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Golf time, with Patrick Turley

Editor’s note: Patrick Turley is back home — his father was Leo Turley, the late long-time Queensbury Hotel general manager — after a golf career in which he was a club and teaching pro and a career caddie in major tournaments. Now he’s at Sunnyside Par 3 in Queensbury, “where fun and jr. golf reign supreme.” He approached The Chronicle with this debut effort.

By Patrick Turley, Chronicle Freelance

HELLO, …

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March 2021, he kayaked length of Lake George, coping with ice

By Bob Weinman, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: In 2021, Bob Weinman of Queensbury set out to kayak the length of Lake George in every month of the year. This is the third dispatch in a monthly 12-part series.

Paddled it. Skied it. Today — in March 2021 — I was going to bike the length of Lake George.

Inspired by photos of folks fat-biking frozen lakes in …

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Our March 31 front page

Support Small Business! Bank robbery. Lake George school race. GF school in flux: 6 top administration jobs are open or shifting. Bob Liebig, 94, started Utopia biz at age of 70. Brayden Dock, 15, vies at Augusta Sunday on Golf TV. Says comedian Tim Dillon great at Egg; has built huge following outside the corporate channels. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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Glens Falls grad new CEO: Boston biotech business

By Zander Frost & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor

Katie Haviland, 46, Glens Falls High School class of 1994, is about to head a publicly traded biotech company, Blueprint Medicine Corporation.

On April 4, the Wesleyan University and Harvard Business School graduate will take over as CEO and President of a Boston/Cambridge firm that has 500 employees and a stock market valuation of approximately $4-billion.

She’ll also join …

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New South St. bakery says apps generate 75% of biz, but they take 25%

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Benita Anderson, owner of Bella Lyn’s Bakery on South Street in Glens Falls, told The Chronicle that delivery apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, account for “probably like 75%” of her business, but they also take their share of the money — 25% of all orders.

“I have mixed emotions about it,” Mrs. Anderson said. “I don’t necessarily like it, but I look …

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