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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Hebron Town Supervisor Brian Campbell reached out to The Chronicle to sound an alarm on the eve of Washington County budget talks.

Mr. Campbell, who is the Board of Supervisors’ Finance Chair, warns, “If we do nothing,” residents face a property tax increase of at least 10 percent or even 11 percent in 2026.

He says the primary driver is 2024 Department of Social …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

P.J. Ferguson played the concert of the century Friday night, Sept. 5. at the Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls.

Strand founder and genius Jonathan Newell can throw in the towel now.

It won’t get better than what we experienced when Whitehall native turned Nashville frontman P.J. Ferguson brought his Tennessee Strange Band for a Washington County-stretching homecoming everyone will remember.

P.J. had the crowd …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Colby Jones Brown, 39, a Lake George mother of two and relief veterinarian at Glens Falls Animal Hospital, Moreau Animal Hospital, and Hometown Mobile Veterinary Practice, became the 15th person ever to swim the length of Lake George over Labor Day weekend.

She finished the 32-mile swim from Diane’s Rock on the lake’s north end to the public docks in Lake George Village at …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Glens Falls will get a second legal cannabis dispensary, in the little Broad Street Shopping Center just before the Hudson Avenue intersection.

Holly Harris’s Windy Hill Wellness was approved by the Glens Falls Planning Board Wednesday.

It will be Ms. Harris’s second dispensary. She’s been operating one in Greenwich since October 2024.

“I definitely think Glens Falls is going to be much higher traffic …

Chronicle Managing Editor

Time to get your “Vroom” on!

The Albany Rods & Kustoms Club’s 35th annual Adirondack Nationals car show returns to Lake George Village this weekend, while the Adirondack Corvette Club’s annual VetteFest is back in downtown Glens Falls.

“One show, 1,500 cars, 236-plus vendors,” is how Adirondack Nationals touts itself. It showcases colorful, souped up, reconditioned hot rods, classic and antique cars from 1979 or earlier, on …