By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Lake George Village will celebrate its new amphitheatre in Shepard Park this Friday, July 17. The public is welcome for tours beginning at 11 a.m. There will be a ribbon-cutting.

Music begins at noon, with The Stony Creek Band, Blue Moon Band, The Switch, Jonathan Newell and Rich Ortiz.

At 6:30 p.m., this week’s Fridays at the Lake show has Blues House Rockers opening …

The Chronicle’s Ben Westcott writes: Brayden Dock, the Glens Falls grad who will be entering his junior year at Colgate, finished sixth in the New York State Golf Association Men’s Amateur at Glens Falls Country Club in Queensbury Thursday.

Dock, 19, shot two over par through four rounds, 12 strokes off the pace of champion Matthew Lowe, a 30-year-old former pro from Farmingdale.

“I was very satisfied,” he told The …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Russ Barber, our friend and the Kinderhook balloonist we sponsored for more than three decades at the Adirondack Balloon Festival, passed away on Monday at the age of 93. (Russ always seemed to me many years younger than his actual age.)

Russ was a cornerstone of the Adirondack Balloon Festival — and of hot-air ballooning overall.

So many balloonists learned how to fly from him …

The 17th annual Carl Lufkin Memorial Pull for a Cure truck and tractor pull to benefit cancer research is Saturday, July 18, beginning at 10 a.m. at 10 Main Street in Argyle.

“We have a new and improved night show we are hoping to get a large audience for,” co-organizer Cheyenne Havens tells The Chronicle.

Spectator admission is $15, free for under 10. Proceeds benefit The Cancer Research Institute, St. …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Crandall Park Beautification Committee is raising funds to construct “The Pathway,” a new accessible path running through the park from its Horicon Avenue entrance to Fire Road.

It will include a bridge over wetlands behind the Crandall Park pond.

The Pathway will be a safe route “for pedestrians, bicyclists and people using strollers, wheelchairs or other vehicles designed to make transportation for disabled …