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By Michael King, Special to The Chronicle

Most people of a certain age who grew up in the city well remember the Glens Falls Insurance Company. Many of us had relatives or friends who worked there. For well over a century it was a major area employer, selling insurance nationwide. National headquarters were located in the iconic white marble building that stood downtown until the mid 1970s where Bay and …

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By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Sunday, April 5, The Log Jam Restaurant turned 50 years old. It was on April 5, l976 that brothers Pete and Tim Bailey of Bolton registered to do business as The Log Jam. They’d built it from logs they harvested on the mountains above Lake George.

Two years after opening, the Baileys sold The Log Jam to Roy and Jeanne Tonnesen. Roy had worked with …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The chart is from a Powerpoint presentation by the Capital District Transportation Authority — CDTA — on Monday night, April 6, at Crandall Public Library. It was shared later with The Chronicle at our request.

CDTA says target ridership is 15 passengers per hour. Glens Falls area buses are falling considerably short of it.

The purpose of the meeting was “to gather feedback for …