Friday, September 25, 2026

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Harts’ 3rd generation steps up

Woman standing outside a white building with a green awning and yellow umbrella in the background on a sunny day.

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Julie (Hart) Murphy, the third-generation of the local Hart pizza-making family, plans to move her Queen of Harts Pizza across Lafayette Street to a larger space in the Noon Whistle Deli building.

“We officially bought it in April,” said Julie, adding that she may be the last Hart family member making pizza. “I’m the last standing one in the game.”

The Harts started what …

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Their plans for 196 Ridge

A two-story brick house with white porches and shuttered windows surrounded by overgrown vegetation.

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Planning Board was to consider at its Aug. 6 meeting site plan review for a renovation, addition and townhouse project at 196 Ridge Street by the Snyder family that owns Snyder Drywall in Moreau. They plan six apartments and six new townhouses on the 1.135-acre parcel at the corner of Ridge and William Streets.

  • The existing two-story Victorian brick building, built
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Ben’s big rafting trip

Two groups of people wearing yellow helmets and life jackets navigate whitewater rapids in yellow rafts.

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

In my continuing pursuit of outdoor activities in the region, I went whitewater rafting on the Hudson River.

With 10 companies operating on the stretch of river I was looking to explore, I certainly had my pick of options.

I ended up booking a trip with Wild Waters Outdoor Center, a family owned and operated business that has whitewater rafted the Hudson and Sacandaga …

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NYS bans cell phones for kids at school; GF & Qby.’s plans

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Under New York State mandate, cell phones will now be banned “from bell to bell” for all students, grades K-12.

They can’t be accessed in the classroom, at lunch, in study halls, in the halls between classes or on playgrounds or playing fields.

No texting, taking photos, recording video or use of any social media at school.

The state’s new “distraction-free schools” regulation banishes …

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Chestertown exhibit: Clarke and Barbara Dunham’s 70 ‘creative’ years

An older man in a yellow shirt and an older woman in a dark blue shirt stand together outdoors, smiling at the camera with trees in the background.

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Clarke and Barbara Dunham may be best known for the model trains: Detailed, expansive layouts that have been displayed locally at the North Creek Depot Museum and the Dunhams’ own former Trains on Parade museum in Pottersville — and across the country, including the massive annual Christmas train layout that ran for 30 seasons at Citicorp headquarters in New York City.

Now “mostly” retired, …

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