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Rolling Thunder!

A crowded ice hockey arena with spectators watching players on the ice and a large scoreboard display overhead.

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Adirondack Thunder of the ECHL are rolling. As of Tuesday, the team had won six games in a row and boasted a 22-8 record, good for second in the ECHL Eastern Conference standings.

Near the halfway point of the home schedule, Jeff Mead, general manager of the Cool Insuring Arena and president of business operations for the Thunder, said the team has sold …

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Glens Falls Planning Board cordial to cannabis plan at Dizzy Chicken

Two women smiling at the camera indoors, one wearing a tan jacket and the other wearing a gray jacket.

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Jody Cracco of Lake George and her daughter Brittany Cracco of Glens Falls met with a generally welcoming and positive response from the Glens Falls Planning Board in their first meeting over the “Saratoga Cannabis Co.” dispensary they want to open at the former Dizzy Chicken restaurant on 72 South Street.

Her intent, Jody Cracco said at the January 2 meeting, was “to start …

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Sabrina Della Bella lived her Giants’ dream this season

A woman stands on a football field in a stadium, pointing upward toward the scoreboard while smiling at the camera.

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sabrina Della Bella, 22, was living out her dream this football season — working in the NFL, for the New York Giants.

The 2019 Queensbury graduate and 2023 Siena graduate spent the season working in Corporate Partnerships doing “hospitality, events, social campaigns, fantasy football events” for the Giants’ sponsors, she said.

Sabrina is all about sports business.

“I have been working in the sports …

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Our January 11 front page

Scanned front page of The Chronicle newspaper from January 11-17, 2024, featuring stories about the Adirondack Thunder hockey team, AnglioDynamics closure,…

Wedding Issue! Rolling Thunder! Rabid fox. Knifepoint charges. AngioDynamics will close Queensbury & Glens Falls locations in 24 months. Towering Beagle. GF Kiwanis eyes possible restart of ‘Taste’; seeking restaurants. Jeff Dunham, Glens Falls, Fri. 1 dead in rollover Northway bus crash. Glens Falls’ Martin Luther King Day event is on Sunday. Six Flags has closed Johnny Rockets, will demolish bldg. GF Planning Board cordial to cannabis plan at Dizzy …

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Still pending: Big plan to turn former Tee-Bird into luxury RV park, solar farm

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Latham-based U.S. Light Energy has ambitious hopes for the long vacant, 203-acre Tee-Bird Country Club in Moreau.

COO Michael Fingar told The Chronicle the project would encompass:

  • A “conservation area and walking trail in the rear of the property.”
  • “A luxury motor coach and cabin resort in the front of the property, and
  • Two five-megawatt community solar projects “in the back of the property,

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