“After over forty years, YOUTHEATRE is taking its final bow,” read the message posted Sunday afternoon signed by founders Mickey and Sharon Luce and their daughters Amity and Lanni.

“We are grateful for all who created the music and magic, and for those who were part of the madness and for making miracles. You will live in our hearts, and we are eternally grateful for all the memories.”

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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The 61st Lake George Winter Carnival kicks off this weekend with opening ceremonies, the annual Winter Carnival Parade including guest float the Oscar Mayer “Weinermobile” and many regional fire companies, the first of two-this-year Outhouse Race weekends, a new “Jeepin Duck Hunt Scavenger Hunt” by 518 Jeep-in’ Club, a chili cookoff, and much more.

“We’re excited,” said Lake George Winter Carnival’s Nancy Nichols on …

“LGA Breaking News: Controversial Herbicide Proposal is Back,” headlined a “Call To Action” press release Tuesday from the Lake George Association.

The LGA elaborated: “Despite the opposition of more than 4,500 concerned citizens last summer, and a pending Feb. 17 hearing in New York State Supreme Court in Warren County, the Lake George Park Commission is once again submitting an application to the Adirondack Park Agency and the New York …

30 years in the making, Dale Baldwin’s grand plan nears fruition at corner of Routes 149, 9L, Qby

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

If it seems like forever that people have wondered what’s happening with the handsome wooden buildings gradually taking shape at the busy intersection of Routes 149 and 9L in Queensbury, it’s because, in a way, it has.

“He’s had this idea for, like, 30 years,” Travis Baldwin …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: They were bringing in extra chairs and still sold out the house for Johnny and June/A Man Named Cash — a new project by real-life musician-couple Megan Houde and Eric Hofmanis.

More than 400 of their hometown fans came out to cheer and swoon for what turns out to be a night to remember.

Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash: The songbook is irrefutable, to …