John and Carol McClean-Wright, New Mexico residents who owned the 1000 Acres dude ranch in Stony Creek from 2016 to 2019, bought the 30-mile rail line from North Creek to Tahawus for $3.3-million in a bankruptcy auction.
The Albany Times-Union reported on March 3 that the couple’s Doc N Duchess Rails LLC “want to ship military-grade titanium ore from an old mine in the area” that they say “they are …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
The Lake George Park Commission is laying the regulatory groundwork for a rolling septic inspection program that would require private systems around the lake to be checked by Park Commission inspectors every five years.
Dave Wick, Executive Director of the LGPC, said 2,700 properties fall inside the proposed boundaries — within 500 feet of the Lake George shoreline or within 100 feet of streams …
Read More »By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
Anthony Merrill emailed to say he works at the Fort William Henry. He offered to connect us with Ukranians he worked with there in past summers.
On Monday we spoke via Zoom with Nikita Nakonechny, who said he worked summers for the Fort William Henry in 2014 and 2015.
Mark: How are you?
Nikita: Good as possible for now. You understand, probably.
Mark: How scary …
Read More »By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer
Real estate investing is “in” for these two local 20-somethings.
Joey Lufkin, Argyle class of 2013, was 23 when he bought his first apartment property in Utica. “When I was a senior in college [at Hartwick] I lived off campus in Oneonta in a guy’s house and there were six of us and we each paid $3,000 a semester. I started adding up the …
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By Sandra Hutchinson, Chronicle Assistant Publisher
Nettle Meadow Farm & Artisan Cheese is now making all its cheeses in Lake Luzerne, at the classic log Hitching Post building that it bought in 2020 and spent two years renovating.
Sheila Flanagan and Lorraine Lambiase have operated Nettle Meadow in Thurman in the mountains of northwest Warren County since 2005, when they quit legal careers in California to buy the then 50-acre …
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