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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

While many of us are tuning into the 99th Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade on NBC, the Caimano family of Queensbury, dressed in matching coveralls, will be helping guide Snoopy down Sixth Avenue.

Matt and Judy Caimano, their grown children Sarah (with boyfriend Sam Libby) and Ross (with girlfriend Savannah Bond) got their final assignment last week.

“We’re on the Beagle Scout Snoopy balloon, the most …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

O’Malley’s Log Grill at 35 Main St. in South Glens Falls closed two years ago. Jerad Ross, grandson of founder Michael O’Malley, is reviving the legacy.

He plans to reopen the pub in the first or second week of December.

“It’s one of the oldest bars in the area,” Mr. Ross said. “My grandpa started it 48 years ago.”

When Michael O’Malley passed away …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Boralex, the Canada-based renewable energy producer, plans to build a 100 megawatt solar power facility on 530 acres leased from about 30 private land owners in Fort Edward.

The Schuylerville-based not-for-profit, the Grassland Bird Trust, claims it will be “disastrous” to birds and wants more acreage preserved than is planned or required.

In an Oct. 31 press release, the Trust said it “supports renewable …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

From Dec. 4-13, Henry Knox’s ‘Noble Train of Artillery’ will be celebrated as part of the nation’s 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution.

In the winter of 1775, Knox — a 25-year-old bookseller — led the way in transporting 60 tons of cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston.

Their arrival ‘changed the tide of the Revolution,’ Fort Ticonderga writes,’ freeing Boston from a nearly …

By Ben Westcott , Chronicle Staff Writer

The Washington County Board of Supervisors approved a 2026 budget that increases the property tax levy by 16.97% and cuts 10 full-time and 12 part-time county jobs.

“I feel particularly horrible about this entire process,” said Board Chair Robert Henke (Argyle). “This has been a terrible sort of deal for everybody, and I certainly feel as strongly for employees as anybody, and invoking …