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By Dan Ladd, Chronicle Outdoors Editor

Once again the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing a number of fishing regulations. Allowing anglers to once again harvest rainbow smelt in Lake George is one of them.

Those with fond memories of springtime “dipping” for smelt with nets in tributaries should not get too excited. The proposal would only allow anglers to jig for them during an established open …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Otto Miller, the 18-year-old Queensbury High grad paralyzed from the waist down in a fall from a third-story roof in Maryland, is now at the Shepherd Center spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation facility in Atlanta.

And he’s nothing but upbeat — and inspirational to the people around him.

“I’m doing great!” Otto told The Chronicle via Facebook. “The rehab center is very nice. …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Chef and Queensbury grad Jonathan Greenwood has purchased Massie’s, the venerable Italian restaurant at 69 Main Street run by the Russo family since 1929.

“We’re giving it a little bit of a facelift now, and will reopen on Friday, Jan. 29, at 4:30 p.m., for dinner,” said Mr. Greenwood, 31, when interviewed on Tuesday morning.

“It will stay Massie’s,” Mr. Greenwood said. “It’s got …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Something new for Hacksaw Jim Duggan: The WWE pro wrestling Hall-of-Famer and Glens Falls High School football great is now touring with a one-man stand-up comedy show.

On February 2, Hacksaw — still “Moose” Duggan to locals who grew up with him in the 1960s and ’70s — opens his latest tour of the Northeast with a hometown show at Sweet Basil Comedy Club …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Rocco Ientile, who owned Rocco’s Pizza shops in Fort Edward, Queensbury and Corinth, will open Rocco’s Italian-American Bistro at 132 Glen Street in downtown Glens Falls.

Mr. Ientile said he paid $225,000 for the building that formerly housed Kevin and Patty Bethel’s 132 Glen Bistro. There are also two rented apartments upstairs, he said.

He said he hopes to open the restaurant by the …