By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Russell Wallack has a mission — “to build the organic chestnut industry to a watershed scale in the Northeast.”
Breadtree Farms LLC, created by Mr. Wallack in 2019 in Greenwich, just received a $1,957,328 USDA Organic Market Development grant toward establishing a $2,777,000 chestnut facility at the former Atwater Farm in Salem.
The chestnut trees are already being grown in Greenwich and Granville.
Breadtree …
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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer
Quebec-based Boralex, whose U.S. headquarters are in South Glens Falls, held an open house Thursday, April 18, at the Durkeetown Church in Fort Edward to allow the public to gather information about its proposed 100 MW photovoltaic solar energy generation facility.
The open house was well attended,
The solar project would be built on 750 acres in rural Fort Edward bounded on the north …
Read More »By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Reporter
At Tuesday night’s Glens Falls Common Council meeting, 3rd Ward Councilwoman Diana Palmer presented a draft flag policy for the city. Members of the public spoke at the meeting on various sides of the issue. No vote was taken.
The draft policy would allow, in addition to the U.S., state, and city flags, at the direction of the mayor or Common Council, the following flags …
Read More »By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
One of our biggest responses ever to the question we posed on April 18 to Chronicle digital subscribers: Do you support or oppose flying a Pride flag on Glens Falls’s City Hall flagpole? Why?
By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
After two years of repairs and renovation, Mario DiSiena says, “We’re ready to go” with his restaurant on Route 9 where most recently Farmstead Flatbread operated at the former Sutton’s Market Place.
The 174-seat “Uncle Mario’s Garage” is on the agendas next week of the Queensbury Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals.
Mr. DiSiena said he grew up next to his family’s now-defunct …
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