Sunday, December 22, 2024

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Lake George seen as never before

By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Jefferson Project has taken its next major step — creation of a 2,000 square-foot Data Visualization Laboratory at the Darrin Fresh Water Institute in Bolton.

“Things no human has seen before” will become visible there, IBM senior vice-president Dr. John E. Kelly III said at the project’s public unveiling on Oct. 17.

The lab “may seem like a modest building, but there are …

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Why I’m for Funiciello

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Why would I vote for Green Party nominee Matt Funiciello for Congress when his outspokenly progressive left positions are usually at odds with my deeply felt conservatism?

Because for me, it’s often about people more than politics. I’ve known Matt a long time. I respect him. I’ve found him to be tolerant (at least with me), and I think he has a depth and uniquenesss …

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‘The Chronicle Reader’

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

I am very excited to announce the imminent publication of The Chronicle Reader, the first-ever Chronicle book. By that I mean, this book isn’t my book, as PermaFrost was in 1986, or my wife Sandra Hutchinson’s book, as Jumping Off Cliffs was in 2007.

This book, “The Year’s Best from The Chronicle weekly newspaper in Glens Falls, New York, 2013-2014,” is 284 pages comprising the …

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NBC report sounds alarm on synthetic turf fields; GF has that kind

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

An Oct. 9 NBC News report citing health concerns from playing sports on synthetic crumb rubber fields prompted Glens Falls resident John Fair to again question the safety of Glens Falls High School’s Putt LaMay Field.

“I’m not here to puff my chest out and tell you I told you so,” Mr. Fair told the Glens Falls City School Board of Education Monday night. …

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Group must raise quick $940,000 or someone else might get to buy Camp Little Notch

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The Friends of Camp Little Notch in West Fort Ann needs to raise $940,000 by Jan. 9, 2015, or risk losing the 443-acre girls summer camp.

“We are attempting to secure a $500,000 loan from the Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region, and we feel optimistic we will get the loan,” said board president Jo Lum on a Tuesday morning conference call with …

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