By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
The Queensbury Hotel expansion project was built of long-term relationships, as embodied by V&H Construction, the project’s general contractor.
“Thirty-eight years ago, when I was working for [Jim] Weller, I was the project manager” for the Queensbury Hotel’s indoor swimming pool, noted V&H President Rob Holbrook. He remarks that the hotel’s general manager “Leo Turley was afraid he was going to get fired over it.…
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By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer
Michael Phinney, of the Phinney Design Group, was the architect for the Queensbury Hotel expansion.
A 1990 Lake George graduate, he said, “I had a history with Tyler [Herrick], we did the Sagamore renovations together. When Tyler got the nod here, he recommended us.”
“This is special because I was born in Glens Falls,” said Mr. Phinney. “I grew up around here…we work all …
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Queensbury Hotel general manager and Spruce Hospitality co-owner Tyler Herrick says, “Both of my parents were entrepreneurs. They left corporate America in the early 80s.
“My mom started her own little gift shop in the town I grew up in, Topsfield, Massachusetts, about halfway between Boston and Newburyport right on Route 1 there.
“And my father left Stop and Shop …
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By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer
Joe Girard III, who led Glens Falls High School to state championships in basketball and football, is entering his senior year as Syracuse University’s point guard.
He’s been able to cash in on the NCAA’s new rules allowing athletes to profit from NIL (name, image, likeness) .
“I don’t know how many [deals] I have specifically,” JG3 told The Chronicle via Zoom from a …
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By Meg Hagerty, Special to The Chronicle
After 45 years running Hudson Falls’s Hilltop Construction Company, Tom Albrecht, 66, retired and swapped his title of CEO/President for Pastor of 147-year-old First United Methodist Church on Montcalm Street in Lake George.
Mr. Albrecht says he’s answering a call “placed on his heart by God.”
Hilltop, now led by his son, daughter and son-in-law, is known for building Stewart’s Shops, stores, offices, …
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