Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Ed Deso

Our August 3 front page

Real Estate! Opens an auction house in South Glens Falls. The Greyhound stops here. LG native’s thriving biz: Makes jewelry of Barbie doll parts. SUNY Adk’s course on cannabis. Bonacio wants to team South Street Phases 1 & 2; denies project is stalled; ‘we are moving forward’. Qby. School’s first inductees into Athletics Hall of Fame. Lumberjack festival in Stony Creek. Don Felder — of the Eagles! plays Sunday at …

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Sees good, bad in new LG winter attraction

Greetings Chronicle –

In a response to the article “Winter Phenom…” in your recent edition.

I will assume that most of the players in this project will see the futility of attracting tourists to a “contrived attraction.”

The original light trail produced by Moment Factory was constructed in Parc de la Gorge, Coaticook, Quebec in 2014 and called Foresta Lumina. This created a “Tourism Tsunami” — the little town of …

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After 43 summers, family’s sad farewell to LG’s Canoe Island Lodge

To the Editor:

In August of 1980 a young married couple were looking for a place to vacation with their daughters. As luck would have it they stumbled across a family-run resort on beautiful Lake George and decided to stay the week.

Taken by the hospitality of Jane and Bill Busch, the history of the property, the beauty of the lake, the simplicity of the lodge, and all of the …

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‘Best job I ever had’

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Last Thursday’s Q&A we posed to our digital subscribers was: What’s the best job you ever had?

Mailboat on Maine coast

Delivering the mail via our mailboat to islands off the mid-Maine coast
— Connie & Tom Rood
Sabael, NY (Hamilton County)

Tour boat on St. Lawrence


My best one was my first one. For 3 Summers when I was in high school, …

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We’ll always be Spartans! says Queensbury School

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Rumors that Queensbury School was reconsidering its “Spartans” team name are simply not true, says district superintendent Kyle Gannon.

“We’re still the Spartans through and through,” Mr. Gannon replied to a Chronicle inquiry.

“It’s ‘Spartans’ in the end zone of our new turf field.

“It’s ‘Spartans’ on the wall of the Blue Gym.

“We just redid the pool and the pool says ‘Home of …

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