Chronicle staff writer Ben Westcott writes: The City of Glens Falls announced it is doing a feasibility study to consider whether to sell its two fire stations — at 134 Ridge St. and the intersection of Broad and Murray streets — and consolidate them in a new building at 124 Ridge, where the Rite-Aid store closed last year.

“The needs of the Glens Falls Fire Department have grown…The upgrades needed …

Chronicle staff writer Ben Westcott writes: Three development proposals appear before the Queensbury Planning Board this month.

Saratoga Springs-based developer and Subway franchisee Russ Faden proposes demolishing an existing home and constructing a 3-story, 34-unit apartment complex on the corner of Pine and Main streets behind his existing retail plaza on Main. It’s a $4 million project.

Developer Tim Barber plans to construct an 80,000 sq. ft., one-story commercial office …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Lake George Village will celebrate its new amphitheatre in Shepard Park this Friday, July 17. The public is welcome for tours beginning at 11 a.m. There will be a ribbon-cutting.

Music begins at noon, with The Stony Creek Band, Blue Moon Band, The Switch, Jonathan Newell and Rich Ortiz.

At 6:30 p.m., this week’s Fridays at the Lake show has Blues House Rockers opening …

The Chronicle’s Ben Westcott writes: Brayden Dock, the Glens Falls grad who will be entering his junior year at Colgate, finished sixth in the New York State Golf Association Men’s Amateur at Glens Falls Country Club in Queensbury Thursday.

Dock, 19, shot two over par through four rounds, 12 strokes off the pace of champion Matthew Lowe, a 30-year-old former pro from Farmingdale.

“I was very satisfied,” he told The …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Russ Barber, our friend and the Kinderhook balloonist we sponsored for more than three decades at the Adirondack Balloon Festival, passed away on Monday at the age of 93. (Russ always seemed to me many years younger than his actual age.)

Russ was a cornerstone of the Adirondack Balloon Festival — and of hot-air ballooning overall.

So many balloonists learned how to fly from him …