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Gerarde plans golf simulators & bar at former Trustco branch on Glen Street

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Mike Gerarde plans to open a bar with 20 seats and food and two golf simulators in the 2,000 square foot former Trustco Bank location at 100 Glen Street in downtown Glens Falls.

It expands PSG Golf, his Saratoga Golf Simulator and training business which opened in Saratoga in 2023.

“Big difference is we are going to have a much larger bar, and we’re …

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Our August 28 front page

Labor Day Issue! 1, 2, 3 Music Festivals this weekend!! Argyle arrests in dog deaths. CDTA launches bus 713, links GF, Saratoga. She went parasailing for 97th birthday. Hudson Falls will field varsity football team after a hiatus. Warren County may guarantee some ‘Signature’ events 3 years in Oc Tax funding. 3 Democratic members of Congress held ‘town hall’ in Glens Falls. Big poaching: 30 deer. Concerts, comedy, shows… The

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Former [farmacy] chef Colin Miner at Bistro LeRoux

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Colin Miner has joined the crew at Bistro LeRoux on Route 149 in Lake George, under chef-owners Jacob and Tiffany Guay.

“I’m really happy to be working with Chef Jacob,” Chef Miner said. He said they share some of the same culinary experiences, if about a decade apart.

Newly married and with a stepdaughter, Chef Miner, 35, said the new position allows him more …

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Landry: Glens Falls faces ‘monstrous’ rise in cost of health insurance in ’26

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: “Insurance companies are already approaching us with 20 to 24% increase” in health insurance prices for 2026, Glens Falls Ward 2 Councilman Bob Landry tells The Chronicle.

He warned the Aug. 12 Common Council meeting of a “monstrous” increase in costs “if we do nothing.

“We’re doing everything we can right now to figure out a way to get that down to a more …

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Stinky’s Coffee will open first bricks & mortar location in former Autoworld in SGF

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Since 2022, Ryan McNaughton has operated Stinky’s Coffee as a mobile business that developed a following at farmers markets and local events.

Now the 2005 South High graduate is preparing to open his first bricks and mortar location in the new Moreau Commons redevelopment of the former Autoworld property on Route 9 north of Northway Exit 17.

“It was just a no-brainer,” Ryan said. …

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