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By Ben Westcott & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor

Developer Chris Patten went before the City of Glens Falls Planning Board Tuesday for sketch plan review of the 60-unit “Washington Square” apartment project he is proposing at the Glen-Washington-Harlem Street block across Washington from the former Travelers Building.

“It’s going to be nice,” he told the Planning Board. “It’s going to look great across from the new Stewart’s.”…

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Alex Lombard, founding director of the Lake George Music Festival, recalls an early interview with The Chronicle, alongside founding artistic director Barbora Kolarova.

“You called us ‘The New — Classical — Kids on the Block.’ Like, what is this crazy thing you’re trying?”

At 30 years old, they and music director Roger Kalia were aiming for the seemingly unthinkable, to bring classical music to …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: So what if the Lake George Dinner Theatre bombards its audience with every relationship cliché imaginable in its current musical revue I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, on stage at the Holiday Inn Resort in Lake George.

Every smitch of this production is, to use their word, Perfect. Not a cue, eyeball roll, sigh or sneeze out of place.

It’s not rocket science, …

Harrison Freer passed away while bicycling in Bolton on Wednesday, July 31. It has caused an outpouring of grief, respect and remembrance.

The Queensbury Town Board observed a moment of silence Monday in memory of the Ward 2 Councilman, who was first elected in 2019.

Town Supervisor John Strough opened the meeting with a statement, but, overcome by emotion, asked Town Attorney Mark Schachner to read it.

Town Board members …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Hundreds of people showed up at the Fort Ann Super Stop on Sunday to protest the state’s decision to close Great Meadow Correctional Facility on Nov. 6.

The maximum security prison in the hamlet of Comstock in Washington County was on the chopping block after this year’s state budget authorized the closure of up to five state correctional facilities “as determined to be necessary …