By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
The Glens Falls Entertainment and Music Festival — called GEM Fest — doubles in size in this, its eighth year (seventh year, if we ditch the Covid-cancelled festival of 2020).
This year, organizer Brian Michael of Heady Productions in Glens Falls tells The Chronicle, they’ll have 40 regional bands and musicians, versus 20 acts last year, performing over two days, versus last year’s one-day …
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Our Summer Home Issue Glen Drive-In dust-up. Queensbury wary on FW Webb rezone. Winter phenom plan at the Fort. GEM Fest in Glens Falls July 21 & 22. Moreau Lake State Park beach is open! Arrow Financial files delayed 10-K form; will set its annual meeting. GF Zoning ok’s variances for 28 Chris Patten apartments on Washington St.; synagogue objects. Johnsburg debuts new historical museum, in Wevertown. Larry J. Cleveland …
Read More »By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff
Santore World Famous Fireworks, the company that does fireworks for Lake George Village, has branched into drones, forming a separate company, Amazing Drone Shows.
“A drone show consists of multiple drones that…have their own independent light system on them…. We can put them in the air, and we can make shapes, images, logos, words, anything you could possibly imagine,” Jeff Ward, general manager of …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe & Hannah Hughes, Managing Editor & Summer Staff
Glens Falls has enough lifeguards, and its Haviland’s Cove beach on the Hudson River is open full-time — 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, interim Recreation Director Amy Collins told The Chronicle. “Our new aquatics director Mia Cote is a Glens Falls graduate and was a swimmer at St. Bonaventure. She’s done a wonderful job of recruiting and …
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The Queensbury Town Board conducted a public hearing that lasted about 90 minutes Monday evening. Most speakers opposed the application to rezone 15 acres on Quaker Road across from Garvey Volkswagen/Kia from Commercial Industrial to Light Industrial Commercial to make way for a 96,000 square foot F.W. Webb distribution center retail store. The property is adjacent to Glens Falls’ Windy Hill/Windy Ridge neighborhood.
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