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Ed Deso

Our January 25 front page

Winter Home Issue Glens Falls & Saratoga YMCAs eyeing merger. Monahan guilty. Marathon Dance. What is Siplon’s strategy? Dome sale nears. Glens Falls plans Mermaid Festival in June. Francis & Lois Schafer donate $200k to The Glen’s Memory Care. Fast oil change biz eyes Aviation Rd. site where Lake George Baking is. Argyle woman, 22, ‘repeatedly bitten’ by her dog; hospitalized but home now. Thunder this week: Three home games …

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Battle of Bloody Pond Road

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Neighbors on Bloody Pond Road in Lake George oppose a 26-unit senior housing development proposed by Richard Schermerhorn, but the group that some have dubbed the “Bloody Pond Road gang” says it’s less about pitchforks and torches, more about communicating and seeking a solution.

The project goes back before the Lake George Town Planning Board for a second public hearing Tuesday evening, Jan. 23, …

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Battenkill Creamery exits Glens Falls Farmers Market

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

As of last week, Battenkill Valley Creamery is no longer selling its milk and other products at the Glens Falls Farmers Market.

Asked about it, owner Seth McEachron tells The Chronicle that, prompted by conversations about the new Market Center coming to South Street, “I heard there were some kind of uncertainties of what was going to be happening with the Market, so I …

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Big plans for Mr. Bill’s

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Mike and Beatrice Greenough have been making a lot of changes since purchasing Mr. Bill’s Carhop in South Glens Falls from Jerry and Bonnie LaBarr on Aug. 31.

But while looking forward, they’re also looking back. Mrs. Greenough says she wants to build the carhop back to what it was when the original Mr. Bill (Bill Smith) owned it. “I know that when Mr. …

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Freshwater Institute chief corrects report as to Harmful Algal Blooms: Risk exists

Dear Mr. Frost,

In an article in the [Dec. 28] Chronicle titled “Harmful Algal Blooms may not be so harmful,” I was quoted as saying that the cyanobacteria that have been found in Lake George are labeled as a harmful algal bloom by the Department of Environmental Conservation, but the species does not meet the DEC’s definition of a bloom.

This is an incorrect attribution to me in the original …

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