By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
By day a school music teacher, by night a country-rock star: That’s Kathryn ‘Katy’ Cole, the Johnsburg Central School teacher who was selected by the senior class to give the commencement address on Saturday, June 25.
“I only just started teaching there in mid-February,” Ms. Cole said. “So, I was totally honored. I was really …
Read More »By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer
Every summer the Hadley Mountain Fire Tower Committee hires a Summit Steward to assist and educate hikers on Hadley Mountain in Saratoga County, but vandalism this spring at the observer’s cabin near the summit has interrupted the program this year, committee chair Linda Ranado tells The Chronicle.
She said that as many as 20,000 hikers per year make the 1.8-mile trek to the fire …
Read More »By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer
David Dammerman swam the 32-mile length of Lake George, north to south, in what is thought to be record time this past weekend as a lead-up to the Lake George Marathon Swim planned for Sept. 17-18.
“It was certainly by far the hardest swim I’ve ever undertaken,” the 47-year-old from Saratoga told The Chronicle. He’s an experienced distance swimmer, including having swum the Engish …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Let’s Be Leonard, the Glens Falls-bred progressive jam-rock-jazz band, is doing its first-ever tour in style — in a salmon pink-and aqua-blue tour bus. The eye-catching vehicle is a converted school bus the five guys in the band renovated themselves, with a little help from family and friends, says drummer Paul Guay.…
Read More »By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
The Glens Falls Foundation has committed $180,000 — $60,000 each to Crandall Public Library, the Family Service Association of Glens Falls and the Open Door Mission — in a broad-based initiative that aims to achieve breakthrough progress overcoming multi-generational poverty that is widespread in its Warren, Washington and northern Saratoga County service area.
“Nearly one in five children in Warren and Washington Counties lives in …
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