By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Rob Girard is the new varsity boys’ basketball coach at Glens Falls High School. He suucceeds Tony Hammel, who coached the team for 25 years and is retiring from teaching next June. Girard’s appointment was approved 9-0 by the Board of Education at its Aug. 10 meeting. He will earn $6,056 for the season. He works for the City’s Department of Public Works.
Girard, …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Joseph Sheehan, 46, remained in critical condition Tuesday morning at Westchester Medical Center in the aftermath of the explosion just before 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, that destroyed a 28-foot Chaparral boat at the dock at Fischer’s Marina on the east shore of Lake George.
Mr. Sheehan, 46, of Manhattan was severely burned in the accident. He had brought the boat in for …
Read More »Glens Falls physician Dr. William Tedesco has embarked this week on a 500-mile walk in Spain to benefit The House of Grace and High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care.
A press release from High Peaks Hospice explains: “To kick off his retirement, Dr. William Tedesco intends to walk the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain, a trek known as the Way of St. James.
“To give purpose to his undertaking, …
Read More »By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
A seventh generation descendant of Glens Falls founder Abraham Wing has donated a trove of family documents — including many in Wing’s own handwriting — to the Hill Collection at SUNY Adirondack college library in Queensbury.
The heir, Kit Cornell, worked with Paul McCarty, executive director of the Fort Edward Historical
Association, in making the gift.
It has documents dating as early as 1717. One …
Read More »By G. Woodworth & Cathy DeDe, News Editor & Managing Editor
JMZ, the Glens Falls architect and planning firm, is buying the historic B.B. Fowler building at 190 Glen Street, from Flow Communications, whose Saratoga-based owner Bud Wolf bought and redeveloped the building 15 years ago.
The closing is scheduled “on or about Sept. 1,” JMZ president Tenée Casaccio told The Chronicle Tuesday. She wouldn’t disclose the purchase price.
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