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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

How do we count 2022? Were we on? Off? Restarting? Back to normal?

The pandemic receded from emergency to fact of life. We are still different, aren’t we, somehow, at least for now?

As 2022 closes, I’m thinking most about some ambitious efforts in local arts that had little even do with Covid.

• Spirits in the Trees got me thinking this way. “Let’s …

The Winter World University Games, billed as “the largest winter multi-sport collegiate athletic event in the world, after the Winter Olympics,” comes to the Adirondacks from January 12 to 22.

The Games’ nine venues include the Olympic Center, Speed Skating Oval, Olympic Jumping Complex, and Mt. Van Hoevenburg in Lake Placid; Gore Mountain; Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington; the Roos House at SUNY Canton; and SUNY Potsdam’s Maxcy Ice Arena and …

Former Hudson Falls basketball standout Jonathan Beagle is continuing his strong freshman season at the University of Albany — claiming his third America East Rookie of the Week title this week.

Tonight, Wednesday, December 28 at 6 p.m., his Great Danes will take on the #12 University of Virginia Cavaliers in Charlottesville. It will air on the ACC Network — Channel 388 on Spectrum in Glens Falls.

Jonathan scored 14 …

The City of Glens Falls announced “parking regulations to resume in full” in a press release entitled, “Back to reality in 2023.”

The release said, “For the first time since the pandemic started in March 2020, the City of Glens Falls will again be enforcing the parking regulations within the City beginning this Sunday (January 1, 2023).”

“To prepare our residents, workers and visitors for this, City Police Officers have …

Responding to students’ “strong” desire to return to the traditional two-day format, the 46th annual South High Marathon Dance is now scheduled for Friday and Saturday, March 3-4, 2023, at South Glens Falls High School.

“While we will be ready to change directions should conditions warrant, the current plan is to be back at the high school, the first weekend in March,” board member Gus Carayiannis said.

The last two …