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By Bob Weinman, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: In 2021, Bob Weinman of Queensbury set out to kayak the length of Lake George in every month of the year. This is the third dispatch in a monthly 12-part series.

Paddled it. Skied it. Today — in March 2021 — I was going to bike the length of Lake George.

Inspired by photos of folks fat-biking frozen lakes in …

By Zander Frost & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor

Katie Haviland, 46, Glens Falls High School class of 1994, is about to head a publicly traded biotech company, Blueprint Medicine Corporation.

On April 4, the Wesleyan University and Harvard Business School graduate will take over as CEO and President of a Boston/Cambridge firm that has 500 employees and a stock market valuation of approximately $4-billion.

She’ll also join …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Benita Anderson, owner of Bella Lyn’s Bakery on South Street in Glens Falls, told The Chronicle that delivery apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, account for “probably like 75%” of her business, but they also take their share of the money — 25% of all orders.

“I have mixed emotions about it,” Mrs. Anderson said. “I don’t necessarily like it, but I look …

By Max Frost, Rocanews.com, Chronicle Foreign Correspondent

Last July, my last stop in eastern Ukraine was Mariupol, a city on the Azov Sea that had been occupied by the separatists for 2 months in 2014.

Getting there took a 7-hour bus ride, parts of which were within 9 miles (15 km) of the ceasefire line. Some of the towns we passed through are at constant risk of being caught in …

Chronicle editor Mark Frost writes: Our son Max — reporting for RocaNews.com, the digital news company he founded with two friends in 2020 — crossed the border from Poland into Ukraine on March 4, hitchhiking with a driver transporting relief supplies. The man invited Max to stay in his three-generation household as long as Max wanted. Max stayed three nights, four days.

After the third day, Max Facetimed with us. …