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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Ed Moore, Tyler Herrick, Gina Mintzer, Robert Nemer, Christie Alexander and Rosemary Royce were businesspeople who addressed Mayor Bill Collins and the Common Council at its Tuesday night meeting at “The Ed” on South Street.

“I have a great office, and I get to look over City Park every single day,” said Mr. Herrick, general manager of the Queensbury Hotel. “And what’s happening over …

Work is now underway on Phase 2 of Bonacio Construction’s South and Elm Street projects in downtown Glens Falls.

The official groundbreaking is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 1 p.m. project manager Steve Licciardi tells The Chronicle.

Bonacio says on its Website that Phase 2, known as South Street Apartments, will include a five-story building housing 70 mixed-income apartments — 49 one-bedroom, 20 two-bedroom, and one three-bedroom.

Eleven apartments …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Thanks to my brother Rich, I’m following up on my story in the July 17 Chronicle about the Sears kit house tour I took with the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation.

Turns out Rich is a Sears kit house aficionado, and he alerted me that one of Sears’s biggest, most lavish houses was called The Glen Falls.

There much info on searshomes.org, a website apparently maintained …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Lake George officials broke ground on Friday, and work was to begin Monday, on “Repose of the Fallen,” the reinterment site and memorial at Lake George Battlefield that will be the final resting place for 44 Continental American soldiers and others.

Their remains were discovered in February 2019, during a construction project at Courtland Street in the Village.

The site is believed to have …

Autumn Home Issue! New NY homes must go all electric. Harding Mazzotti bets big on Glens Falls. Downtown worries. Dog owners anguish. She waterskis at 80. Bonacio to break ground Oct. 15 on South St. Phase 2. Great Escape Fright Fest starts Sept. 27. Whitehall: Sasquatch fest & calling contest. The Glen Falls was Sears’ second grandest ‘kit’ house. Margo Macero & Shannon Tehya: What a show! Dropped ducks raised …