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Fall is in the Air issue | Joseph Girard III chooses Syracuse. Bed tax $$ spurs
NYS basketball tourney’s likely return to GF. Bunker Hill Organic Creamery opens. Adk. Film Festival, Part III. Adk. Thunder open regular season Sat. at home vs. Beast. Trees need work & cost soars; Glens Falls budget stressed. Dunham’s Bay Marina sells for $1.8-million. Albino red-tailed hawk seen in Washington County. Pages of real estate …

By Patrick Daley, Chronicle Staff Writer

On Sunday, the Glens Falls Symphony dashed from the starting line in what will be a marathon season of exclusively Ludwig van Beethoven and Leonard Bernstein, celebrating the composers’ 250th and 100th birthdays (in 2019 and 2018, respectively).

Opening the festivities was Beethoven’s Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, an intentional choice equating both composers to the Titan who stole fire from the gods …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Glens Falls High School basketball standout Joseph Girard III will announce his college choice Sunday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m., in the Queensbury Hotel’s Adirondack Room.

The all-time leading scorer in New York State history will select from his final six schools: Boston College, Duke, Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State and Syracuse.

The most intensely recruited area athlete in recent memory, Girard also quarterbacks …

Destination Downtown issue | Tedra Cobb interview, Scoharie limo crash. Bolton Fire Dept. Centennial Parade, BBQ & more, Oct. 13. JG3 announcement Sunday. SGF schools monitoring all in-house emails & social media of HS students. In Washington, D.C. The Phillips Collection is nice museum, with some Adk. links. 3rd Adirondack Film Fest opens Thursday (Oct. 18). Pages of real estate listings… Find your dream home! Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Frank Mineo’s planned restaurant in the former Bistro Tallulah space at 26 Ridge Street in Glens Falls will be called gaslight.

“Lower case ‘g’, with a period at the end,” he told The Chronicle.

He said the name “was a family effort. I tweaked it a little bit. I like the simplicity and satire. It wasn’t an easy process.”

Mr. Mineo’s father Charles bought …