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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Adirondack United, the highly successful girls hockey team comprised of players from several local high schools, will move from the Glens Falls Recreation Center behind the YMCA to the Harding Mazzotti Arena downtown as it seeks its third straight state championship.

Head Coach Jeff Willis said part of why they moved is that they couldn’t get their own locker room at the Rec Center.…

Chronicle reporter Ben Westcott writes: Laura Garrant’s Facebook comment after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Sept. 10 has roiled the Moreau town council race.

“I’m praying for the children who were shot today while in school. I’m not praying for someone who spews hate for a living,” wrote Mrs. Garrant, the endorsed Moreau United and Moreau Democratic Committee endorsed town council candidate.

She wrote in …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Kiwanis Club was chartered on March 25, 1925.

Originally its membership was only men, “Kiwanis ‘smartened up’ in the mid 1990s to allow female members,” says current club president Jerrod Ogden.

“We are now roughly 50% females.”

Centennial membership drive success

For its 100th year, the Club launched a membership drive. “We wanted a bold and ambitious goal of having 100 …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Margo Macero has been rocking out her own original path for most of her young life. The Glens Falls grad, 33, asked for her first guitar at age 7, she recalls. She started playing out around the region and beyond at age 12 she says.

This week Margo takes a definitive leap — with a show that focuses on her own original songs and …

Chronicle News Editor Zander Frost writes: Dottie Bartell and John Fickel open their Stony Creek Inn for the return of Dot and Johnstock, Saturday, Sept. 20, from 1 to 5 p.m. Yes, in Stony Creek.

The spirited event began in about 2008, Dot recalls. John was just recovering from cancer treatments when Dot was also diagnosed. With both hard-pressed to run the beloved Inn, their only means of support, friends …