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Neighbors balk; Glens Falls Planning Board tables 196 Ridge

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: More than a dozen neighbors spoke for an hour at the Wednesday, Nov. 5, Glens Falls Planning Board meeting urging the board not to accept plans for the 196 Ridge Street development planned by the Snyder family.

The board decided to table the project.

Planning board member Christopher Reed Jr. said, although the project as designed “checks all the boxes,” it doesn’t pass the …

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Our November 13 front page

Election Charts! Can Elise win? Bonacio gets its parking. Mayor Bill’s plea. Chester St. friction over GF mental health group home. Couple plans ‘Hometown Shop,’ Patten South St. bldg. Fort Ann girls seeks NYS soccer title in Final Four this weekend. Neighbors balk; GF Planning Board tables 196 Ridge. BOCES breaks ground: $98M Wilton Campus, Sept. ’27 open. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts &

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Our November 6 front page

Election Results! Palmer cruises, Dems big in GF; Strough wins Qby re-election. Soccer success. First look: The new apartments atop former Sandy’s Clam Bar. Washington Co. budget: 16.97% hike, cut 63 jobs. Jimmer got emotional: Glens Falls induction. John Austin award to late Bill Gates Jan. 24. Glens Falls Market ‘excited’ for winter at the Ed. Sentence: 25-years-to-life, 2024 shooting, Pearl St., Glens Falls. Saratoga Plan opens Curtis Preserve in …

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Some urge ‘Get tougher’ with ‘day spenders’

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The public was invited to weigh in at the Oct. 24 meeting of the Day User Task Force Committee.

Drew Gerster said he moved to Glens Falls from Buffalo two years ago and that he had been “a homeless drug addict for 10 years” throughout New York before he “got out of it himself.”

He said, “Nothing’s being done” to fix the situation at …

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Ben races at soon-to-open ADK Karting at Aviation Mall

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday I got behind the wheel at ADK Karting Experience ahead of its Nov. 12 opening at Aviation Mall.

Friendly staff gave some pre-race instructions. Then it was time for me and five others in my ‘race’ to don our helmets and hop into our electric karts.

The karts came from England. The 57,000 square foot track was built by an Italian company with …

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