By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer
Cognitive decline and its toll on quality of life are unfortunate realities for many people as they age.
Reportedly more than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s and that the lifetime risk at age 45 of getting the disease at some point are 1 in 5 for women and 1 in 10 for men.
Glens Falls Hospital neurologist Dr. Max Rudansky has some …
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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer
Paul Crandell, a State Trooper who founded the Greater Glens Falls Flyers Swim Club in 1991, will retire from swim coaching when this season ends.
“It’s been 44 years,” Mr. Crandell told The Chronicle. “I look back and I say I don’t know how I did it with a full-time job [as a trooper for 20 years, retiring in 1998]. My wife and I …
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By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer
“The Burger Den was our Peppermill.”
That’s what a Salem native told me about the Burger Den on Route 22 in Cambridge that closed after 48 years.
Greg Baratto opened the Burger Den in 1975 and ran it with his wife Lisa for 35 years, until 2019, when their son Marco bought it to operate with his wife Meghan.
The Burger Den’s big menu …
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By Maury Thompson, Special to The Chronicle
The Saratoga County towns of Moreau, Hadley, Day and Edinburg, now represented by U.S. Rep Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, would be moved into the 21st Congressional District, represented by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, under a new proposed congressional redistricting plan.
The “compromise” plan, which the state Independent Redistricting Commission approved by a 9-1 vote on Feb. 15, retains all of Warren and Washington counties …
By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Two major new Lake George winter initiatives will both close early.
Winter Realms at Festival Commons posted on Facebook that its final day will be Sunday, Feb. 25. The attraction — successor to Ice Castles — was planned to continue into early March.
Winter Realms received a $150,000 grant from Warren County Occupancy Tax funds this year.
Ice Castles/Winter Realms officials did not respond …
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