By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Doug Frost set in motion this Tuesday’s referendum on whether to dissolve Lake George Village.

“I look at this as a win-win situation,” he says. “…If it does not pass, the Village Board will follow through on its own study of consolidation and long term savings for Village residents.”

Mr. Frost owns the Tom Tom Shop and Mayard Center in the village and formerly …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

When Randy Travis and his wife Mary take the stage for their two sold-out shows this Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Charles Wood Theater in Glens Falls, it’ll be “something different,” Mary told The Chronicle in a phone interview from Nashville this week.

The country music superstar and his wife, both 63, will give intimate “Up Close and Personal” programs.

“We haven’t done that …

Wedding Issue! Randy Travis. Car Fests Weekend. Lake George Village decides Tuesday. Millers’ Park & Elm near opening. Farm Wage Board backs 40 hour overtime threshold; farmers say it dooms them in NY. Cheese Tour! Plus Beer, wine, cider. Moreau Block Party. Walk for Veteran Suicide Prevention, City Park Sept. 14. Lake George Restaurant Week returns, Sept. 11-17. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & …

Zander Frost writes: In March, The Chronicle published a cartoon submitted by Ben Fishel showing two birds comparing their poop to the Lake George outline decals seen on cars around the region.

Now it’s a T-shirt courtesy of Bolton- based apparel company Local, who say they originally popularized the original Lake George-shaped decal.

“You can blame us for 15,000+ of the cars you see with this bird sh*t on them,” …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Lake George Town Supervisor Dennis Dickinson hopes the Lake George Village dissolution proposal “is turned down” by village voters in the September 13 vote.

“I’m not sure dissolution is the way to go, that it is beneficial to all parties,” Mr. Dickinson told The Chronicle. He confirmed the position after last week’s Laberge Group consultant presentation.

He notes, as does the Laberge study, that …