By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

How do we count 2022? Were we on? Off? Restarting? Back to normal?

The pandemic receded from emergency to fact of life. We are still different, aren’t we, somehow, at least for now?

As 2022 closes, I’m thinking most about some ambitious efforts in local arts that had little even do with Covid.

• Spirits in the Trees got me thinking this way. “Let’s …

The Winter World University Games, billed as “the largest winter multi-sport collegiate athletic event in the world, after the Winter Olympics,” comes to the Adirondacks from January 12 to 22.

The Games’ nine venues include the Olympic Center, Speed Skating Oval, Olympic Jumping Complex, and Mt. Van Hoevenburg in Lake Placid; Gore Mountain; Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington; the Roos House at SUNY Canton; and SUNY Potsdam’s Maxcy Ice Arena and …

Happy New Year!! Cathy: Year in Arts. Mark in NYC. What went viral. NY losing residents fastest in the nation. Why Carla & Tom Burhoe sold Canoe Island Lodge. Return of the Polar Plunge. World Winter University Games Lake Placid, Gore. Stewart’s: Holiday Match $2+-million, local kids charities. Colgate Resolutions to sing at Crandall. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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Responding to students’ “strong” desire to return to the traditional two-day format, the 46th annual South High Marathon Dance is now scheduled for Friday and Saturday, March 3-4, 2023, at South Glens Falls High School.

“While we will be ready to change directions should conditions warrant, the current plan is to be back at the high school, the first weekend in March,” board member Gus Carayiannis said.

The last two …

By Max Frost, Rocanews.com

Editor’s note: Max Frost, the son of Chronicle owners Mark Frost and Sandra Hutchinson and brother of Chronicle Chief Operating Officer Zander Frost, is co-founder and COO of Rocanews, an Internet firm based in New York City that Max and two partners co-founded and operate. It has 1.2-million Instagram followers, a daily emailed newsletter and more.

Necoclí, Colombia, is the final town on the South …