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Parents of Qby. girl, 11, call it ‘a miracle’ but struggled to find doctor to prescribe.

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Eleven-year-old Allison Hoffer of Queensbury suffers from Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), a type of epilepsy that causes hard-to-treat seizures and often impairs development.

Her mother Ellen says that up until a few weeks ago, Allison was non-verbal, had up to 180 seizures a day and had a three-year-old’s level …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

“All is good and I feel great,” Otto Miller said from a transitional house next to the Shepherd Center spinal cord rehabilitation center in Atlanta as he prepares to return on Friday, April 8, to his family’s Queensbury home newly retrofitted by a group of volunteers to accommodate him.

The 18-year-old severed his spinal cord in a Jan. 26 fall from a roof while …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Rich Morin, who owns Rich Morin’s Professional Scuba Centers in Glens Falls, will teach underwater Crime Scene Investigation in a pioneering 10-week course this summer at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury.

The course, not yet for credit, is geared to any student in the 64-school SUNY system and to criminal justice majors at other colleges and universities. It will run five days a week from …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Ed Moore’s purchase of the Queensbury Hotel — finalized Monday, for an undisclosed price — is a colossal step forward for the progress of downtown Glens Falls.

Mr. Moore is a serious player. He created the French Mountain Commons outlet stores at Northway Exit 20 in Queensbury and now also owns the Log Jam Outlet Center across the road.

The Staten Island native was also …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

“As of now, my intentions are to run for supervisor,” Republican Rachel Seeber, 40, told The Chronicle Tuesday, setting up a possible race in 2017 against two-term incumbent Democrat John Strough, 65.

We contacted Ms. Seeber after hearing from several sources that she was mulling a run. Last November she won her second two-year term as a Queensbury at-large county supervisor.

Mr. Strough, who …