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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Plans to create an alpine village experience called The Woods at West Mountain were met with mostly pushback Thursday at the first formal public hearing hosted by the Queensbury Planning Board on the major planned development at the West Mountain Ski Area.

Of the 12 spoken and written comments, 11 consisted primarily of concerns about the project, which proposes 252 apartment units, 64 condominium …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Who even were all these people? The Wood Theater was sold out on Friday night for Troy Ramey, an independent country-soul-rock edged singer-songwriter and effusive storyteller who’d booked the show himself, then filled the place — overbooked by about 20 seats, even, Wood Director Emily Murphy told The Chronicle — at $45 a seat.

Mr. Ramey told The Chronicle in advance of the show, …

A website offering tickets to the February 7 Cage Wars event at the Cool Insuring Arena said it is sold out as of Tuesday.

NY-21 congressional hopeful Anthony Constantino has promoted the event, offering the tickets for free. He has said Roger Stone and retired MMA fighter Jorge Masvidal will attend.

Politics aside, Cool Insuring Arena CEO Jeff Mead said he plans to host more cagematch events like this.

“The …

“The town and village of Greenwich had a week-long event that just ended, and the event was the presence in the Battenkill along the village line of a Eurasian goose that has never been seen in New York State, and some say has never been seen in the Northeastern United States,” Greenwich Supervisor Jim Nolan said at Friday’s Washington County Board of Supervisors meeting.

“It drew people from many surrounding …

Winter Home Issue! Rough start: Glens Falls in 2025. Traded houses. Moose rescue. Cool Insuring Arena. Times Union says Tague & Joy rise for GOP Congress nod; Constantino: ‘Fake News!’ Trump pardons include GF man, Hadley woman for Jan. 6, 2021. Glens Falls boys basketball has won 40 straight games. West Mountain alpine village plan gets pushback at hearing. Ice Bars return! In Lake George & Bolton. Rare goose causes …