Tag Archives: Hudson Falls

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Phil and Grace Battiste’s 75th wedding anniversary was Wednesday, June 29. He’s 97 years old. She’s 93. Phil grew up in Hudson Falls, has lived there all his life.

Grace was 18, lived in Brooklyn. She emigrated from Italy at age seven.

Phil was 22. “He just got out of the service,” in the U.S. Army in Italy during World War II, says Grace.

“We …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

There are so many interesting storylines about the exhibit on view now through June 30 at the Folklife Center in the basement of Crandall Public Library.

It’s called “Life Through Bloomer’s Lens: Portraits from the Richard M. Bloomer Glass Plate Negative Collection.”

One storyline is the somewhat miraculous way that Richard M. Bloomer has been rescued from oblivion.

He operated a portrait photo studio on …

The handsomely revived Strand Theatre on Main Street in Hudson Falls is overachieving as usual.

On Tuesday, July 20, they’ll screen the initial episode of Hudson Falls, an aspiring TV series. Strand executive director Jonathan Newell notes that it was titled “Hudson Falls” even before they knew the place actually existed, but the Strand parlayed it into a showing that will bring some cast and crew members to Hudson Falls …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls has been closed since the pandemic struck, but financially it’s holding its own.

“We’ve been so lucky,” its director Jonathan Newell told The Chronicle.

“A couple of reimbursement grants recently got paid out, including one from National Grid. That was one we got four years ago, and they just called and said it’s time to start paying out. …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Lewis Supermarket on Burgoyne Avenue in Hudson Falls is closing.

“I broke the news to our employees this morning,” owner Em Lewis told The Chronicle Tuesday. He operates the store with his wife Debbie. He said Wednesday, Sept. 4, will be the store’s last day.

Mr. Lewis’s late parents Em and Peg started Lewis Super in 1949. It’s one of the region’s last independent …