By Zander Frost & Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Jimmer Fredette retired as a player last Wednesday, but he’s not leaving basketball anytime soon.

USA Basketball announced Monday that Fredette, the Glens Falls High School standout whose National College Player of the Year performance at Brigham Young University launched the “Jimmermania” craze, will be the first managing director of the USA 3×3 Men’s National Team.”

Fredette, the former No. 1 …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Queensbury Town Supervisor John Strough removed Ward 3 council member Michael Dixon as his deputy supervisor, replacing him with non-board member Jean Anderson Lapper.

The move came after the April 7 Town Board meeting turned contentious over hiring a new Town Cemetery Superintendent.

Mr. Dixon, a Republican, is challenging Democrat Mr. Strough for Town Supervisor in November.

A deputy supervisor does not have to …

Republican Sarah Driscoll, who said she’s now a stay-at-home mom who did financial audits and training for the State Comptroller’s office for 10 years, will challenge Ward 4 Democratic Common Council member Ben Lapham in November, The Chronicle has learned.

Mrs. Driscoll, 37, said she is “a sixth-generation” Glens Falls resident. Her great grandfather was Fire Chief LeRoy Akins. Mayor LeRoy Akins was her great uncle.

“My family has served …

By Caroline Martindale, Chronicle Staff Writer

High school senior Olivia Belden, is one of 75 Hudson Falls students attending BOCES. She studies criminal justice at the Saratoga center and said it’s changed her whole attitude.

“I really hated school before BOCES,” she told The Chronicle. “I was really fortunate that I even got into it because I really didn’t care about school and I didn’t think they would look at …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Residents expressed outrage about the waste incinerator at 93 River Street, Hudson Falls, in a meeting that ran nearly three hours at the Kingsbury Volunteer Hose Company on April 16.

The meeting was required as Win Waste Hudson Falls seeks to renew a Title V air permit through the Department of Environmental Conservation.

“You guys are just awful,” said Andrea Kirby, who lives next …