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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The 50th annual Adirondack Balloon Festival — taking place Sept. 21-25 — will include a pre-festival Wednesday cocktail party at Hiland Park; a Thursday parade from downtown Glens Falls to the opening launch in Crandall Park; and a “record” number of special shapes, organizers said.

The festival was founded in 1972 by Walter Grishkot and was long run by the exuberant Mr. Grishkot and …

By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff

With the Barbie movie breaking box office records, Lake George native Margaux Lange is thriving, too.

Ms. Lange, who lives now in Beacon, N.Y., has been making jewelry from Barbie body parts for around 23 years.

“I’ve been making Barbie jewelry for a long, long time,” she told The Chronicle. “There’s always been a niche for it, but now with the Barbie Movie it’s …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Larry Novik, Bonacio Construction spokesperson and Director of Business Development, rejects depictions that their $36-million Spring City Development project on South Street has stalled.

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” Mr. Novik told The Chronicle.

“We are facing the same economic challenges that almost every construction project has, of rising inflation and interest rates…

“With those challenges, what has changed, a key element …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

A total redo of Heritage Hall in the Cool Insuring Arena is under way, and a capital campaign is imminent to fund the rest of the $1-million project.

“It’s a full renovation,” Cool Insuring Arena General Manager Jeff Mead told The Chronicle. “We gutted the whole room.” Work started in May.

Heritage Hall was “quite frankly kind of falling apart,” he said.

Mr. Mead …