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Women in Business issue: 32 pages! Marathon Dance to the Great Escape. JG3 in the Sweet 16. Watchdog gets LDC seat. Cathy’s rotten turkey saga. Finch at peak pulpwood. Covid vaccination now open to those 50 & up. HF Strand goes live on April 2. Larry Bennett, former town supervisor, stable mainstay, teacher, has died at 82. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment …
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Fitzy the barber of Fort Edward
By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
“Fitzy” Fitzsimmons grew up on Third Street in Glens Falls, graduated from St. Mary’s Academy and fondly recalls the heyday when downtown sidewalks on Thursday nights filled with “people going out to meet people.”
But Fitzy, given name Harold Patrick, is wholly Fort Edward now. “I came down here in ’62 and been here ever since. It’s my 59th year,” says the proprietor of Fitzy’s …
Read More »Chris Patten persists
By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Despite opposition including from Mayor Dan Hall, Chris Patten is holding firm to his plan to buy and develop the wedge of current green space he is under contract to buy from 333 Glen at the intersection of Glen and Bay Streets.
Now he envisions building 43 apartments, with no mixed use.
He told The Chronicle he plans to submit “fully comprehensive, fully conforming …
Read More »Lake George plans a busy summer: Thursday fireworks, more
By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Lake George Mayor Bob Blais said he anticipates a nearly full roster of events this summer, after events were cancelled or greatly scaled back last year by Covid.
“We are putting together everything we have done in the past, including fireworks, in hopes we will be able to do them. Based on what we have heard about the Covid and vaccines, we are …
Read More »Jim Siplon’s approach as CEO of EDC Warren Co.
By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Last summer EDC Warren County board member Jim Siplon stepped in as interim CEO of the economic development corporation after the unexpected death of its long-time president Ed Bartholomew.
Last month the EDC made the appointment permanent. Mr. Siplon, 55, is being paid $130,000, Mr. Bartholomew’s salary.
“Since July, our board has seen firsthand how he energizes people, marshals resources and catalyzes progress through …
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