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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The past winter’s Ice Castle event [officially, Winter Realms] did “a significant amount of damage” to the Festival Space at Charles Wood Park in Lake George, County Superintendent of Public Works Kevin Hajos told the Friday, April 26, meeting of the Facilities Committee. He distributed pictures.

“I don’t have the cost yet but I can tell you we had to put 176 hours of …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: What I most appreciate about this community is when we are naturally inclusive, just fact of life.

Take the stage: Age two or 92, Broadway-bound or bound by circumstance, there’s opportunity to be in a show.

Andy O’Rourke — intrepid, dogged, dynamic and ambitious — adds yet another option with his All Abilities Productions theater company.

“Our mission,” says the All Abilities creed, “is …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Glens Falls

The Sagamore Resort plans three new projects in Bolton Landing on property already owned by the Sagamore.

• On-site seasonal employee housing, 53 units with two beds each in a three-story dormitory-style building at the center of the main Sagamore’s Green Island property. Kitchens and lounges on each floor.

• A two-story mixed use building on Lake Shore Drive, in downtown Bolton, in the …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office has a new piece of technology that helps its officers train like never before.

The Multiple Interactive Learning Objectives Range Pro Interactive Force Simulator, acquired in February, can virtually put officers in thousands of scenarios they might encounter in their job, so they can practice reacting to situations.

Some of the situations are very dangerous, like responding to an …

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 …