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Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Colin Miner has joined the crew at Bistro LeRoux on Route 149 in Lake George, under chef-owners Jacob and Tiffany Guay.

“I’m really happy to be working with Chef Jacob,” Chef Miner said. He said they share some of the same culinary experiences, if about a decade apart.

Newly married and with a stepdaughter, Chef Miner, 35, said the new position allows him more …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: “Insurance companies are already approaching us with 20 to 24% increase” in health insurance prices for 2026, Glens Falls Ward 2 Councilman Bob Landry tells The Chronicle.

He warned the Aug. 12 Common Council meeting of a “monstrous” increase in costs “if we do nothing.

“We’re doing everything we can right now to figure out a way to get that down to a more …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Since 2022, Ryan McNaughton has operated Stinky’s Coffee as a mobile business that developed a following at farmers markets and local events.

Now the 2005 South High graduate is preparing to open his first bricks and mortar location in the new Moreau Commons redevelopment of the former Autoworld property on Route 9 north of Northway Exit 17.

“It was just a no-brainer,” Ryan said. …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Kathleen “Kate” Boyle of Queensbury addressed the Warren County Board of Supervisors at their Friday meeting.

“I’m here today because nitrous oxide abuse has devastated my family.

Ms. Boyle continued, with emotion: “On May 7, my son, Zack Ignazio, who struggled with addiction, inhaled nitrous oxide from a canister he purchased at a local smoke shop.

“He stopped breathing and his heart stopped.

“EMS …

“Welcome home!,” Irma Hamblin said as she and husband Jeff cut the ribbon Friday afternoon on their revived Grumbellies restaurant — in the former Glens Falls National Bank Fort Edward branch.

Newcomers and dozens of former regulars from Fort Ann, Vermont, Bolton and beyond came out for the grand opening, Mrs. Hamblin told The Chronicle.

“We’ve been busy since 10 a.m.”

Their liquor license lapsed as the renovation took longer …