Axios Media Trends on Tuesday broke the story nationally that RocaNews, the Internet news business co-founded in 2020 by Glens Falls native Max Frost, “has raised $4.4 million in a seed round led by Ori Allon, the co-founder and executive chairman of Compass Real Estate.”
Max, son of Chronicle owners Mark Frost and Sandra Hutchinson and brother of The Chronicle’s Zander Frost, is Roca President and Chief Operating Officer.
Roca’s …
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Viewed on a brutally cold and overcast day last week, the new Ice Castles attraction in Lake George looked very much still a work in progress but build manager Anna Closser said “we’re very close” to opening. Tuesday they announced they’ll open this weekend, Sunday, Jan. 23.
This project “growing” in the Festival Commons at Charles R. Wood Park is not built from ice …
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By Mark Frost & Zander Frost, Chronicle Editor & Staff Writer
West Mountain is making a big move — launching a ski academy run by Thomas Vonn, a former Olympian who also coached and was married to three-time Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.
“Thomas can coach at any level,” said West Mountain co-owner/operator Spencer Montgomery. Besides Lindsey Vonn, “he’s coached at the World Cup level and raced at the World …
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Hartford Town Supervisor Dana Haff called New York State’s new cannabis law “unconstitutional” and “against Brown vs. the Board of Education.”
Mr. Haff told The Chronicle he takes issue with the part of the law that says the Cannabis Control Board will “implement a social and economic equity plan and actively promote applicants from communities disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition and promote racial, ethnic, …
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By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
At the age of 85 and finishing his 50th year in office, Lake George Mayor Bob Blais’s “Annual Report to the Village Taxpayers” is as newsy and compelling as ever. Here’s just some of what I gleaned from the four-page report issued as 2021 turned to 2022.
• It may be time for Lake George Village to have its own police force again. Mayor Blais …
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