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Opens an auction house in South Glens Falls

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Karl Schulze hopes to succeed in a vanishing business.

He’s opened Schulze’s Auction at Midtown Shopping Center in South Glens Falls, just up from the Dollar Tree store.

He does auctions Friday nights, mostly household items so far, but on Aug. 11, “We have a nice antique auction.

“For years, I’ve bought and sold stuff at auctions, flea markets. Traveled up, down, had some relatives …

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Queensbury School’s first inductees into Athletics Hall of Fame

Two teams and 41 individuals form the first class of inductees into the Queensbury Union Free School District’s newly created Athletics Hall of Fame.

Half the group will be honored in a ceremony on Oct. 14, 2023, at Lake George’s Courtyard by Marriott.

Tickets are $50 per person, including appetizers and a buffet dinner with choice of beef or chicken and a cash bar.

To purchase tickets, send a check …

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Our August 3 front page

Real Estate! Opens an auction house in South Glens Falls. The Greyhound stops here. LG native’s thriving biz: Makes jewelry of Barbie doll parts. SUNY Adk’s course on cannabis. Bonacio wants to team South Street Phases 1 & 2; denies project is stalled; ‘we are moving forward’. Qby. School’s first inductees into Athletics Hall of Fame. Lumberjack festival in Stony Creek. Don Felder — of the Eagles! plays Sunday at …

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Sees good, bad in new LG winter attraction

Greetings Chronicle –

In a response to the article “Winter Phenom…” in your recent edition.

I will assume that most of the players in this project will see the futility of attracting tourists to a “contrived attraction.”

The original light trail produced by Moment Factory was constructed in Parc de la Gorge, Coaticook, Quebec in 2014 and called Foresta Lumina. This created a “Tourism Tsunami” — the little town of …

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After 43 summers, family’s sad farewell to LG’s Canoe Island Lodge

To the Editor:

In August of 1980 a young married couple were looking for a place to vacation with their daughters. As luck would have it they stumbled across a family-run resort on beautiful Lake George and decided to stay the week.

Taken by the hospitality of Jane and Bill Busch, the history of the property, the beauty of the lake, the simplicity of the lodge, and all of the …

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