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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, …

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 …

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.

City …

By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer

Nearly 400 people attended last Saturday’s Lyme disease forum at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury. They heard elected officials and experts in the field provide both good news and bad news about Lyme disease and other tickborne pathogens.

“Tickborne diseases are wreaking havoc on people’s lives,” with more than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease each year, and “a significant percentage [who] fail to fully …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Entrepreneur Ash Anand said he is under contract to buy the Grist Mill restaurant and the adjacent barn on River Street in Warrensburg, adding to his growing Lotus Group of Companies.

“We have applied for a liquor license and will be closing [on the purchase] in less than two weeks,” Mr. Anand, 37, told The Chronicle.

“It will remain exactly the same, but we …