By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Demolition of the former Water Slide World in Lake George is to begin “in the next few days,” attorney Jonathan Lapper said Monday in response to a Chronicle query. Mr. Lapper represents Richard Schermerhorn who purchased the 12-acre property last month for $3 million and plans a mixed-use project with as many as 200 market-rate apartments, plus commercial space for offices and retail at …

By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri, Chronicle Summer Staff

Minky Mink, the downtown Glens Falls women’s clothing boutique, is featuring local women modeling its clothes on its website and Instagram.

“We do high-style fashion photo shoots every month & love photographing women from our community. We invite you to reach out & work with us,” Minky Mink exclaims on its website. “Anybody can do it.”

“I think it was my sister’s idea,” says …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Randy Travis at the Charles Wood Theater last Sunday turned out to be one of the great Glens Falls events of all time.

The country music legend and his wife Mary Travis sold out two shows, afternoon and evening — and they made their mark in Corinth and Glens Falls besides.

Kevin Richards, the local CMA award- winning DJ, produced the event and proved …

The Lake George Park Commission has issued its proposed new regulations on septic systems around the lake.

All wastewater systems located within 500 feet of Lake George or within 100 feet of DEC regulated streams would have to be inspected every five years under proposed State regulations seeking “to prevent degradation of the Lake from wastewater pollution.”

The Park Commission, which would administer the program, estimated it would apply to …

Health & Fitness Issue! Balloon Fest. Randy Travis triumph. Death of Bill Dow. Hal Raven, train maven, now operates one of his own. Minky Mink taps locals to model. Demolition to begin of Water Slide World; Schermerhorn to Planning Bd. 1/23. Y’s Gators back in the swim. Kevin Crossman has thriving T3 triathlete coaching biz. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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