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Boating & golf get NYS limited OK

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

New York State golf courses can open, marinas can operate, and recreational boating is now officially allowed, after New York’s Empire State Development altered its rules Saturday.

Many restrictions still apply.

Airway Meadows Golf Club in Gansevoort opened on Saturday, said Joan Heber, who owns and operates the course with her husband James. She said it has been “very challenging and exhausting.” Golfers must call …

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Carrie Woerner: Planning for what’s next…

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

“All coronavirus impact, all the time” is how Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner describes her work since the budget was passed. “Principally it’s about untangling the web at the Department of Labor, helping to get people Unemployment, interpreting the guidance for essential business,” says the Democrat whose 113th District covers parts of Washington and Saratoga Counties.

Things are “getting better” with unemployment claims, she says, but …

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Kelly Casey of Glens Falls, a nurse on NYC frontline

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Kelly Casey, Glens Falls High School Class of 1996, is a traveling nurse currently working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Contracted to work in the ICU of the cancer treatment hospital this winter, instead she found herself in the center of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

“I’m not the front lines,” Ms. Casey says. “I am the …

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Our April 30 issue

Lawn & Garden Issue! Boating & golf get NYS limited OK. No hugs for Betty: ‘Nobody wants to kill grandma’ Carrie Woerner: Planning for what’s next… Saratoga Racetrack: Can it open? Crowd? Kelly Casey of GF, a nurse on NYC frontline. Senate hopefuls Stec & Davis split on lifting PAUSE. Music, art, more now live online! Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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Our April 16 issue

Sign Up for The Chronicle Email List! Cuomo Covid Fauci Trump. How Lake George’s leaders see things. No slowdown in the egg business. Hudson Headwaters: Some optimism Covid won’t hit here as hard, but urges: Follow the rules. John Strough envisions strong tourism season in summer, fall. Sorrentino’s in SGF: Selling ‘tons’ of meat. Glens Falls Y: Closed but busy; most members still paying dues. Music, art, more now live …

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