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‘Taste’ by the numbers

October 4, 2018

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Some results from the Glens Falls Kiwanis Club’s 26th Taste of the North Country food festival Sunday in City Park:

Three restaurants took in more than 5,000 tickets, organizer Jerrod Ogden said. The View at Dunham’s Bay Resort, serving four items including filet medallions and diver scallops, did 5,835. Sweets by Marisa, with cupcakes and edible cookie dough, did 5,093. …

Tim Meadows was JUST so darned funny!

October 4, 2018

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

In a show whose topics ranged from parenting teenaged sons to growing up in Detroit, modern politics, sex after divorce and his abiding appreciation for “weed,” Saturday Night Live alum and comedy actor Tim Meadows was generous, sharp, and at the best of times a wildly spontaneous stand-up comedian Saturday night at the Wood Theater.

Clearly he’d been warned that it’s GlenS Falls, with …

Birding in Borneo

October 4, 2018

Editor’s note: Founding Chronicle staff member Joyce Miller, who is now Distinguished Professor of Library Science at SUNY Adirondack, is an ardent international bird-watcher. This summer she went to Borneo in Southeast Asia and provided this report. (Joyce was The Chronicle’s first Arts Editor, among many responsibilities here over many years.)

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By Joyce Miller, Special to The Chronicle

Vine-tangled jungles, ferocious blood-sucking leeches, rare orangutans and maybe …

In praise of Rene and Jane! Wood benefit honorees

October 4, 2018

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Friday evening, the Wood Theater will have its annual fund-raiser — billed as a party, not gala, semi-casual, for the second year a multi-station exploration of all things Manhattan, from food to different kinds of entertainment ranging throughout the facility.

There’s no formal program so far as I’m aware, but guests of honor are sisters Rene Clements and Jane Gibbs.

It’s about time.

Rene …