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Our April 30 front page

Scanned front page of The Chronicle newspaper from April 30-May 6, 2026, featuring stories about trees in peril, apartments filling on South Street, and…

Lawn & Garden Issue. Trees in peril. Billy Floyd TV. Cole’s Collision paused. Patten’s South Street apartments filling. Chez Pierre matriarch Pierrette Baldwin dies. State Police add 19 Mustangs to fleet. Dem. John Gunther of Toy Works to challenge Matt Simpson for Assembly. Long-time employee now owns George’s House of Pizza in SGF. Stec, Simpson, Woerner all balk at NYS electric school bus mandate. Debut music this week by GF …

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Queensbury grad Brigid Duffy picked 3rd in pro lacrosse draft

Female lacrosse player wearing Army number 21 jersey runs with stick during game.

Queensbury grad Brigid Duffy, a senior at Army West Point, was selected third overall last Wednesday by the Maryland Charm in the inaugural Women’s Lacrosse League draft. Previously named to the US Lacrosse Women’s National Field Team, Duffy currently holds the Army West Point program record for goals, shots, free position goals, ground balls and draw controls.

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Rogge has it rolling

A man and woman smile while sitting together on a dock with sailboats and mountains visible in the background.

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

In 2020 Queensbury native Mike Rogge bought a storied but defunct magazine called Mountain Gazette for $5,000.

Six years later it’s nominated for a prestigious National Magazine Award in the category of Feature Writing vs. industry heavyweights The New Yorker, New York, The Atlantic and Harper’s, plus Texas Monthy and a specialty medical mag called STAT.

The American Society of Magazine Editors awards will …

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St. Mary’s adds 3 nuns: School principal plus 2, & a new convent

Three women wearing black religious habits with white coils and cross necklaces stand together indoors.

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Sister Laurie-Marie Parisi, C.R. will be installed on July 1 as the new principal of St. Mary’s Academy Catholic School in Glens Falls.

She will be accompanied by two other Sisters of the Resurrection, said St. Mary’s Church. The three will live in the parish rectory on Warren Street, now to be referred to as St. Mary’s Convent.

Father Scott VanDerveer will move to …

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Glens Falls ups parking downtown to 3 hours from 2, & more efforts

Aerial map showing an urban district with buildings, streets, and a red boundary line outlining a specific area.

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Glens Falls Common Council voted at its April 14 meeting to extend the parking limit in the downtown Central Business Improvement District from two to three hours. The limit is for Monday to Friday, only, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Most other areas of the City will have no daytime restrictions.

Overnight parking is still not allowed on City streets.

“When people …

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