By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

On the first Saturday of August, I rowed in The Great Brant Lake Canoe Race, a six-mile paddle starting at Hoyt’s Beach on the lake’s north end and finishing on Mill Pond at the lake’s south end.

It was my first time seriously paddling a canoe over any considerable stretch of water. I remarked to some fellow paddlers pre-race that it would be a …

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By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Julie (Hart) Murphy, the third-generation of the local Hart pizza-making family, plans to move her Queen of Harts Pizza across Lafayette Street to a larger space in the Noon Whistle Deli building.

“We officially bought it in April,” said Julie, adding that she may be the last Hart family member making pizza. “I’m the last standing one in the game.”

The Harts started what …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Planning Board was to consider at its Aug. 6 meeting site plan review for a renovation, addition and townhouse project at 196 Ridge Street by the Snyder family that owns Snyder Drywall in Moreau. They plan six apartments and six new townhouses on the 1.135-acre parcel at the corner of Ridge and William Streets.

• The existing two-story Victorian brick building, built