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Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Democrat Jean Anderson Lapper declared her candidacy for Queensbury Town Supervisor. She is currently the town Deputy Supervisor, appointed by Supervisor John Strough, who is not seeking re-election.

She’s run twice before for office, unsuccessfully — in 2019 for a Queensbury At-Large seat on the Warren County Board of Supervisoirs and in 2022 against State Senator Dan Stec.

Those positions are “largely legislative,” Ms. …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The “force main” pipe delivering sewage from South Glens Falls to the Glens Falls wastewater treatment system broke on Thursday, March 5, underneath the Glens Falls-South Glens Falls bridge on Route 9, “discharging an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 gallons of untreated sewage into the Feeder Canal.”

The break occurred on the Glens Falls side of the bridge at Oakland Avenue.

South Glens Falls Village …

The “force main” sewage pipe from South Glens Falls to the Glens Falls collection system has broken underneath the Route 9 Feeder Canal Bridge, discharging an estimated 180 gallons per minute of untreated sewage into the Feeder Canal, a Glens Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant notification said.

A post from the Village of South Glens Falls said the break occurred at “Oakland Avenue in the City of Glens Falls into the …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Maple syrup making is getting a late start this winter.

“Last year we started producing Feb. 8,” Randy Galusha, owner of Toad Hill Maple Farm in Athol, told The Chronicle.

This year is “more like an old-fashioned sugar season we used to have when I was younger,” he said.

“It’s been a very cold winter and things haven’t really broken free to start production …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The vacant clubhouse of the former Glens Falls Tennis and Swim Club on East Sanford Street burned to the ground early Saturday morning.

The start-up not-for-profit Crockwell Preserve aimed to re-use the building in its environmental park plan. The 922 square foot building dated from 1975, said the City of Glens Falls.

What happens now?

“This was definitely not on the Bingo card,” says …