Tag Archives: Glens Falls

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday night approved five variances that will allow developer Chris Patten to build two apartment buildngs on adjacent properties at 3 and 5 West Washington Street, downtown.

The motion passed despite objections from Mark Hoffman, president of Congregation Shaaray Tefila, that one of the proposed buildings, on what are now two paved parking lots, will pose …

By Cathy DeDe & Hannah Hughes, Managing Editor & Summer Staff

Glens Falls has enough lifeguards, and its Haviland’s Cove beach on the Hudson River is open full-time — 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, interim Recreation Director Amy Collins told The Chronicle. “Our new aquatics director Mia Cote is a Glens Falls graduate and was a swimmer at St. Bonaventure. She’s done a wonderful job of recruiting and …

Chronicle reporter Zander Frost writes: A night that started with a testy Glens Falls Common Council Workshop Tuesday ended with the Council and mayor coming to a revived former agreement.

On June 13, the Council unanimously approved a resolution brought by Ward 3 Councilwoman Diana Palmer to pursue a grant to pay up to 90% of the cost of creating a new city comprehensive plan.

The city’s current comprehensive plan …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

“Catastrophic” was just one of the strong words Ward 2 Councilman Robert “Bob” Landry used at last Tuesday’s Common Council meeting to describe the impact on City residents of the F.W. Webb distribution center and retail store proposed on Quaker Road across from Garvey Volkswagen.

The project site is in Queensbury, but sits adjacent to the Windy Hill and Windy Ridge neighborhoods in Glens …

By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff

Weather Routing, Inc. in Glens Falls employs 55 meteorologists who guide freighters, cruiseships, yachts, fishing vessels and even ocean kayakers and swimmers worldwide.

“We provide weather information for…individual vessels and get them from point A to point B, with weather and safety, and in the last decade, also making sure that they’re minimizing fuel when they come across the ocean to lessen the emission …