Thursday, November 13, 2025

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GF Kiwanis lit 170 trees for its ‘Spirits’ event; display to Jan. 2

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The Glens Falls Kiwanis Club’s third annual Spirits of the Trees opened with a community celebration Saturday night, Dec. 7.

This year’s display included twice the original 85 trees from Year One. After selling their planned 150 sponsored and decorated trees early, the Kiwanis this year added 20 more — and still had a waiting list, event organizer Patricia Van Buren tells The Chronicle. …

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SUNY Adirondack men’s basketball off to best start in decades

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

SUNY Adirondack’s men’s basketball team is in the midst of a program turnaround. The Timberwolves have jumped out to a 7-2 record, including 6-0 at home.

Head Coach Maxx Sweet, who played at Adirondack himself for a year in 2011, says it’s the team’s best start since the early 90s.

Sweet, who is also the school’s assistant athletic director, became Adirondack’s head coach in …

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Ryan & Erin Connor’s plans for Union Square

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

In September Queensbury couple Ryan and Erin Connor’s EBRM Properties LLC bought the four-story 48,000 square foot Union Square building from long-time owner Tom O’Neill for $1,665,000.

The former shirt factory at 2-15 Broad Street faces Broad, South and Pine Streets. Mr. O’Neill put it on the market last spring for $2.35 million.

The couple are RPI grads. Ryan graduated from South Glens Falls …

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Granville’s Dancing Ewe eyes Saratoga for a wine bar; seeks backers: ‘I’m with Ewe’

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Dancing Ewe Farm in Granville aims to launch a wine bar and events space in downtown Saratoga Springs in 2025.

Owner, cheesemaker and sommelier Jody Somers wrote in an e-blast, “After a lot of questions, deliberations, number-crunching, dreaming, sweating, and no small amount of anxiety, I am finally ready to commit to moving the Dancing Ewe cheese and salumi operation to downtown Saratoga.

“Our …

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Glens Falls Mayor calls budget for his $100,000 Oc Tax grant ‘a start’; says he ‘made up’ numbers

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The financial spreadsheet that Mayor Bill Collins presented to the Warren County Occupancy Tax Committee in support of his request for a $100,000 grant in 2025 is more of “a working document,” he tells The Chronicle.

The total expenditure is just shy of $226,000 on the document the Mayor headlined “Glens Falls Business Improvement District Event Growth Budget.”

The Oc Tax committee approved it …

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