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Queensbury grad Brigid Duffy picked 3rd in pro lacrosse draft

Queensbury grad Brigid Duffy, a senior at Army West Point, was selected third overall last Wednesday by the Maryland Charm in the inaugural Women’s Lacrosse League draft. Previously named to the US Lacrosse Women’s National Field Team, Duffy currently holds the Army West Point program record for goals, shots, free position goals, ground balls and draw controls.

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Rogge has it rolling

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

In 2020 Queensbury native Mike Rogge bought a storied but defunct magazine called Mountain Gazette for $5,000.

Six years later it’s nominated for a prestigious National Magazine Award in the category of Feature Writing vs. industry heavyweights The New Yorker, New York, The Atlantic and Harper’s, plus Texas Monthy and a specialty medical mag called STAT.

The American Society of Magazine Editors awards will …

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St. Mary’s adds 3 nuns: School principal plus 2, & a new convent

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Sister Laurie-Marie Parisi, C.R. will be installed on July 1 as the new principal of St. Mary’s Academy Catholic School in Glens Falls.

She will be accompanied by two other Sisters of the Resurrection, said St. Mary’s Church. The three will live in the parish rectory on Warren Street, now to be referred to as St. Mary’s Convent.

Father Scott VanDerveer will move to …

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Glens Falls ups parking downtown to 3 hours from 2, & more efforts

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Glens Falls Common Council voted at its April 14 meeting to extend the parking limit in the downtown Central Business Improvement District from two to three hours. The limit is for Monday to Friday, only, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Most other areas of the City will have no daytime restrictions.

Overnight parking is still not allowed on City streets.

“When people …

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Glens Falls aims to sell its Rec Center to Adk. Youth Hockey

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

At its April 14 meeting, the Glens Falls Common Council voted to pursue a sale of the Glens Falls Rec Center to Adirondack Youth Hockey Association, which will take over considerable costs of the facility.

Under the agreement, the AYHA would undertake operational costs, environmental remediation from last year’s glycol leak, and restoration of the ice rink “to a usable condition” at an expected …

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