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SUNY Adk.’s $35.8-million budget plan

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

SUNY Adirondack’s proposed budget for the 2026-27 academic year is $35,828,439. SUNY Adirondack president Dr. Anastasia Urtz and college administrators presented it to the Community College committees of both Warren and Washington Counties, its joint municipal sponsors, on June 5.

Both county committees approved the proposed budget at the meeting.

If the full board’s adopt it, Warren County’s portion will be $2,844,766, an increase …

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Our June 18 front page

Happy Father’s Day, Dads!! Jackson Heights 2nd-grader ‘ran out,’ got home. Sunday in the UK. 22-year-old with a plan! Hotel’s Cooper’s Cave mural restored. Katy’s Wine & Whiskey Bar at South & Elm eyes June 29 opening. Man dies, hit by car on Morgan Ave., GF. Corinth man charged with concealing corpse. 17 horses die in fire at Saratoga Harness. GF’s Sadie Palmer: NYS shot put title. SUNY Adk.’s $35.8-million …

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Great Escape’s new prez, 35, is home-grown

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Newly named Great Escape President Andrew Burggraf, 35, started his career at the park 20 years ago as a Lake George High School 10th grader. “I started as a sweeper, keeping the midways clean,” he tells The Chronicle.

He took the job so he could buy his dad’s Jeep. “I thought, I gotta find something fun, and I lived right around the corner from …

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So. Glens Falls sophomore Hayden Knapp wins high school NYS golf title

The Chronicle’s Ben Westcott writes: South Glens Falls sophomore Hayden Knapp won the New York State Girls High School Golf Championship Monday, shooting a two under par 142 over the two-day tournament at Wild Wood Country Club in Rush to win by two strokes.

Hayden was the only player in the field to shoot under par at Wild Wood.

She trailed Rome Free Academy’s Rachel O’Rourke by one stroke after …

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GF eyes 2 parties to operate ‘The Ed’ & first floor of Bonacio 36 Elm

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Two separate operators may jointly run The Ed and the adjacent 5,000 square-foot first floor commercial space of 36 Elm (the former “Incubator”) that Glens Falls contracted to lease (now the City’s LDC) from owner Bonacio Development — for $900,000 over the next 10 years.

“We did have three interested parties,” Mayor Diana Palmer told the May 22 Glens Falls Local Development Corporation meeting. …

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