Winter Home Issue Paul Jenkins, Chip Corlew, on retiring. Horse barn to artist studio. Brutal best game ever? Paddled the length of Lake George, monthly for a year. Local effort to settle Afghan family here. Skating opens at GF Crandall Park pond; lights to 10 p.m. Zander: I invaded the Ice Castle. Sembrich nears its 100th year: Renews classic light fixtures. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s …

To the Editor:

Hey, I’m a sexual assault survivor of Peter Drutchal who used to own the W.I.L.D./W.A.T.E.R.S. in Warrensburg. I’m trying to get my story out in that community/area, as there are no doubt many survivors from his time there. I’ve been contacted by a few people who were victims/survivors from VT where he later operated the Adventure Quest school from 1989 to the early 1990s when he was …

Axios Media Trends on Tuesday broke the story nationally that RocaNews, the Internet news business co-founded in 2020 by Glens Falls native Max Frost, “has raised $4.4 million in a seed round led by Ori Allon, the co-founder and executive chairman of Compass Real Estate.”

Max, son of Chronicle owners Mark Frost and Sandra Hutchinson and brother of The Chronicle’s Zander Frost, is Roca President and Chief Operating Officer.

Roca’s …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Viewed on a brutally cold and overcast day last week, the new Ice Castles attraction in Lake George looked very much still a work in progress but build manager Anna Closser said “we’re very close” to opening. Tuesday they announced they’ll open this weekend, Sunday, Jan. 23.

This project “growing” in the Festival Commons at Charles R. Wood Park is not built from ice …

By Mark Frost & Zander Frost, Chronicle Editor & Staff Writer

West Mountain is making a big move — launching a ski academy run by Thomas Vonn, a former Olympian who also coached and was married to three-time Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.

“Thomas can coach at any level,” said West Mountain co-owner/operator Spencer Montgomery. Besides Lindsey Vonn, “he’s coached at the World Cup level and raced at the World …