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By Kevin Kelly, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: We first saw this article about what to plant in the green space between sidewalk and road — dubbed a “hellstrip,” for the challenges it presents — in a Warren County Cornell Cooperative Extension newsletter.

Writer Kevin Kelly granted The Chronicle permission to reprint. He is a Master Gardener with the Penn State Extension of Dauphin County in Pennsylvania. “Beauty can …

At the Queensbury Planning Board meeting Thursday, April 23, for the proposed Cole’s Collision project at the Route 9 site of the former Blue Moose, the applicant requested the Board table further consideration of the project.

The Board agreed to hold the meeting until July, at a date to be determined.

“The applicant is reviewing the comments from the Planning Board and the public,” project Attorney Jon Lapper told The …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Developer Chris Patten’s apartments in his new, signature blue multi-use property at 56 South Street are filling.

Sixteen of the 20 apartments on the second and third floors — above the retail-level restaurants, shops and hair salon — are listed as currently rented.

Two of the 16 one-bedrooms and two of four two-bedrooms remain available.

Basic monthly rent in this building is $1,225 to …

Ben Westcott writes: John Gunther, who ran The Toy Works in Middle Falls just west of Greenwich for 47 years, announced he’ll challenge Republican Matt Simpson for the 114th State Assembly Seat.

Mr. Gunther will run on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines.

“For the past six years, Matt Simpson has been a do-nothing Assemblyman in the do-nothing State Assembly,” Mr. Gunther, who lives in Shushan, was quoted in …

Chronicle Staff Writer Ben Westcott writes: Matt Zecchini, a 12-year employee, and his fiancée Hayley Cole took over on March 23 as owners of the House of Pizza in South Glens Falls.

They renamed it George’s House of Pizza in honor of George Katsios, who started the restaurant in 1976 and passed away last February.

His daughter Demi Katsios kept the shop going for a year after his death.

“She …