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By Zander Frost & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor

F.W. Webb has withdrawn its request to re-zone a 15-acre site on Quaker Road so it could build a 76,000 square-foot distribution center and store across from Garvey Volkswagen and Kia.

Why withdraw the application?

“I can read the room,” F.W. Webb Chief Operating Officer Bob Mucciarone told The Chronicle Tuesday. “We’re getting the stall. It takes three weeks …

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted with permission from the Summer 2023 edition of the Fort George Post, The Newsletter of the © Lake George Battlefield Park (Fort George) Alliance.

Two years after the British surrender at Yorktown and with the cessation of hostilities, a semblance of tranquility enveloped the lake valleys.

In the spring of 1782 George Washington established his headquarters in Newburgh …

By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff

On Wednesday, August 30, there will be a “Super Blue Moon,” an event that won’t happen
again until 2032, according to the website Time and Date.

Full moons can occur at any point in the moon’s rotation. A supermoon is when the moon is full and near or at the perigree (the moon’s closest point to Earth), making it appear bigger and brighter than …

Dear Editor,

Under three administrations (myself, Mayor Akins and Mayor Regan), there was no Communications Director.

We were still able to keep the public informed of what was with other duties, issued press releases and communicated with the public.

My administration worked very hard to bring the City out of financial distress, and part of that effort was the difficult process of eliminating some employees’ positions in the City.

I’m …

By Zander Frost & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor

Bob Mucciarone, F.W. Webb’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, took a phone call from The Chronicle Monday afternoon.

He said the Massachusetts company — “the largest wholesale supplier of plumbing, heating, cooling and industrial PVF products in the Northeast” — is still intent on getting approval of a zoning change so it can build a 76,000 square foot distribution …