Memorial Day Issue Parades & ceremonies return. Gas tax caps save some cents. Car crashed through downtown’s hub. Islamic Center buys former GF Christian Science bldg. Valedictorians! Matt Rozell, part 3 of WW2 series. Final map: SGF gets Tonko, GF gets Stefanik in redistricting. South Glens Falls Prom pics. Twiddle, more at Memorial Meltdown, Lake George. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!…

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Staff Writer

Deanne Rehm insists there’s nothing extraordinary about her graduating from SUNY Adirondack last weekend — at age 81. Her degree is an Associates in Science, Individual Studies.

Ms. Rehm is the retired longtime Town Assessor for Queensbury, Lake George and Bolton. She was also Town Supervisor of Bolton for six years; three terms from 1997 to 2001.

“I thoroughly enjoyed being with the 20-year-olds,” …

By Matthew Rozell, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series, following Hudson Falls historian and retired teacher Matt Rozell’s documentary project on his best-selling book A Train from Magdeburg, about American solders’ liberation of Jewish Holocaust surviors in 1945.

On April 12, film director Mike Edwards and I drove in our rented BMW from near Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to the city of Magdeburg …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Isabelle Perkett, the 17-year-old Lake George student profiled in The Chronicle who was suddenly diagnosed with renal failure last December — she has received her kidney transplant.

“I feel great and I am so grateful to my donor and for all my friends, family and community supporting me through all of this,” Isabelle says.

Mom Donna Metivier Perkett tells The Chronicle, “We are beyond …

By Jason Irwin, Chronicle Freelance

I stopped by the Senior Center of Kingsbury-Fort Edward on Oak Street last Tuesday morning, May 10. I had received a tip that something pretty interesting was going on there.

Intrigued as to why I was sent on this assignment, and knowing I primarily report on the music scene, I immediately found the answer when I entered a downstairs room filled with musical instruments — …