Editor’s note: Former Chronicle foreign correspondent Max Frost is still doing international journalism, but now it’s for RocaNews, the Internet news organization he founded with two partners in August 2020. In January Max and Roca writer Alex Norris spent 2.5 weeks in Ethiopia. They’re back in the U.S. now, but Max is writing daily reports of the trip in the RocaNews letter. It’s free. Go to rocanews.com to sign up. …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

When Lake George Village voters go to the polls on March 21, they will be electing two new trustees as well as a new mayor.

Current trustee Ray Perry is running for mayor, with Bob Blais stepping down after 52 years. Trustee John Earl is also not seeking re-election.

Declared trustee candidates are Jose Filomeno, Randy Powell and Alyson Miller.

Jose Filomeno, 43, the …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Seasonal Garnet Lake resident Candace O’Connor has written A Gem of the Adirondacks: Garnet Lake.

Candace told me in an e-mail exchange, it’s a “200-page, hardbound book filled with some 460 photos (many in color), well-researched history and stories.”

The foreword is by Bill McKibben, the environmental activist and Middlebury College professor, who has a home on the lake.

The book celebrates the lake and …

Small Business Spotlight Radici owner runs for office. ‘23 South High Marathon Chairs. Glens Falls Indians gear sales boom. Max Frost: Ethiopia. Ed Moore buys 80 Glen near his JE Sawyer bldg. New book on Garnet Lake, in Johnsburg, to raise money for its conservation. Globetrotters in Glens Falls 2/22.Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Queensbury Middle School’s entire eighth grade class — 240 students — got a rare look at an industry in action when Finch Paper brought them in for tours and talks to understand what happens inside the paper mill — and the many ways that they might be a part of it.

Finch president Eric Wood and Queensbury Superintendent Kyle Gannon told The Chronicle, separately …