By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
Mark Faille, who in the past decade has become a major farm presence in Washington County raising “100% grass-fed beef and pasture-raised pork,” last Friday bought the 197-acre Pole Valley golf course in the Town of Hartford and renamed it Hartford Greens Country Club. His son Dylan, 28, is managing it.
Dylan told The Chronicle in a phone interview Sunday evening, “It’s really touching how …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
The local children’s charity Operation Santa Claus has cancelled, due to Covid, what would have been the 35th Operation Santa Ball at the Sagamore, which has organizers thinking Christmas in August.
“Fretting” might be the better word.
Founding director Frank Munoff contacted The Chronicle to say that Operation Santa faces a significant drop in funding in a year when demand will likely be up …
Read More »By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
At 23, racer Demetrios Drellos — touted as “The Greek Streak” — has been knocking on the door with numerous second- and third-place finishes at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vermont, but Sunday, Aug. 3, he barged right through it.
Track publicist Justin St. Louis enthused, “Queensbury, N.Y., youngster Drellos blasted through the Pepsi Sportsman Modified field from his 17th-place starting position on the …
Read More »By Meg Hagerty, Chronicle Freelance
If it’s a calm morning on Lake George in the summer, kids know to start showing up at about 7 at Pete Collins’ house.
Usually the 83-year-old Mr. Collins is already up and about with his cup of coffee, and when there are at least a couple of kids hanging out on his dock, the Cleverdale man fires up his boat.
These kids, most in …
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Prime-Time Seniors issue Keeping the Glens Falls in Glens Falls Toyota. Pete Collins at 83. Fast-growing organic meat farmer buys & son to manage Pole Valley Golf. Operation Santa cancels December gala at the Sagamore; seeks individual donors. SUNY Adk. will open Sept. 9. Racer Demetrios Drellos of Queensbury wins big in Vt. at Devil’s Bowl Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!…
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