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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Lake George Park Commission is laying the regulatory groundwork for a rolling septic inspection program that would require private systems around the lake to be checked by Park Commission inspectors every five years.

Dave Wick, Executive Director of the LGPC, said 2,700 properties fall inside the proposed boundaries — within 500 feet of the Lake George shoreline or within 100 feet of streams …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Anthony Merrill emailed to say he works at the Fort William Henry. He offered to connect us with Ukranians he worked with there in past summers.

On Monday we spoke via Zoom with Nikita Nakonechny, who said he worked summers for the Fort William Henry in 2014 and 2015.

Mark: How are you?

Nikita: Good as possible for now. You understand, probably.

Mark: How scary …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Real estate investing is “in” for these two local 20-somethings.

Joey Lufkin, Argyle class of 2013, was 23 when he bought his first apartment property in Utica. “When I was a senior in college [at Hartwick] I lived off campus in Oneonta in a guy’s house and there were six of us and we each paid $3,000 a semester. I started adding up the …

By Sandra Hutchinson, Chronicle Assistant Publisher

Nettle Meadow Farm & Artisan Cheese is now making all its cheeses in Lake Luzerne, at the classic log Hitching Post building that it bought in 2020 and spent two years renovating.

Sheila Flanagan and Lorraine Lambiase have operated Nettle Meadow in Thurman in the mountains of northwest Warren County since 2005, when they quit legal careers in California to buy the then 50-acre …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Hartford Supervisor Dana Haff alerted The Chronicle to Barbara Klaiber, his friend and classmate (Hartford Central School Class of 1978) who in 1998 with Jane Hyatt founded and operates an orphanage in Kyiv, Ukraine.

As of Monday, Ms. Klaiber reported that the she was situated in a bomb shelter with the children and staff of the orphanage. Tuesday morning Ms. Klaiber posted on Facebook, …