By Mark Frost
It no longer operates 24 hours a day, nor is beer served, but in the ways that matter the New Way Lunch hasn’t much changed since Greek immigrant John Floro left his fruit and vegetable business in New York City, searched upstate and found and bought the little restaurant already named New …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
The Adirondack Magic girls’ softball program is growing, adding two and possibly three youth travel teams by the fall.
Jesse Hayes, along with his wife Megan and what he describes as “many dedicated parents,” helped start the Magic’s 8U (8 and under) team last fall because “there was nothing else out there. There were no other 8U travel teams.”
His daughter Haylee is one …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Fishhook waterfleas have infested Lake Champlain and are seen as a threat to Lake George.
“To hear that fishhook waterfleas are abundant in Lake Champlain is a reason to get on high alert,” Roger Smith said in response to a Chronicle query. He oversees the Lake George Park Commission’s mandatory boat inspection program.
The Lake Champlain Basin Program issued an alert late last week …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Glens Falls’s David Britton is the new executive chef at Siro’s Restaurant, a centerpiece of the Saratoga Race Course season.
As reported by Steve Barnes in the Albany Times Union, Siro’s was sold last week to SPS and JLS Family Partnerships, which two years ago purchased Shepard’s Cove Restaurant and turned it into the Lake George Beach Club in Lake George Village.
Mr. Britton …
Read More »By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
My journalist friend Bob Conner has written his first novel, The Last Circle of Ulysses Grant, about the life and last days of Ulysses S. Grant. I bought it last fall at our Chronicle Book Fair, and I’m writing now at long last to tell you it’s a really good, really informative read.
It’s also what propelled me to Mount McGregor last Sunday (see page …
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