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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The CEO of Ascend Mental Wellness — formerly Warren-Washington Association for Mental Health — plans to meet on Friday, Nov. 21, with neighbors of its Genesis House residence on Chester Street in response to their complaints.

The facility with space for 13 residents working through psychiatric disabilities has been on Chester Street since the 1980s, but neighbors say disturbing problems have arisen in recent …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Kara Magoolaghan and her husband Matt Rafferty plan to open a home decor store called Hometown Shop in one of the five commercial spaces in Chris Patten’s current redevelopment of 46-56 South Street, the building now painted blue across from “The Ed,” the new farmer’s market building.

The couple said they moved to Glens Falls from Pittsburgh in 2023, where they flipped two houses …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: All 110 parking spaces for Bonacio Development’s Phase 1 and Phase 2 projects on South and Elm Streets will be located in the garage at 333 Glen Street, the former “Travelers Building,” City Communications Director Paul Ghenoiu tells The Chronicle.

Glens Falls agreed in its contract with Bonacio to provide the spaces at no charge to the developer.

The cost to Glens Falls in …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: More than a dozen neighbors spoke for an hour at the Wednesday, Nov. 5, Glens Falls Planning Board meeting urging the board not to accept plans for the 196 Ridge Street development planned by the Snyder family.

The board decided to table the project.

Planning board member Christopher Reed Jr. said, although the project as designed “checks all the boxes,” it doesn’t pass the …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The public was invited to weigh in at the Oct. 24 meeting of the Day User Task Force Committee.

Drew Gerster said he moved to Glens Falls from Buffalo two years ago and that he had been “a homeless drug addict for 10 years” throughout New York before he “got out of it himself.”

He said, “Nothing’s being done” to fix the situation at …