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

A Queensbury couple with a combined 70 years in the restaurant business has opened DeNatale’s — serving traditional Italian and “Tuscany peasant” style cuisine — in Hudson Falls.

Kevin Golonka and Theresa Harwood-DeNatale transformed an empty room into a showplace in the Masonic building that Hudson Falls attorney Bill Nikas is reviving as the Sandy Hill Arts Center.

It’s …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Two issues at the Lake George School Board meeting in November — its traditional Warrior imagery, and plans to address “DEI,” or Diversity Equity and Inclusion, in the district — brought out heated if politely worded comments from the public. It reached Warren County, too, where two speakers waited through the lengthy November Board of Supervisors meeting in order to alert the Supervisors of …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

“I’m leaning towards opting out only in the sense that I think it gives us more future flexibility,” Kingsbury Town Supervisor Dana Hogan told The Chronicle regarding the state marijuana opt-out deadline coming up on Dec. 31.

“If we don’t opt out by December 31, 2021, we no longer as a community have the option to opt out in the future,” Mr. Hogan said. …

Chronicle staff writer Zander Frost reports: “No decision has been made” on whether to authorize or forbid marijuana dispensaries in Moreau, Town Supervisor Todd Kusnierz told The Chronicle.

He expects it to be discussed at the Town Board meeting, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.

Dec. 31 is the deadline set by New York State to opt out of allowing sales. Otherwise it’s allowed permanently. Towns can opt in later if …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Lake Luzerne Town Supervisor race flipped in favor of incumbent Eugene “Gene” Merlino over Republican Dan Waterhouse when Friday’s recount revealed 14 write-in ballots that had been “misdirected” by the voting machine to the general ballot bin instead of the separate bin for write-in ballots, said Warren County Board of Elections officials.

These ballots lifted Mr. Merlino to an unofficial lead of 459 …