Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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Adk. Magic adding more youth travel softball teams

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The Adirondack Magic girls’ softball program is growing, adding two and possibly three youth travel teams by the fall.

Jesse Hayes, along with his wife Megan and what he describes as “many dedicated parents,” helped start the Magic’s 8U (8 and under) team last fall because “there was nothing else out there. There were no other 8U travel teams.”

His daughter Haylee is one …

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Newest LG peril: Fishhook waterflea

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Fishhook waterfleas have infested Lake Champlain and are seen as a threat to Lake George.

“To hear that fishhook waterfleas are abundant in Lake Champlain is a reason to get on high alert,” Roger Smith said in response to a Chronicle query. He oversees the Lake George Park Commission’s mandatory boat inspection program.

The Lake Champlain Basin Program issued an alert late last week …

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David Britton of GF is chef at Siro’s, Saratoga

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Glens Falls’s David Britton is the new executive chef at Siro’s Restaurant, a centerpiece of the Saratoga Race Course season.

As reported by Steve Barnes in the Albany Times Union, Siro’s was sold last week to SPS and JLS Family Partnerships, which two years ago purchased Shepard’s Cove Restaurant and turned it into the Lake George Beach Club in Lake George Village.

Mr. Britton …

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Bob Conner’s nifty novel The Last Circle of Ulysses Grant

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

My journalist friend Bob Conner has written his first novel, The Last Circle of Ulysses Grant, about the life and last days of Ulysses S. Grant. I bought it last fall at our Chronicle Book Fair, and I’m writing now at long last to tell you it’s a really good, really informative read.

It’s also what propelled me to Mount McGregor last Sunday (see page …

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Grant Cottage State Historic Site atop Mount McGregor in Wilton: It’s a must-see!

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Ulysses S. Grant spent the final 36 days of his life at a cottage on top of a mountain, Mount McGregor, in Wilton between Saratoga Springs and South Glens Falls.

He was dying of throat cancer — and on a mission to finish volume two of his memoir, not just to detail for posterity how his Union Army won the Civil War but to provide …

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