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Bars & eateries react as NYS adds new limits on live music

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Sometime in the last week, the New York State Liquor Authority website updated its rules about live entertainment at restaurants and bars, sending area venues and musicians into an online tailspin.

The Liquor Authority says now on its Website, “Currently, only incidental music performances are safe and permissible.

By “incidental,” the Authority says it means,“Music should be incidental to the dining experience and not …

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Our August 27 front page

April Fools Greatest Hits! Boating boom continues. Her hunch was right: Counted 7 loons in Eagle Lake census. Bennett’s Riding Stables in Luzerne busy. Whitehall floods after 6-inch rain. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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Tense rally but some common ground?

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

A “Defund the Police” rally led by a self-described socialist Monday in City Park drew a larger crowd of angry pro-police protestors, but ended with a glimmer of mutual respect. “We had great conversations at the end, after things got quiet. That’s called building bridges and it is what happened. It is beautiful,” Mike Kibling of South Glens Falls told The Chronicle Tuesday morning.…

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Bowling alleys finally get OK; ‘had a real good day yesterday’

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Now that New York State is allowing bowling centers to operate, is Doug Bohannon, owner of Kingpins Alley in South Glens Falls, optimistic?

“We’re open, so that’s optimistic as it is,” he told The Chronicle Tuesday. “We’ll see.”

“I had a real good day here yesterday,” he said. “We were busy all day. They wore their masks and people had fun.”

They can operate at …

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Former Congressman Murphy & Jen Hogan buy Lake George house

Former Democratic Congressman Scott Murphy and his wife Jennifer Hogan have purchased a Lake George house at Bolton Landing for $1.54-million, according to Warren County’s listed real estate transactions. The purchased closed on Aug. 7.

The couple still own the former McMullen mansion across from Crandall Park in Glens Falls but they and their three children reside in New York City.

Mr. Murphy, 50, served part of one term in …

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