Hot Copy

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

A “shipping delay” of the Sound of Freedom to the Glen Drive-In in Queensbury caused a social media dust-up this week.

Owner Brett Gardner booked the Jim Caviezel-led film, centered on the topic of child sex trafficking, to show last week, but said the drive did not arrive in time.

The Drive-In posted, “There seems to be some confusion on why we aren’t playing …

Glens Falls-based Arrow Financial Corporation — parent company of Glens Falls National Bank, Saratoga National Bank and Upstate Insurance — said Tuesday it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.

“Now that we have met our 2022 Form 10-K requirements, we intend to promptly prepare and file the First Quarter Form 10-Q and set a date for …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Entertainment and Music Festival — called GEM Fest — doubles in size in this, its eighth year (seventh year, if we ditch the Covid-cancelled festival of 2020).

This year, organizer Brian Michael of Heady Productions in Glens Falls tells The Chronicle, they’ll have 40 regional bands and musicians, versus 20 acts last year, performing over two days, versus last year’s one-day …

Essity announced in a press release that it “has made the difficult decision to close its tissue manufacturing operations in New York state and consolidate production at its other U.S. sites. This closure will include the South Glens Falls paper mill, Greenwich converting facility and Saratoga warehouse/distribution center.”

It said 300 jobs will be lost.

“It is never easy to decide to close a manufacturing operation,” Michael Olive, plant director …

By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff

Santore World Famous Fireworks, the company that does fireworks for Lake George Village, has branched into drones, forming a separate company, Amazing Drone Shows.

“A drone show consists of multiple drones that…have their own independent light system on them…. We can put them in the air, and we can make shapes, images, logos, words, anything you could possibly imagine,” Jeff Ward, general manager of …