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Fort Ann native Tyler Mattison, 26, a right-handed relief pitcher, has put together an impressive start to the season for the Detroit Tigers’ Triple-A team, the Toledo Mud Hens.

In 8 appearances, Mattison has an 0.90 ERA and 11 strikeouts, allowing just one earned run over 10 innings of work.

“Strikes are really the key with him,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said about Mattison in a recent MLB.com article. “The …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Chronicle reached out to the Warren County Soil and Water Department to ask which are the most imperiled trees in our region.
District Technician Thresa Hajos filled us in.

Ash: ‘Decimated’

“I’d definitely say that the ash is probably number one,” she says. “More than just threatened” by the Emerald Ash Borer — an invasive golden-green metallic beetle from Asia — “most of …

By Kevin Kelly, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: We first saw this article about what to plant in the green space between sidewalk and road — dubbed a “hellstrip,” for the challenges it presents — in a Warren County Cornell Cooperative Extension newsletter.

Writer Kevin Kelly granted The Chronicle permission to reprint. He is a Master Gardener with the Penn State Extension of Dauphin County in Pennsylvania. “Beauty can …

At the Queensbury Planning Board meeting Thursday, April 23, for the proposed Cole’s Collision project at the Route 9 site of the former Blue Moose, the applicant requested the Board table further consideration of the project.

The Board agreed to hold the meeting until July, at a date to be determined.

“The applicant is reviewing the comments from the Planning Board and the public,” project Attorney Jon Lapper told The …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Developer Chris Patten’s apartments in his new, signature blue multi-use property at 56 South Street are filling.

Sixteen of the 20 apartments on the second and third floors — above the retail-level restaurants, shops and hair salon — are listed as currently rented.

Two of the 16 one-bedrooms and two of four two-bedrooms remain available.

Basic monthly rent in this building is $1,225 to …