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Jimmer Fredette announces retirement from basketball

Jimmer Fredette, the Glens Falls High School basketball standout whose performance at Brigham Young University launched the “Jimmermania” craze, announced he has retired from Basketball.
 
Jimmer was the 2011 AP College Basketball Player of the Year. He was drafted 10th overall in the 2011 NBA draft, and played for the Sacramento Kings, Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Pelicans, New York Knicks, and Phoenix Suns. He also had a successful stint overseas,

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Kopf’s bet on Hudson Falls

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Andrew Kopf, 32, is betting big on John Street. He calls it “the South Street of Hudson Falls.”

John Street has “many reputations,” he says. “It has fallen, and it will come again, just like Hudson Falls Village will.

“It only makes sense as Glens Falls develops, the neighboring communities are going to develop. They just will. Hudson Falls is still a cheaper place …

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‘Family-friendly’ nail salon coming to downtown Glens Falls

We’ll be offering nail services for kids ages 4 and up. Adults are welcome, too, even without kids — as long as they don’t mind that their neighbor might be little and friendly,” Stephanie Guzik-Lendrum tells The Chronicle about Blush Mini Spa, her new business targeting a May opening in the Colvin Building on Glen Street downtown.

She told the Glens Falls Planning Board, before they approved the project last …

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West Mountain project: First OK from Qby. Planning Board

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Queensbury Planning Board voted unanimously on April 10 to recommend to the Town Board that the zoning at 59 West Mountain Rd. be changed from Residential Commercial to a Planned Resort Development to accommodate the Woods at West Mountain alpine ski village proposal. The decision came after the panel held six special meetings on the project.

Chairman Stephen Traver and Board Members Will …

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Ken Tingley’s ‘Last Newspaper’ play debuted in Albany

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: A couple of quick take-aways from the first-ever staged reading of The Last American Newspaper, former Post Star editor Ken Tingley’s first-ever play, based on his memoir of the same title, hosted by Capital Repertory Theater in Albany on April 2 as part of their “Next Act New Play Summit.”

Kudos to Ken; it’s no small thing to write a book or a play.…

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