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By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Last week’s storm that saw parts of the Buffalo area get socked with five feet of lake effect snow prompted me to wonder: How do they cope with such an onslaught?

We put the question out there on the Internet and urged people who might know people in the Buffalo vicinity to put us in touch with them.

That led to the following e-mail exchange …

52 packed pages this week! The Flames are on fire…8 game winning streak! Adk. Flames jersey auction raises $16,594 for Wounded Warriors. Queensbury football going for second straight NYS title. How do the folks in Buffalo deal with all that snow?…We get some answers from the people living through it. Cuomo trying to force Dave Wick out at the Lake George Park Commission. Local band ‘Wild Adriatic’ on European tour. …

Last licks for Kitsch?

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Twenty-six years is a lot of black velvet art — but we may be seeing the end of the roll.

The Lake George Arts Project says this may be the final year for the Black Velvet Art Party, which continues to require massive work for a decreasing return, director John Strong tells The Chronicle.

This year’s BVAP, as it’s sometimes …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The Chronicle talked by phone Sunday with Congresswoman-elect Elise Stefanik in Washington, D.C., in the midst of an eight-day orientation.

Ms. Stefanik said she had “just finished a brunch with Mia Love [Utah], Mimi Walters [California], Martha McSally [Arizona] and Barbara Comstock [Virginia], who are the other newly elected Republican women.”

Ms. Stefanik at 30 is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

Ms. …

Area homelessness. Historic Glens Falls home for sale. Elise Stefanik interview. Susan Balfour gives her side of Planned Parenthood story. Glens Falls bottled water business has opponents. South Glens Falls Holiday Parade lineup. Holiday party planning. Arts and Entertainment options abound. Only 4 Chronicles until Christmas!

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