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Glens Falls Hospital’s new Crisis Unit aims to better serve mental health patients young & adult

A man wearing glasses and a blue badge stands in a modern office space with collaborative seating and other people in the background.

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

We’ve heard the stories, especially since COVID, of patients in mental health crisis languishing for weeks in the Emergency Department at Glens Falls Hospital — especially young people, even children, who had nowhere else to go for treatment.

The former Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU), may have had private rooms, not just curtains between beds, but offered limited care, the Hospital decided.

One young patient …

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3 movie makers from South Glens Falls share in Anora Oscar win

Man in tuxedo holding a gold Oscar statuette at an awards ceremony.

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: When indie film ‘Anora’ swept the Oscars on Sunday, three South Glens Falls natives basked in the glow.

Brothers Stephen Phelps and Christopher Phelps and lifelong friend Ryan Fitzgerald worked on the film.

Anora won Best Picture, Best Actress for Mikey Madison, and filmmaker Sean Baker won Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing.

Stephen, Anora’s Production Designer, was at the Academy Awards and …

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Our March 6 front page

Scanned front page of The Chronicle newspaper from March 6-12, 2025, featuring articles about a hospital crisis unit, vaping incident, and high school dance.

Insurance & Investing Issue 48th South High Marathon Dance. Messy House & Dango’s. GF Hospital’s new Crisis Unit aims to better serve mental health patients young & adult. Stewart’s sets 3-carton egg purchase limit. ‘Stop vaping at the Wood’ Plan takes shape to move Farmers Market pavilion to Eric Unkauf’s Shirt Factory. 8,000 striking prison guards still defy Hochul & mediator, face immediate firing. Hickory Ski will open for season …

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Adk. United wins state title again

A hockey team in white jerseys celebrates with a championship banner while holding the trophy.

Last year the Adirondack United girls hockey team went undefeated in winning the state championship. This year they lost five games, but the end result Saturday was the same: state championship.

In Friday night’s semi-final at the Nexus Center in Utica, Lillian Willis scored with 28 seconds left in regulation to defeat Beekmantown, 1-0.

In Saturday’s final United toppled undefeated Skaneateles 3-1, reversing a 3-1 loss to Skaneateles last month.…

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Blake Gendebien, Democrats’ pick for Congress, spoke in Hudson Falls

Two men have a conversation indoors, with one wearing a blue shirt and tan pants gesturing while speaking to the other.

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Blake Gendebien, the Democratic candidate for the upcoming NY-21 Congressional special election, spoke to a packed 5th floor of the Sandy Hill Arts Center in Hudson Falls at a meet and greet Sunday.

He introduced himself as “a family man, a dairy farmer, a father and a small business owner born and raised in Lisbon, New York, in the district,” adding, “I love this …

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