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By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

I’m new at covering Planning Board meetings. I find them interesting (though exhausting). You learn a lot, about specific projects, about a community, about aroused citizens and about the challenge these volunteer board members face.

I expected fireworks at the July 18 Moreau Planning Board meeting. The controversial Biochar waste-heating project was on the agenda, but it was the final item, meaning the packed, …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

The Queensbury Hotel unveiled its $3.8-million expansion and renovation. It introduced the new 5,200 square-foot Adirondack Ballroom that it said can now accommodate 300 to 500 people. It added a banquet kitchen that’s even air-conditioned, an industry rarity. Read much more about it below…

Ed & Zack Moore and Tyler Herrick say big ballroom is key to Queensbury Hotel’s future

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The Glens Falls Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 4:45 p.m. at City Hall on several matters including Saratoga Springs developer Sonny Bonacio’s plans for South and Elm Street. The meetings will also be streamed live on YouTube. See CityofGlensFalls.com for links.

On the agenda is a Site Plan Review for Mr. Bonacio’s SpringCity Development Group — listed …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

A year after announcing plans to launch in Bolton Landing, two couples who operate in such hot spots as New York, L.A. and Hudson, have opened The Gem in the long idle former Sagamore Pub across from the entry road to Green Island and the Sagamore Resort.

“It’s a mix of high and low,” says Paty Boccato, speaking for the group. “What we’re saying …

The Chronicle’s Zander Frost writes: Peter Hoffman and his daughter Christiana have purchased the classic brick building at 20 Maple Street across from Crandall Public Library.

It was built circa 1870 as a carriage house for Henry Crandall, who gave Glens Falls both the library and Crandall Park.

“It was a carriage house and we really want to return it to its roots,” Mr. Hoffman told The Chronicle. He and …