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GEM Festival, music & art in Glens Falls, goes big!

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Entertainment and Music Festival — called GEM Fest — doubles in size in this, its eighth year (seventh year, if we ditch the Covid-cancelled festival of 2020).

This year, organizer Brian Michael of Heady Productions in Glens Falls tells The Chronicle, they’ll have 40 regional bands and musicians, versus 20 acts last year, performing over two days, versus last year’s one-day …

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Essity closes South Glens Falls mill, will end local operations

Essity announced in a press release that it “has made the difficult decision to close its tissue manufacturing operations in New York state and consolidate production at its other U.S. sites. This closure will include the South Glens Falls paper mill, Greenwich converting facility and Saratoga warehouse/distribution center.”

It said 300 jobs will be lost.

“It is never easy to decide to close a manufacturing operation,” Michael Olive, plant director …

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Our July 20 front page

Our Summer Home Issue Glen Drive-In dust-up. Queensbury wary on FW Webb rezone. Winter phenom plan at the Fort. GEM Fest in Glens Falls July 21 & 22. Moreau Lake State Park beach is open! Arrow Financial files delayed 10-K form; will set its annual meeting. GF Zoning ok’s variances for 28 Chris Patten apartments on Washington St.; synagogue objects. Johnsburg debuts new historical museum, in Wevertown. Larry J. Cleveland …

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Fireworks firm’s drone show

By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff

Santore World Famous Fireworks, the company that does fireworks for Lake George Village, has branched into drones, forming a separate company, Amazing Drone Shows.

“A drone show consists of multiple drones that…have their own independent light system on them…. We can put them in the air, and we can make shapes, images, logos, words, anything you could possibly imagine,” Jeff Ward, general manager of …

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GF has enough lifeguards; Moreau had to cut beach days

By Cathy DeDe & Hannah Hughes, Managing Editor & Summer Staff

Glens Falls has enough lifeguards, and its Haviland’s Cove beach on the Hudson River is open full-time — 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, interim Recreation Director Amy Collins told The Chronicle. “Our new aquatics director Mia Cote is a Glens Falls graduate and was a swimmer at St. Bonaventure. She’s done a wonderful job of recruiting and …

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