This week is our Autumn Home issue. Lots of great information to get your home ready for fall and winter. Telescope Casual Furniture in Granville goes nimble, continues to be “Made in U.S.A.” Sacandaga Whitewater Park to be built between Lake Luzerne and Hadley. Construction to start in the spring. Taste of the North Country results; 6,200 people attend, Kiwanis net $50,000! Open since 1929, Massie’s Restaurant for sale in …
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Wow! Wood Park is great venue
By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Last weekend’s American Music Festival for Lake George instantly put the new Charles R. Wood Park on the map — and established it as a game changer.
Repeat: Game changer.
This is an outdoor venue with enormous possibilities. It enables concert events that simply weren’t possible here before.
Some things can be improved. There are kinks to work out. But as essentially the first …
Read More »Finch planning $20-million modernization of paper mill
By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Finch Paper in Glens Falls is planning a $20-million modernization project, and is seeking $3.06-million in state economic development funding to help pay for it.
The Capital Region’s Economic Development Council in Albany announced the plan in a presentation on Sept. 16 to the state advisory panel that will decide how to allocate $750-million in a fourth round of grants.
Documents on the council’s …
Read More »Our September 25 issue
It’s our Health & Fitness Quarterly! Also, this Sunday is the 22nd annual Glens Falls Kiwanis Club’s Taste of the North Country food festival in City Park, in downtown Glens Falls. The Chronicle is the event’s lead sponsor. We publish the event’s official program that’s included in this week’s issue. Also, Cathy raves about Wood Park in Lake George as a game-changing venue after last weekend’s American Music Festival. Finch …
Read More »Opinion: Civic Center offers are not what City is seeking
By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Let’s not get too excited about the two bids the City received last Friday for the Glens Falls Civic Center. (An earlier bid made on Sept. 2 has been withdrawn.)
The first bid opened was from the Coalition to Save Our Civic Center, a well-meaning group of local businesspeople that has managed to corral $600,000 in commitments and wants to keep the building under …
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