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Republican Doug Beaty will not seek reelection after five terms as one of Queensbury’s four At-Large members on the Warren County Board of Supervisors.

Instead, Mr. Beaty tells The Chronicle he will run for the Ward 2 Queensbury Town Board seat held by Democrat Harrison Freer.

David Deeb, who nearly defeated Mr. Freer two years ago, plans to run again.

Other candidates could still run, too.

“The Town forced me,” …

Queensbury Hotel owner Ed Moore has purchased the building at 80 Glen Street for $550,000, he told The Chronicle Tuesday. It’s across from the J.E. Sawyer building that Mr. Moore also owns.

“I don’t really have a plan for it,” he said. “It’s been for sale for a while. For a while, I said to myself, I don’t need this thing” and held off. Eventually, “I just said, maybe I …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Here are thoughts from some of the nine student chairs as they chug toward the 46th annual South High Marathon Dance on March 3-4, shared via email exchanges with The Chronicle.

“This year’s 2023 SHMD is going to be awesome!,” Logan Mahoney said. “The whole SGF community has waited for the dance to return to the school and be able to witness the SHMD …

Editor’s note: Former Chronicle foreign correspondent Max Frost is still doing international journalism, but now it’s for RocaNews, the Internet news organization he founded with two partners in August 2020. In January Max and Roca writer Alex Norris spent 2.5 weeks in Ethiopia. They’re back in the U.S. now, but Max is writing daily reports of the trip in the RocaNews letter. It’s free. Go to rocanews.com to sign up. …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

When Lake George Village voters go to the polls on March 21, they will be electing two new trustees as well as a new mayor.

Current trustee Ray Perry is running for mayor, with Bob Blais stepping down after 52 years. Trustee John Earl is also not seeking re-election.

Declared trustee candidates are Jose Filomeno, Randy Powell and Alyson Miller.

Jose Filomeno, 43, the …