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GEM Festival, music & art in Glens Falls, goes big!

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Entertainment and Music Festival — called GEM Fest — doubles in size in this, its eighth year (seventh year, if we ditch the Covid-cancelled festival of 2020).

This year, organizer Brian Michael of Heady Productions in Glens Falls tells The Chronicle, they’ll have 40 regional bands and musicians, versus 20 acts last year, performing over two days, versus last year’s one-day …

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Eric Unkauf’s Shirt Factory ‘Muralgarten’ sets 3-week ‘Mural-thon

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Eric Unkauf is preparing for the next stage of the Muralgarten attraction at his Shirt Factory Complex in Glens Falls.

Plans are underway now, pending Glens Falls Planning Board Approval, for a “Mural-thon,” from July 20 to August 10, with six artists painting murals on the sides of converted shipping containers placed around the Shirt Factory campus over the three-week period.

The artists are …

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Our June 29 front page

Happy Independence Day! Fireworks galore. Weather Routing: GF juggernaut. Biochar wins in court. Hyde’s David Smith. Chester returns to pre-Bicentennial flagless logo; some unhappy. Moreau sells land to Twin Bridges; Casella buys Twin Bridges; Biochar link? Claim, denial. Eric Unkauf’s Shirt Factory ‘Muralgarten’ sets 3-weekn ‘Mural-thon. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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Our June 8 front page

Our 2000th Issue! Northway racers cause injury. Jimmer goes silver. County: Prepping for asylum
seekers, not rejecting them. 2 motorcyclists die in Wash. Co. crashes; 1 collided with a deer. Travelers will exit downtown for Queensbury. Diana Palmer: Habitat-WAIT House apartments don’t meet terms of ARPA funding. Immunotek Plasma Donation Center open soon at former Aldi. Warren County rejects SPCA’s $180,000 plan. Shirt Factory: New Flea Market, and Corrals. Peter …

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Shirt Factory owner plans ‘world-class’ mural garden

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Eric Unkauf, owner-redeveloper of the Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, has an ambitious plan to turn the surrounding 5-acre campus he has assembled into a mural garden — officially “Muralgarten.”

“It’ll be a world-class tourist attraction,” Mr. Unkauf tells The Chronicle.

He sees it as a year-round draw that will be a “transformational catalyst” for the east side of Glens Falls, the city, Warren …

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