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Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops concert Sunday at Glens Falls High School drew 1,200-plus, the GFSO’s biggest indoor audience of all time, executive director Jennifer Brink announced.

The Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra put on a heck of a wintry show.

Warm appreciation all around for the young Saratoga City Ballet members dancing excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet front-of-stage accompanied live by the …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The Glens Falls Kiwanis Club’s third annual Spirits of the Trees opened with a community celebration Saturday night, Dec. 7.

This year’s display included twice the original 85 trees from Year One. After selling their planned 150 sponsored and decorated trees early, the Kiwanis this year added 20 more — and still had a waiting list, event organizer Patricia Van Buren tells The Chronicle. …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

SUNY Adirondack’s men’s basketball team is in the midst of a program turnaround. The Timberwolves have jumped out to a 7-2 record, including 6-0 at home.

Head Coach Maxx Sweet, who played at Adirondack himself for a year in 2011, says it’s the team’s best start since the early 90s.

Sweet, who is also the school’s assistant athletic director, became Adirondack’s head coach in …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

In September Queensbury couple Ryan and Erin Connor’s EBRM Properties LLC bought the four-story 48,000 square foot Union Square building from long-time owner Tom O’Neill for $1,665,000.

The former shirt factory at 2-15 Broad Street faces Broad, South and Pine Streets. Mr. O’Neill put it on the market last spring for $2.35 million.

The couple are RPI grads. Ryan graduated from South Glens Falls …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Dancing Ewe Farm in Granville aims to launch a wine bar and events space in downtown Saratoga Springs in 2025.

Owner, cheesemaker and sommelier Jody Somers wrote in an e-blast, “After a lot of questions, deliberations, number-crunching, dreaming, sweating, and no small amount of anxiety, I am finally ready to commit to moving the Dancing Ewe cheese and salumi operation to downtown Saratoga.

“Our …