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Popeyes Louisiana Chicken wants to come to Queensbury.

A site plan review application submitted to the Queensbury Planning Board proposes a Popeyes Restaurant at 717-721 Glen Street (Route 9), next to the Dunkin’ Donuts.

The proposal calls for a 1,933 square foot restaurant with a “double drive through.”

The application proposes to demolish the two structures currently on the site. To the south, “a second hand retail store and smoke …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Last January Tom Williams and Brian Hafner reopened the closed Auction Barn Restaurant in Argyle, well aware of the challenges like high food prices and finding employees that face locally-owned restaurants in rural areas. In fact, it’s why their predecessors quit.

The recent disquieting news that the long-standing Burger Den in Cambridge closed certainly makes them think.

“When you hear about someone that’s been …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Queensbury resident Dan Stusnick says he was at the town’s Hudson Pointe Nature Preserve on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 29, to witness a rabid fisher fight through a bullet wound to attack the Department of Environmental Conservation Police Officer [ECO] who fired it.

The fisher was eventually killed by a second gunshot from responding law enforcement, but not before it had attacked four people at …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Do you remember those electronic parking “plugs” or sensors that the City of Glens Falls installed under some downtown streets in September 2022?

Wonder what happened to them?

Well, they’re up “up and functioning” — and making money for Glens Falls, city Development Director Jeff Flagg tells The Chronicle.

The sensors track when a vehicle has remained in a space beyond the designated time …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Tony DeSare, nationally touring piano vocalist and storied Hudson Falls High School valedictorian of the Class of 1996, brings his “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” show to the Strand Theater this eek end.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 15 & 16, and 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17. Tix: $30, $25 students and veterans. Box office: 832-3484 or at brownpapertickets.com.…