business. We’d suspended publication after Valentine’s Day, out of money and out of hope, six months after we launched the paper on a $1,700 wing and a prayer. For six weeks we didn’t publish anything.

Then Patricia and our …

Ed Davis, long-time Glens Falls High School boys’ basketball coach and physical education teacher, died on Tuesday, June 18, in Tennessee. He was 88.

Calling hours at Singleton Sullivan Potter Funeral Home in Queensbury are Friday, July 12, 5 to 7 p.m., and Saturday, July 13, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Funeral service is Saturday, July 13, at noon, at the funeral home. Interment with military honors will follow at …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The water level on Lake George is near flood stage from June rains. It’s made it difficult for boats to get under bridges, and water nears the tops of docks.

“We had several boats pull into our marina who had gone out earlier in the week under the Dunham’s Bay Bridge and could no longer get back to their dock space. One who tried …

By Patrick Daley, Chronicle Staff Writer

Natascha Pearl-Mansman, owner of Darling Doughnuts, says, “It took me six months to sell my first 1,000 doughnuts. Now I sell 1,000 each week.”

The 32-year-old Glens Falls native graduated from Simmons College where she studied studio art and philosophy — “the most unhireable degree,” she calls it.

Now she rents the commercial kitchen at Temple Beth El in Glens Falls and sells her …