Sunday, December 8, 2024

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Ryan & Erin Connor’s plans for Union Square

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

In September Queensbury couple Ryan and Erin Connor’s EBRM Properties LLC bought the four-story 48,000 square foot Union Square building from long-time owner Tom O’Neill for $1,665,000.

The former shirt factory at 2-15 Broad Street faces Broad, South and Pine Streets. Mr. O’Neill put it on the market last spring for $2.35 million.

The couple are RPI grads. Ryan graduated from South Glens Falls …

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Granville’s Dancing Ewe eyes Saratoga for a wine bar; seeks backers: ‘I’m with Ewe’

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Dancing Ewe Farm in Granville aims to launch a wine bar and events space in downtown Saratoga Springs in 2025.

Owner, cheesemaker and sommelier Jody Somers wrote in an e-blast, “After a lot of questions, deliberations, number-crunching, dreaming, sweating, and no small amount of anxiety, I am finally ready to commit to moving the Dancing Ewe cheese and salumi operation to downtown Saratoga.

“Our …

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Glens Falls Mayor calls budget for his $100,000 Oc Tax grant ‘a start’; says he ‘made up’ numbers

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The financial spreadsheet that Mayor Bill Collins presented to the Warren County Occupancy Tax Committee in support of his request for a $100,000 grant in 2025 is more of “a working document,” he tells The Chronicle.

The total expenditure is just shy of $226,000 on the document the Mayor headlined “Glens Falls Business Improvement District Event Growth Budget.”

The Oc Tax committee approved it …

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Generating $100,000 for Operation Santa

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

“It’s about the kids,” is the repeated mantra from a small roomful of big guys raising big bucks in the Small Business Challenge for the local charity Operation Santa Claus.

We’re stuffed tight into the studio of WCKM radio station 98.5 FM, where morning hosts Dan Miner and Pete Cloutier are joined by about a half-dozen men promoting the Challenge that the late Pete …

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Blind massage therapist plans ‘Blind Rock Wellness’ in Queensbury

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Medical massage clinic Outta Sight Massotherapy, located in the Mount Royal Plaza on Route 9 in Queensbury, gets its name from the fact that one of its owners, Brianna Gregory, a 2008 Queensbury grad, is legally blind.

Now, after two years in business, Ms. Gregory, 34, and her fiance John Krieg, 33, are planning to open a new business called Blind Rock Wellness across …

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