By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Paul Crandell, a State Trooper who founded the Greater Glens Falls Flyers Swim Club in 1991, will retire from swim coaching when this season ends.

“It’s been 44 years,” Mr. Crandell told The Chronicle. “I look back and I say I don’t know how I did it with a full-time job [as a trooper for 20 years, retiring in 1998]. My wife and I …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

“The Burger Den was our Peppermill.”

That’s what a Salem native told me about the Burger Den on Route 22 in Cambridge that closed after 48 years.

Greg Baratto opened the Burger Den in 1975 and ran it with his wife Lisa for 35 years, until 2019, when their son Marco bought it to operate with his wife Meghan.

The Burger Den’s big menu …

By Maury Thompson, Special to The Chronicle

The Saratoga County towns of Moreau, Hadley, Day and Edinburg, now represented by U.S. Rep Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, would be moved into the 21st Congressional District, represented by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, under a new proposed congressional redistricting plan.

The “compromise” plan, which the state Independent Redistricting Commission approved by a 9-1 vote on Feb. 15, retains all of Warren and Washington counties …

Prime-Time Seniors Issue LG’s Winter gambits will close early. CEO of Protect Our Winters. Q&A: Views of marijuana. Washington County lost a mainstay. Stefanik would regain Moreau if new district map is okayed. Warren County Board check-in. Paul Crandell, who founded Flyers Swim Club, to retire from coaching. GF & HF both have brothers wrestling in NYS tourney. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Enrollment is growing at St. Mary’s-St. Alphonsus Regional Catholic School in Glens Falls.

“For next year…we’re anticipating 125 (students) for grades K to 8, which is a big bounce,” says Father Scott VanDerveer, pastor of both the school and St. Mary’s Church. “We’re anticipating potentially two kindergartens, two first grades and a return of eighth grade, all in the same year.”

SMSA suspended its …