BREAKING NEWS: The 161-year-old Glens Falls paper manufacturer Finch Paper announced today, July 17, that it will stop making any of its own pulp, instead buying all of it from outside suppliers.
Finch said the change “will enable Finch to expand its paper product offerings to customers and create a stronger, more
resilient operation focused solely on its core business of paper making.”
The company said, “All of the hourly …
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By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
After 51 years and two generations, the Troestra family has sold their Garden Time property to the automotive Romeo family of Glens Falls.
The garden center will continue operating this year.
“I’ll be open for business right up through October 31st,” Frank Troelstra told The Chronicle. “So I’ll still go through the mum season, the pumpkin season, the fall season, but I’ll no longer sell …
Read More »By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer
Lake George and Washington County have had four confirmed cases of rabies in wild animals in the past two weeks.
A beaver bit two people in the water on Lake George near Turtle Island July 4.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recovered a deceased beaver near Turtle Island July 9 that tested positive for rabies, but the agency stressed it cannot …
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Chronicle staff writer Ben Westcott writes: The City of Glens Falls announced it is doing a feasibility study to consider whether to sell its two fire stations — at 134 Ridge St. and the intersection of Broad and Murray streets — and consolidate them in a new building at 124 Ridge, where the Rite-Aid store closed last year.
“The needs of the Glens Falls Fire Department have grown…The upgrades needed …
Read More »Chronicle staff writer Ben Westcott writes: Three development proposals appear before the Queensbury Planning Board this month.
Saratoga Springs-based developer and Subway franchisee Russ Faden proposes demolishing an existing home and constructing a 3-story, 34-unit apartment complex on the corner of Pine and Main streets behind his existing retail plaza on Main. It’s a $4 million project.
Developer Tim Barber plans to construct an 80,000 sq. ft., one-story commercial office …
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