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Blue Öyster Cult to play in LG at ‘Festival for Lake,’ 9/24

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Blue Öyster Cult, the 1970s hard rock band whose classics include “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” “Godzilla” and “Burnin’ for You,” will headline opening day of the outdoor American Music Festival for the Lake at the Charles R. Wood Park in Lake George on Saturday, Sept. 24.

Last year’s festival drew huge crowds for headliner Sawyer Fredericks, the Capital Region-bred winner of TV’s The Voice …

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Rich Schermerhorn: Why I’m for Trump

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Queensbury developer Rich Schermerhorn is a huge Donald Trump supporter.

“My wife and I and a good buddy flew over to New Hampshire after he won the primary back in February,” Mr. Schermerhorn said Tuesday at the site of his 116-unit Harris-on Quarry project under construction in Moreau.

“We went to the victory party, and I had a photo taken of me in front …

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Medical marijuana legal but so hard to come by

Parents of Qby. girl, 11, call it ‘a miracle’ but struggled to find doctor to prescribe.

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Eleven-year-old Allison Hoffer of Queensbury suffers from Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), a type of epilepsy that causes hard-to-treat seizures and often impairs development.

Her mother Ellen says that up until a few weeks ago, Allison was non-verbal, had up to 180 seizures a day and had a three-year-old’s level …

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Otto Miller is coming home

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

“All is good and I feel great,” Otto Miller said from a transitional house next to the Shepherd Center spinal cord rehabilitation center in Atlanta as he prepares to return on Friday, April 8, to his family’s Queensbury home newly retrofitted by a group of volunteers to accommodate him.

The 18-year-old severed his spinal cord in a Jan. 26 fall from a roof while …

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ACC sets underwater CSI

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Rich Morin, who owns Rich Morin’s Professional Scuba Centers in Glens Falls, will teach underwater Crime Scene Investigation in a pioneering 10-week course this summer at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury.

The course, not yet for credit, is geared to any student in the 64-school SUNY system and to criminal justice majors at other colleges and universities. It will run five days a week from …

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