By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Sixty-four years after it opened in the heart of downtown Glens Falls, Scoville Jewelers is closing.
“Debra [Vales] and I are retiring and the store will be closing the end of December,” Chris Scoville told The Chronicle.
He said they’ll exit on a high note.
“We’ve been blessed, for the last year and a half business has been amazing,” Mr. Scoville said. “We thank …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Peter Shabat’s several properties on South Street in Glens Falls include 46-56 South, seen by some as a potential anchor in the $10-million state-funded revitalization of downtown’s “Street of Dreams.”
The three-story, 25,000-square-foot building on the corner of South and Elm sits largely vacant, except for a couple of taxi cab companies in spartan storefronts.
“It’s listed for $650,000, which is a very fair …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Exchange Street in downtown Glens Falls is on the rise, with an established and growing cluster of locally owned businesses and eclectic entrepreneurs.
Ann Parrish has two new tenants at the pre-Civil War building she owns at 16 Exchange Street and where for 15 years she has successfully operated her Milk & Honey clothing and gift boutique.
She …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Maura Bannon has bought Minky Mink, the specialty women’s clothing store in downtown Glens Falls founded and operated by Shonna McTiernan. The price was not disclosed.
Ms. Bannon, 28, is a 2006 graduate of Lake George High School with experience in retail and a degree from St. Michael’s College in communications and journalism, with a minor in marketing.
“The closing was Friday,” she said. …
Read More »By William Loughrey, Special to The Chronicle
Charles Evans Hughes was born in Glens Falls to a woman of exceptionally strong faith and a father who was an abolitionist preacher, a head of the anti-slavery forces in the upper Hudson River Valley. Throughout his distinguished public career, Hughes was a civil rights stalwart, a role for which he has not been accorded credit.
For a century and a half, America’s …
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