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By Patrick Daley, Chronicle Staff Writer

Let’s Be Leonard is young, talented and fun. With members hailing from Glens Falls, Queensbury, Saratoga Springs and Clifton Park, the jam-rock quintet released their debut album COW. in late November. It’s an impressive first release from lead singer and guitarist Karl Bertrand, lead guitarist and singer Matt Griffin, tenor saxophonist Connor Dunn, bassist Chris Cronin and drummer Paul Guay, …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Rocco Ientile, who owned Rocco’s Pizza shops in Fort Edward, Queensbury and Corinth, will open Rocco’s Italian-American Bistro at 132 Glen Street in downtown Glens Falls.

Mr. Ientile said he paid $225,000 for the building that formerly housed Kevin and Patty Bethel’s 132 Glen Bistro. There are also two rented apartments upstairs, he said.

He said he hopes to open the restaurant by the …

Icing up: The Sagamore and Dunham’s Bay, Adk. Brewery and Cirelli’s

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Ice is cool again. And ice bars are hot.

The Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing, Dunham’s Bay Resort overlooking Lake George, Cirelli’s Osteria in South Glens Falls, and now the Adirondack Pub and Brewery in Lake George Village: This year all four will offer outdoor bars carved from massive blocks of ice.

Typically …

Health & Fitness issue! Hacksaw Jim Duggan doing comedy, coming to Queensbury Feb. 2. Return of the ice bars. Ever had sciatica? Batman & Robin, for a cause. Civic Center gets new sign. Peter Aust out at ARCC. Manley’s Route 4 restaurant to close. 132 Glen St. Bistro sell to Rocco’s Italian-American. Cumberland Farms to build at ex-Joy Store site. Krogmann dismisses JUST Water suit, appeal to follow. No relief …

By William Loughrey, Special to The Chronicle

Charles Evans Hughes was born in Glens Falls to a woman of exceptionally strong faith and a father who was an abolitionist preacher, a head of the anti-slavery forces in the upper Hudson River Valley. Throughout his distinguished public career, Hughes was a civil rights stalwart, a role for which he has not been accorded credit.

For a century and a half, America’s …