Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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FA’s Camp Little Notch raising funds, optimistic on refinancing its mortgage

By Caroline Martindale, Chronicle Staff Writer

Camp Little Notch in West Fort Ann says it is making headway toward its $300,000 fundraising goal to meet an April mortgage deadline — and that local businesses are helping in other ways too.

The former Girl Scout summer camp, established in 1939, was purchased 15 years ago and privatized by the Friends of Camp Little Notch.

“It was a group of former campers …

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2nd meeting on West Mountain project: More public pro & con

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The five-phase proposal to create an alpine village experience called The Woods at West Mountain over a period of about a decade came before the Queensbury Planning Board for a second time Thursday.

While no action was taken, the public weighed in, some commending the project, others expressing concerns about it.

“We need to support our town’s only ski resort so it can continue …

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‘Rent’ at the Wood: They’re fearless, thank our lucky stars

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe opines: Fearless, fully committed, saucy — the young adults of Glens Falls have taken over the stage and made it SING with their true-to-heart production of the Jonathan Larson musical Rent. It opened last weekend and continues this week at the Wood Theater in downtown.

Urban, gritty, soul-wrecking, loving, exuberant and flipped-out. It’s righteously bold, and bawdy — be warned — as is well and …

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Big crowd in Lake George for Robert Rogers talk

“Author Martin Klotz Discusses Robert Rogers before a Packed House at Lake George,” reported the Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance.

The press release said, “Martin Klotz, author of the new and highly acclaimed book Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon (Westholme Publishing, 2024), spoke on the accomplishments and some of the more outrageous behavior of his subject on Saturday (February 1) before a standing-room-only crowd …

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Glens Falls boys swimming wins Section II title

Glens Falls High School’s boys swim team won the Section II Division II championship Saturday at Shenendehowa High School for the first time since 2020. The Black Bears finished with 432 points, comfortably ahead of second place Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk-Greenville’s 300.

“We’re very happy,” Head Coach Kevin Crossman told The Chronicle. “It’s been a few years since we’ve won it, so it felt good to have a title back. We’ve been finishing …

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