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BREAKING: Six Flags sells The Great Escape

Six Flags has entered into a “definitive agreement” to sell its Great Escape amusement park in Queensbury to Kansas City based EPR Properties, Six Flags announced.

The company is also selling six other parks across the U.S. and Canada to EPR.

The Great Escape will continue “normal operations” through the 2026 season, with EPR retaining the right to use the Six Flags brand through 2026.

All 2026 season passes and …

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Our March 5 front page

South High Marathon Dance! After the fire. Sap not running. Logging history talk drew throng. Arrow Financial buying Utica-based Adirondack Bank for $90-million. Lumberjacks & more: Winter Carnival finale. Tim Ortiz sets March 9 opening: ‘GF Liquor,’ Glen St. downtown. Sorrentino’s Deli in SGF is for sale. Lagoon owners buy Village Mall, plan to make it year-round. Cole’s Collision tabled to April; 70 people at Planning Board session oppose it. …

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Republican Allen Caruso challenges Carrie Woerner

Allen Caruso, CEO of the restaurant THORN + ROOTS and owner and real estate broker at First Integrity Homes, both in Saratoga Springs, announced his candidacy on Feb. 16 as a Republican for Democrat Carrie Woerner’s District 113 State Assembly seat.

His announement said he is focused on “restoring affordability, strengthening public safety, supporting small businesses, and bringing common-sense leadership back to Albany.”

“Our district deserves leadership that understands how …

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Brady Stark seeks a Queensbury at Large seat on Warren County Board

Queensbury Planning Board member Brady Stark, 25, a Republican, announced his candidacy for Queensbury At Large Supervisor on the Warren County Board.

He touted endorsements from the Queensbury Republican and Warren County Conservative committees.

“Warren County has a spending problem,” said the press release. It said expenditures have increased by 35% over the past four years, the Board awarded itself 31% raises and funded a $1 million-per-year CDTA bus service …

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Thunder ‘Stick It to Cancer’

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Adirondack Thunder Hockey Team’s annual Stick It to Cancer Weekend returns with games at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27 & 28, at Harding Mazzotti Arena.

“One of the biggest weekends of the season,” says Jeff Mead, Arena Manager and Thunder President. “This initiative is a testament to the power of sports to unite and make a meaningful difference, bringing fans, players, …

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