What’s on & what’s not

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Three major annual local events return this week after a year’s Covid hiatus.
Lake George Jazz Weekend goes full force at Shepard Park in Lake George Village, Sept. 17-19.
Americade touring motorcycle rally rolls into Lake George starting Monday, Sept. 20, through Saturday, Sept. 25.
Adirondack Balloon Festival (curtailed but still very much happening) runs Sept. 23-26.
• Warrensburg’s World’s Largest Garage Sale returns, October 1-3.
Not happening: Taste of the North Country, cancelled months ago by the Glens Falls Kiwanis Club, due not just to Covid but out of deference to the short-staffed, hard-pressed restaurants at the heart of the event. It’s next scheduled for May 2022.
Glens Falls recently cancelled its FitFest, WingFest and PetFest set for this fall.
• The Great Escape Fright Fest is back — weekends, Oct. 2 to 31. The Great Escape did cancel its Oktoberfest.
• Adirondack Thunder hockey returns to Cool Insuring Arena. First home game: Oct. 23.
• The Glens Falls Symphony
n Oct. 10 performs its first in-person indoor concert since the pandemic. They’ll perform Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” at First Presbyterian Church of Glens Falls.
• Halloween Pug and Pumpkin Party is set for Sept. 26 in Lake Luzerne.
• 25th annual Adirondack Marathon Distance Festival, Oct. 2-3 in Schroon Lake and Chestertown.
• Grandma’s Table al fresco community dinner is set for Oct. 3 on Maple Street outside the Queensbury Hotel, after being postponed from its planned August date.
• West Mountain’s Fall Festival runs two weekends, Oct. 9-10 and Oct. 16-17.
• Agricultural Stewardship Association’s Landscapes for Landsake art show and sale is Oct. 9-10 in person at Maple Farm in Coila near Cambridge, with an expanded virtual show & sale Oct. 11.
• Thurman’s Fall Farm Tour: Oct. 9.
• Adirondack Film Festival, Oct. 14-17, will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual movie screenings, says its parent Adirondack Theatre Festival.
• Up Yonda’s Halloween Trunk or Treat Festival in Bolton is on Oct. 23.
• Boo 2 You, the downtown Glens Falls Halloween Fest, is still set for Oct. 30, “pending Covid restrictions,” says the Glens Falls Collaborative.
Some cancellations
• No Great Escape Oktoberfest.
• Glens Falls Cemetery Tour, by the Chapman Historical Museum and Glens Falls Community Theatre, is cancelled.
• Slate Valley Museum’s 25th anniversary celebration set for Sept. 25 is cancelled. It was postponed from 2020.

Still on the schedule for November

• The 30th Adirondack Stampede Rodeo returns to the Cool Nov. 5 & 6.
• The Chapman Historical Museum’s Wine and Chocolate Festival is Nov. 19 at the Queensbury Hotel, with “A Finer Experience” high-end tasting at SUNY Adirondack Culinary Program’s Seasoned Restaurant a week earlier, Nov. 11.
• North Country Festival of Trees to benefit Prospect Center in Queensbury and the Center for Disability Services in Albany, returns Nov. 26-28 at the Queensbury Hotel. “Final format is still under discussion,” said the organizers.

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