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“I’ll give you the thumbs up,” Rita Sweenor said in posing for this photo Monday evening, five days after a rabid coyote ripped open her scalp, face, arms and legs. How is she doing? “I’m a positive person…I have a lot of recovery to do. Will I have scars? I don’t care. I am who I am. I survived.” Chronicle photo/Gordon Woodworth

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

“It …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Two Chronicle readers have contacted us in recent days aiming to alert people to separate hazards they’ve come across on Lake George.

At Sandy Bay, a shallow, very popular spot for boats to moor and people to frolic, the concern is the sharp strands at the end of the steel cable that holds the mooring buoy in place.

At Isom Bay, up the lake’s east …

Already operates Bogey’s at Bay Meadows & owns Kingsbury National

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Deric Buck, who operates Bogey’s at Bay Meadows and last year purchased Kingsbury National Golf Club, has taken over the former Blue Moose restaurant property on Route 9, just north of the Great Escape, on a lease-to-own agreement.

“We hope to open after Labor Day and before October,” Mr. Buck, 40, said when contacted …

Exclusive provider for private events, including rooftop

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Mazzone Catering — the Capital Region’s highest-profile restaurateur and events caterer — has become the exclusive provider for private events at the Courtyard Marriott in Lake George.

The deal was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting and catered function last Thursday at the Marriott, newly built by Lake George developer Dave Kenny and his partners.

Angelo Mazzone, Mazzone Catering’s 64-year-old …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

“Knock, Knock,” she says — but it’s anyone’s guess whether he’ll ever open.

The Adirondack Theatre Festival invited this observer to sit in for a sneak look at rehearsal for its new musical, The Boy in the Bathroom.

The show was to have opened yesterday, July 26. With our weekly Chronicle schedule, we’ll not get to publish anything about the finished production until the …