Chronicle staff writer Ben Westcott reports: On Monday, the Hudson Falls Planning Board unanimously approved Belinda McPhee’s request to open a cannabis dispensary called High Society Dispensary in place of McPhee’s Candy Shop and More at 345 Main St. in Hudson Falls, in the Hudson Falls Shopping Plaza.
High Society Dispensary would be the first cannabis dispensary in Washington County. Currently, the closest registered dispensaries for recreational marijuana are in …
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SUNY Adirondack President Kristine Duffy said the college is working with Local 773 of the Plumbers and Steamfitters and others to develop a proposal for the college’s first short-term program to teach students the skills necessary to enter union heating, ventilation and air conditioning apprentice programs.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, is championing legislation to expand the federal Pell grant college program to …
Read More »Popeyes Louisiana Chicken wants to come to Queensbury.
A site plan review application submitted to the Queensbury Planning Board proposes a Popeyes Restaurant at 717-721 Glen Street (Route 9), next to the Dunkin’ Donuts.
The proposal calls for a 1,933 square foot restaurant with a “double drive through.”
The application proposes to demolish the two structures currently on the site. To the south, “a second hand retail store and smoke …
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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer
Last January Tom Williams and Brian Hafner reopened the closed Auction Barn Restaurant in Argyle, well aware of the challenges like high food prices and finding employees that face locally-owned restaurants in rural areas. In fact, it’s why their predecessors quit.
The recent disquieting news that the long-standing Burger Den in Cambridge closed certainly makes them think.
“When you hear about someone that’s been …
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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer
Queensbury resident Dan Stusnick says he was at the town’s Hudson Pointe Nature Preserve on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 29, to witness a rabid fisher fight through a bullet wound to attack the Department of Environmental Conservation Police Officer [ECO] who fired it.
The fisher was eventually killed by a second gunshot from responding law enforcement, but not before it had attacked four people at …
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