By Cathy DeDe & Ben Westcott, Chronicle Managing Editor & Staff Writer

Groups of people hanging out all day in City Park, sleeping on benches, congregating, often loudly, around the bricked half-circle sidewalk on Maple Street that is a main pathway to Crandall Public Library was noticeable all summer and has continued into the fall.

“I’d say there’s about two dozen people that make up this group. It changes. You’ll …

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From Bat Week in Moreau to BooTown in Fort Ann, from Dancing Witches and the Goblin Gallop to Ghost Stories and Trunk or Treat, northern New York gets very Halloweeny! Check our guide below!

All Abilities at the Mall For Halloween

All Abilities Productions of Upstate New York, inclusive theater company founded by Andy O’Rourke of Glens Falls, holds its second annual Haunted House at their rehearsal space in Aviation …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Adirondack Thunder have their first home game on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. against the Trois-Rivieres Lions.

Team President Jeff Mead said Monday the game was “very close” to selling out, and that the Thunder had already sold about 2,400 season tickets, shattering the previous record of 1,614 season tickets sold set last year.

He said the Thunder offer the lowest priced …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

That was one heck of an epic Warren County Occupancy Tax meeting, Monday morning, Oct. 21. It clocked in at two minutes shy of three hours. Fifty-two entities requested grants totaling well more than $1.4-million — with only $700,000 budgeted to give out by the county.

It was a who’s-who and showcase of the local scene. CEOs and board leaders of signature arts organizations, …