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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Despite strong opposition from public commenters, Warren County supervisors and their county administrator at the sales tax workshop meeting on Aug. 14 appeared to view it as inevitable they’ll raise the sales tax from 7% to 8%.

Some asked whether raising it from 7% to 7.5% would suffice. Some offered additional revenue-enhancing suggestions.

But most if not all of the Supervisors seemed to agree …

By Ben Westcott & Cathy DeDe

Developer Rich Schermerhorn seeks to build a mixed-use project with 296 apartments in 37 two-story, eight-unit buildings on just under 33 acres at 1345 Route 9 in the Town of Moreau.

It’s on a narrow property stretching from just east of the Saratoga Olive Oil Company on Route 9 to the Northway.

The plan includes a commercial pad “for future development,” said the application. …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Glens Falls native Amy (Troelstra) Meijer is now Mrs. Glens Falls and hopes next June to become Mrs. New York.

The 2004 Glens Falls High graduate is the daughter of Frank and Becky Troelstra, who own Garden Time and The Silo in Queensbury.

Amy, her engineer husband Lodewiek and their two children just moved back to Glens Falls from Oregon.

That’s where her involvement in …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Contacted by The Chronicle, Glens Falls Mayor Bill Collins spoke positively of Chris Patten’s proposed Washington Square 60-apartment project, though he pushed back on the developer’s characterization of the building at 391 Glen Street as “condemnable.”

“They’re not condemnable,” Mayor Collins said. “If they were condemnable we would have condemned them.”

But the mayor added, “I don’t know if anybody would invest in that …

Ward 3 Councilwoman Diana Palmer submitted the following essay:

In the last week, I have received countless messages from constituents and stakeholders with opinions about Patton Property Development’s new proposed project on Glen Street.

People ask, “Do we want to be tearing down homes to build apartments?” “What about preserving history?” “Why only one bedrooms’ that are going to be expensive?”

Others say, “We do need housing” or “This …