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Seth Harris $$ win to fund new Lake George education programs

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Seth Harris, a self-described lifelong Lake George enthusiast, received Sunmark Credit Union’s 2025 Susan V. Siegel Community Service Leader Award at a ceremony on Monday, April 27, at the Lake George Land Conservancy.

The award comes with a $2,500 cash prize, to be donated to the recipient’s nonprofit of choice. Notified of the award, he said, “I knew exactly what I wanted to support, …

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President Trump picked Constantino; local pols stick with Smullen

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Warren County Republican Committee Chair Tim McNulty reached out to The Chronicle to share his committee’s response to President Donald Trump’s endorsement last week of Anthony Constantino in the Republican primary race for New York’s 21st Congressional District. The seat will be vacated by six-term Republican stalwart Elise Stefanik after this year.

Fellow contender, Assemblyman Robert Smullen, has been overwhelmingly endorsed by Republican committees …

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Fort Ann’s Tyler Mattison off to hot start at Detroit Tigers’ Triple-A Toledo

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 …

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Trees in peril

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 …

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Says: Plant a garden in curb-side ‘Hellstrip’

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 …

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