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Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe advises:

• • My Number One suggestion: Get to the airport for a morning launch. Yes, it’s painfully early, and the cars are lined up by 4:30 a.m., well before the gates open, but there’s nothing like the excitement of 100 hot air balloons rising with the sun while bleary-eyed thousands cheer them on.

t Sunday morning is “Walter’s Mass Ascension,” when all the balloons go up …

By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff

“When your pager goes off, it’s part of the thrill of it.…You simply never know what’s coming next,” said Todd Mahony, President of the North Queensbury Volunteer Fire Company and member of the Rescue Squad’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Mahony has been a member of the Company for 20 years and joined after he retired from his business career.

“I regret that I didn’t …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

A woman driving alone returning from a trip visiting grandchildren was swarmed Friday, Sept. 15, by “75-100” bike riders on Veterans Road in Queensbury. Her car was damaged and she said she was terrified.

She took video of the incident. It was shared with The Chronicle.

It shows bike riders filled both sides of the road and aggressively confronted — and some collided with …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

There’s fresh hope that travel between Glens Falls and Hudson Falls will return to normal next month.

The Chronicle received numerous calls asking why work on the Route 254 project on Lower Warren and River Streets in Queensbury seemed to have stalled and the road remains closed since March, inconveniencing many and hampering several businesses.

We contacted the State Department of Transportation, which said …

By Maury Thompson, Chronicle Freelance

The Open Door mission at 226 Warren Street in Glens Falls has reversed plans and will provide “Code Blue” shelter services this winter and going forward.

“The winter months, you need that safety to get in out of the cold,” Jamie Munyon, executive director of The Open Door, told The Chronicle Monday.

With renovation of the third floor completed, he said it will be possible …