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By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

2024 was another big digital year for The Chronicle. We reached 16,500 free digital subscribers — up from 5,000 four years ago.

And our posts generated millions of views via Facebook and Instagram. A record number of them reached over 100,000 people each.

As always, we’ve maintained our commitment to organic growth. We’ve never paid to boost a post. The success is all thanks …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Here’s an interesting, high-profile story that will unfold in the month ahead.

Will New York’s U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, vote for President Trump’s nomination of our Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations?

Some Trump nominees have drawn harsh criticism — Robert Kennedy for Health, Pete Hegseth for Defense. Matt Gaetz was quashed right out …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Queensbury Hotel owner Ed Moore has purchased the former TD Bank property next-door for $1.2-million. He told The Chronicle the closing occurred Thursday, Dec. 12.

Mr. Moore said he has no specific plans for the property he said is nearly two acres stretching from Maple Street to Washington Street.

“Someday at some point we’ll probably do something with it — expand, do something.

“The first …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Editor

Grumbellies has found a new home — in downtown Fort Edward in the former Glens Falls National Bank building at 159 Broadway that closed in 2021.

Irma Hamblin told The Chronicle they are purchasing the property for $215,000.

“We signed the paperwork and I gave them the down payment,” she said.

“We haven’t been through our closing yet. That should be coming.” They hope to …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Stephanie Guzik-Lendrum went from lab-coated biophysicist-biochemist to self-described “Christmas elf.”

The 2001 Queensbury grad earned her bachelor’s degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and then her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in cell and development biology.

She came back to work at RPI, but in 2018 she left abruptly, after what she describes as uncomfortable fallout from an equipment failure. It led her …