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New this year, the South High Marathon Dance adds a “SHMD Auction Preview Party” open to the public Saturday, May 7, 1-5 p.m. in the school cafeteria and parking lot.

Marathon itself is Friday, May 13, at The Great Escape. It’s closed to the public as a Covid precaution.

On tap this Saturday: View silent auction items, learn how to use the Bidding Owl system, and place bids! Bidding continues …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The City of Glens Falls wants to build a multi-purpose parking garage-“transportation hub” in the current Elm Street parking lot. It would use $2.5-million from its $10-million state Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant and a $12.8 million grant it has applied for from the Biden Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal.

Mayor Bill Collins tentatively plans to unveil the full project next month, target date May 21.…

Warren County Health Services is encouraging residents take precautions to avoid tick bites after already receiving reports of dozens of tick-borne disease cases this spring.

Tick activity picks up annually in the warmer months, as they look for human, canine and other hosts to latch onto.

The County said 2021 saw a nearly four-fold increase in cases of the serious bacterial disease anaplasmosis, which is transmitted in tick bites. The …

The Lake George Association came out fighting after the Lake George Park Commission approved on Tuesday use of an herbicide against invasive milfoil.

“This is a sad day for Lake George,” began the LGA press release.

“The Lake George Park Commission has abdicated its responsibility to protect the Queen of American Lakes by voting, by a margin of 6-2, to use a chemical herbicide, ProcellaCOR, in the Lake this spring …

Birder Thomas Ranney e-mailed The Chronicle to let us know that “this morning (Friday, April 22nd) four sandhill cranes flew low over my property in Hartford.”

Mr. Ranney said he heard the birds before he saw them.

“I was not sure what those nighttime sounds were because I did not believe that sandhill cranes could be here.”

He included an iPhone video clip. The sound is distinct and memorable.

“These …