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Trunk or Treat!

What is this “Trunk or Treat?”

Organizes decorate their cars or other fun vehicles for Halloween and invite kids to “Trick or Treat” from the trunks. Locally, Up Yonda Farm in Bolton Landing pioneered it. It took off during the pandemic as a safely socially distanced event sticks — because it’s fun. Below are some such offerings around here.

At Up Yonda, Bolton

Up Yonda Farm in Bolton Landing offers …

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GF Habitat plans 25-unit Qby. condo; thought to be a world first

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

You know how Habitat for Humanity builds houses for families?

Picture the classic scene: A swarm of community volunteers hammers boards, muds sheetrock, raises walls. The beneficiary family puts in “sweat equity” on the way to home ownership. The house is built. A key is handed over, threshold crossed, maybe a whoop of celebration.

Adam Feldman, the executive director of Glens Falls Area Habitat …

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Adirondack Thunder Hockey is back: Forecast: ‘More wins; aggressive’

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Adirondack Thunder training camp opened on Monday, the pre-season home game is this Friday, Oct. 14, and the ECHL hockey team’s season home opener is Saturday, Oct. 29, vs. Worcester. It’s all at the Cool Insuring Arena.

“We are very optimistic for a winning season,” Thunder president Jeff Mead told The Chronicle. “It’s a new era of Thunder hockey, led by head coach Pete …

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Farmacy’s new look

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

[Farmacy] owners Aj and Christina Richards have renovated the restaurant, fulfilling a plan they’ve had since it opened in April 2019.

“We wanted to do some things when we first opened,” Chef Richards said.

“We just had to get the doors open. And then we’re like, alright, this needs to change, this needs to change. And then COVID happens.”

He said guests have described …

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How Glens Falls works

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Friday night at the Queensbury Hotel seemed to me a perfect example of how Glens Falls works.

We were there to attend Crandall Public Library’s “Heart of the Community Dinner,” a benefit honoring Dr. Jim Morrissey, 90, the retired cardiologist who’s been one of Glens Falls’s quiet, impeccable civic leaders most of our lives. No surprise a throng turned out at $99 each, filling the …

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