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Chronicle News Editor Zander Frost writes: Dottie Bartell and John Fickel open their Stony Creek Inn for the return of Dot and Johnstock, Saturday, Sept. 20, from 1 to 5 p.m. Yes, in Stony Creek.

The spirited event began in about 2008, Dot recalls. John was just recovering from cancer treatments when Dot was also diagnosed. With both hard-pressed to run the beloved Inn, their only means of support, friends …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

I highly recommend ‘Welcome to Lake George: Vacation Paradise of the 50s & 60s,’ the summer show at the Bolton Historical Museum. We finally saw it last week. It goes through Oct. 13, open daily 10 to 4.

First of all, it’s fun, especially for someone who grew up in the 1950s and 60s. So many pleasant memories triggered by the brochures, relics, advertisements, clippings, …

Washington County’s Town of Hebron is getting a new Verizon cell tower. It’s being installed on Birch Hill Road, on county-owned property that already has a radio communications tower that serves EMS and other emergency providers, Washington County Public Safety Director Tim Hardy tells The Chronicle.

He said Verizon is building the tower; the County is providing the land.

The cell tower is not directly tied to the shooting death …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Hebron Town Supervisor Brian Campbell reached out to The Chronicle to sound an alarm on the eve of Washington County budget talks.

Mr. Campbell, who is the Board of Supervisors’ Finance Chair, warns, “If we do nothing,” residents face a property tax increase of at least 10 percent or even 11 percent in 2026.

He says the primary driver is 2024 Department of Social …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

P.J. Ferguson played the concert of the century Friday night, Sept. 5. at the Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls.

Strand founder and genius Jonathan Newell can throw in the towel now.

It won’t get better than what we experienced when Whitehall native turned Nashville frontman P.J. Ferguson brought his Tennessee Strange Band for a Washington County-stretching homecoming everyone will remember.

P.J. had the crowd …