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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Maple syrup making is getting a late start this winter.

“Last year we started producing Feb. 8,” Randy Galusha, owner of Toad Hill Maple Farm in Athol, told The Chronicle.

This year is “more like an old-fashioned sugar season we used to have when I was younger,” he said.

“It’s been a very cold winter and things haven’t really broken free to start production …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The vacant clubhouse of the former Glens Falls Tennis and Swim Club on East Sanford Street burned to the ground early Saturday morning.

The start-up not-for-profit Crockwell Preserve aimed to re-use the building in its environmental park plan. The 922 square foot building dated from 1975, said the City of Glens Falls.

What happens now?

“This was definitely not on the Bingo card,” says …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Glens Falls-based Arrow Financial Corporation will acquire Utica-based Adirondack Bank, the banks announced on Feb. 26. Arrow operates Glens Falls National and Saratoga National Banks and Upstate Insurance agency.

Adirondack operates 19 branches in Oneida, Herkimer, Franklin, Essex and Clinton counties, and a loan production office in Onondaga County.

It is not to be confused with Saratoga Springs-based Adirondack Trust.

Arrow CEO David S. DeMarco …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Nearly two years after announcing his plans, Tim Ortiz will finally open Glens Falls Liquor, his wine and liquor store at 280 Glen Street in downtown.

The 2003 Queensbury grad and popular acoustic musician aims to open Monday March 9, with a grand opening and ribbon cutting on Friday, March 13.

“My goal was to open in time for St. Patrick’s Day,” he told …

Del Lago Restaurant & Bar in Lake George suffered a fire on Feb. 25 at 8:53 a.m., said the Facebook page the Fires Around the Falls: Tri-County Fire History. “Crews from Lake George and North Queensbury initially knocked down the fire in approximately 20 minutes, and the building required extensive overhaul,” it said. Del Lago owner Yerbol Kenzhebekov told NEWS10 that he believes everything is lost to the damage from …