Tag Archives: Glens Falls

Adk United girls hockey will play at Harding Mazzotti, exit GF Rec

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Adirondack United, the highly successful girls hockey team comprised of players from several local high schools, will move from the Glens Falls Recreation Center behind the YMCA to the Harding Mazzotti Arena downtown as it seeks its third straight state championship.

Head Coach Jeff Willis said part of why they moved is that they couldn’t get their own locker room at the Rec Center.…

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Car show weekend

Chronicle Managing Editor

Time to get your “Vroom” on!

The Albany Rods & Kustoms Club’s 35th annual Adirondack Nationals car show returns to Lake George Village this weekend, while the Adirondack Corvette Club’s annual VetteFest is back in downtown Glens Falls.

“One show, 1,500 cars, 236-plus vendors,” is how Adirondack Nationals touts itself. It showcases colorful, souped up, reconditioned hot rods, classic and antique cars from 1979 or earlier, on …

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ICE detains GF resident; rally cry ‘he’s one of us’; Google search yields law run-ins

By Zander Frost, Chonicle Staff Writer

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s seizing people it deems illegal immigrants came to Glens Falls last week as Yuriy Zinovyev was taken into custody by ICE after what his friend described as a routine immigration check-in.

As of Tuesday, an ICE database showed that Yuriy Zinovyev was “in ICE Custody” in Buffalo Federal Detention Facility. It listed Kazakhstan as his country of birth.

The …

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Patten OK’d for $842,060 in tax benefits for South St.

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Industrial Development Agency approved tax credits and a PILOT — Payment in Lieu of Taxes — amounting to an estimated $842,060 for Chris Patten’s 46-56 South Street project.

The PILOT in this case is a “partial real property abatement,” for a term of 10 years, IDA Chair Judy Calogero tells The Chronicle. It includes a 100% exemption of taxes on the …

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New Glens Falls gathering place

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

The City of Glens Falls cut the ribbon Friday and debuted the centerpiece of its South Street redevelopment, the $6-million Market & Events Center.

It will be known as The Ed, for Ed Bartholomew, the late mayor and then Economic Development president who pushed for and won a $10-million New York State Downtown Revitalization grant in 2016, the first round of the Andrew Cuomo initiative.…

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