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By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

2022 was by far The Chronicle’s biggest digital year ever. Our Facebook and Instagram posts reached over 1.7 million people, over a million more than last year.

Multiple posts exceeded 100,000 people reached. The biggest exceeded 626,000!

We did more ‘hard news’ posts this year, responding to reader feedback.

Meanwhile, our digital subscriptions grew by two-thirds — from 6,000 when the year began to …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Two must-see events got me to New York City on a weekend in November.

One, “Edward Hopper’s New York,” a major show focused on my favorite American artist, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. (See coverage at right.)

Two, comedian Shane Gillis performing at The Town Hall near Times Square as part of the New York Comedy Festival.

The clincher was that both my …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

How do we count 2022? Were we on? Off? Restarting? Back to normal?

The pandemic receded from emergency to fact of life. We are still different, aren’t we, somehow, at least for now?

As 2022 closes, I’m thinking most about some ambitious efforts in local arts that had little even do with Covid.

• Spirits in the Trees got me thinking this way. “Let’s …

The Winter World University Games, billed as “the largest winter multi-sport collegiate athletic event in the world, after the Winter Olympics,” comes to the Adirondacks from January 12 to 22.

The Games’ nine venues include the Olympic Center, Speed Skating Oval, Olympic Jumping Complex, and Mt. Van Hoevenburg in Lake Placid; Gore Mountain; Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington; the Roos House at SUNY Canton; and SUNY Potsdam’s Maxcy Ice Arena and …

Happy New Year!! Cathy: Year in Arts. Mark in NYC. What went viral. NY losing residents fastest in the nation. Why Carla & Tom Burhoe sold Canoe Island Lodge. Return of the Polar Plunge. World Winter University Games Lake Placid, Gore. Stewart’s: Holiday Match $2+-million, local kids charities. Colgate Resolutions to sing at Crandall. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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