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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Drum Corps International returns for the second straight year to East Field in Glens Falls on Monday, July 22, at 7 p.m.

Having come back in 2018 after a five-year hiatus, the show-stopping drum and bugle corps event is again titled “The Glens Falls Music Academy Showcase.” It’s presented by Music Academy owner Chris Reed, Jr. (himself a percussionist).

“Last year, our the first …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The City of Glens Falls owns Cole’s Woods, but most of the property is in the Town of Queensbury.

So does the City’s dog leash law apply?

No, it doesn’t, wrote Lois and John Karhinen in letters to The Chronicle after our April 4 story on the city’s stepped up effort to require dogs in the park to be leashed.

But yes, it does, …

Chronicle editor Mark Frost writes: Time gets away from me, so I’m grabbing this moment and this available space to call your attention to “A Magical World: The Art of Jacob Houston,” at the Hyde Collection, now through June 23.

Jacob Houston, as we’ve written before, is a young painter in Greenwich, who has made waves here, in New York City and elsewhere, with what the Hyde describes as “his …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Glens Falls native Kate White’s newest murder mystery, Such a Perfect Wife, is set in Lake George and involves people and places from Queensbury to Fort Ann. Kate, of course, is the St. Mary’s grad who went on to become editor of Cosmopolitan.

In this novel (and prior ones), her main character Bailey Weggins is a reporter for a website called Crime Beat. She’s sent …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

East Field is getting new energy-efficient lights and other improvements.

“It’s a good start,” Mayor Dan Hall said. “The lights have been bad for a long time.”

LED lights — 128 of them — are being installed to replace the old halogen lights that it is said took forever to warm up and cost a bundle of money to use.

The City of Glens …