A Thai couple have transformed the vintage former Sam’s Diner at 23 Dix Avenue in Glens Falls into Sweet Rice Thai Sushi. It opened on November 4.
Wife and husband owners Ae Siraroj and Ake Pholsamak did the renovations themselves over three months. They repainted the walls, re-did the floor and counter, and even built the tables.
Ms. Siraroj said they offer items either new or rare locally — including …
Read More »By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
I attended Friday’s monthly meeting of the Warren County Board of Supervisors. What emerged then and in the days thereafter was more than I bargained for.
The board approved the 2023 budget, rebuffing two attempts to table it by supervisors who wanted the whole board and the public to take a fresh look.
But the budget was upstaged by word that new County Tourism …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe. Chronicle Managing Editor
Hundreds of Johnsburg taxpayers are objecting to the new property valuations in the town’s first reassessment since 1953, almost 70 years.
More than 250 have made appointments for initial 10-minute informal grievance meetings, Town Assessor Letitia Williams tells The Chronicle.
Letters with preliminary assessments went out in mid-February.
A group calling itself Town of Johns-burg Concerned Citizens has 247 members on Facebook, and posts …
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By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer
Hartford Supervisor Dana Haff alerted The Chronicle to Barbara Klaiber, his friend and classmate (Hartford Central School Class of 1978) who in 1998 with Jane Hyatt founded and operates an orphanage in Kyiv, Ukraine.
As of Monday, Ms. Klaiber reported that the she was situated in a bomb shelter with the children and staff of the orphanage. Tuesday morning Ms. Klaiber posted on Facebook, …
Read More »By Mark Frost & Zander Frost, Chronicle Editor & Staff Writer
Councilwoman Jane Havens has resigned from the Kingsbury Town Board effective November 30, because she says a town law — Chapter 136 — banning guns on town property conflicts with her personal protection and infringes the public’s constitutional rights.
“I refuse to give up my right to carry” a gun, Mrs. Havens told The Chronicle. “I took an oath …
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