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What are you up to this weekend??
07/31/2025

What are you up to this weekend??

Chronicle Thursday! Get this edition digitally FREE: https://mailchi.mp/loneoak/chronicledigitalfreeIt's been a "Hot" we...
07/31/2025

Chronicle Thursday! Get this edition digitally FREE: https://mailchi.mp/loneoak/chronicledigitalfree

It's been a "Hot" week for weather — and news, Mark Frost says.

First, out and about, our Cathy rides (and pedals) the Revolution Rails.

Two locals — Ben Alden and Brian McKenzie — bought Autoworld in Moreau for $1-million. Their plan: Moreau Commons, multi-shop center with lead tenants Stinky's Coffee and Upstate Barber Co.

Chris Patten buys the Bartlett Pontiff properties in downtown GF for $3.175-million, making way for his $6 million, 60-unit Washington Square project.

Letters: ‘The Ed’ is good to go for winter, Sears mail order houses, a thank you to the Hudson Falls American Legion for bringing the Vietnam Wall here.

Inside: Two youths shot on Walnut Street, at a troubled location.
Not so Cool: It's the Harding Mazzotti Arena now.
Rich Schermerhorn charged.
The Outsiders at Glen Twin Drive-in.
Shake Rattle Roll has opened.
A 105-year-old gets her South High diploma.
Tom Hoy’s cherry-red 1954 MG up for auction to benefit Glens Falls Hospital.
Murphys to receive Crandall Award.

Plus! More news, happenings and all the Chronicle features: The Scoop. School Views. Obituaries. Valedictorian profiles. Real Estate and Classifieds. The Crossword and Hocus Focus. The World's Greatest Advertisers! and as always, The Chronicle's Famous Events Calendar.

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Bass Pro Shops set Wednesday, July 30, as opening day of its 70,000-square foot store in Clifton Park next to the Northw...
07/29/2025

Bass Pro Shops set Wednesday, July 30, as opening day of its 70,000-square foot store in Clifton Park next to the Northway just south of Exit 9.

READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/bass-pro-shops-opening-in-clifton-park/

“This is something that the community’s been waiting for forever,” said General Manager Bryan Lalone, a Stony Creek native and Warrensburg High School graduate whose decades of experience in retail includes opening the Price Chopper in Warrensburg.

The new building will sell merchandise for fishing, hunting, camping, hiking, and boating. The property will also display 103 boats and offer boat service.

There are local touches like a huge hand-painted mural of Huddle Bay on Lake George that spans multiple walls, and a water feature replica of Split Rock Falls on the Bouquet River in Elizabethtown.

The store is accessorized with several more outdoorsy hand-painted murals, as well as legions of taxidermied animals, many donated by a local man who harvested them with a bow and arrow and prefers to remain anonymous, Mr. Lalone said.

The store joins more than 170 Bass Pro Shops across the country. It’s the fourth in New York State, the other three are in Auburn, Cheektowaga and Utica.

Mr. Lalone said of the location, “It’s in the gateway to the Adirondacks — 6 million acres of property that is the outdoor wilderness. So what better place to put it? It’s located on I-87, so it will be a close transition for anybody who’s trying to get here, whether they’re coming down I-90 or they’re coming from the east, or they’re coming from the south or the north.”

A lover of the outdoors himself, Mr. Lalone lives in Stillwater now.

READ THE REST: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/bass-pro-shops-opening-in-clifton-park/

The Adirondack Thunder will no longer be the only Heavy Hitters in Glens Falls’ local arena.READ: https://www.glensfalls...
07/28/2025

The Adirondack Thunder will no longer be the only Heavy Hitters in Glens Falls’ local arena.

READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/cool-arena-renamed-harding-mazzotti-arena/

The Adirondack Civic Center Coalition today announced that “Harding Mazzotti LLP have secured the naming rights to the former Cool Insuring Arena, now Harding Mazzotti Arena, through 2030.”

“Harding Mazzotti’s partnership with the Adirondack Civic Center Coalition to sponsor Harding Mazzotti Arena underscores our commitment to improving the communities we serve and call home,” Harding Mazzotti LLP managing partner, Paul Harding was quoted in a press release.

“Adirondack Thunder Hockey, and the other events hosted at Harding Mazzotti Arena, will provide unparalleled family activities for both residents and visitors alike, and stimulate economic activity and investment in our communities. We look forward to a successful partnership for many years to come.”

READ THE REST: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/cool-arena-renamed-harding-mazzotti-arena/

Big weekend ahead! What are your plans?
07/25/2025

Big weekend ahead! What are your plans?

Smitty’s Pizza in Hudson Falls closed in 1997, but now, 27 years later, original founder John Smith, his wife Diane Smit...
07/24/2025

Smitty’s Pizza in Hudson Falls closed in 1997, but now, 27 years later, original founder John Smith, his wife Diane Smith, and Mr. Smith’s son Connor, 21, and Diane’s son Henri, 17, have resurrected the eatery on the very same street with the new name Smitty’s Firehouse Pizza.

READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/the-return-of-smittys-hudson-falls/

The restaurant was originally at 287 Main Street. Now it’s at 67 Main, in a lately vacant property that previously housed a fish fry and other restaurants.

The new Smitty’s Firehouse Pizza opened July 3 selling pizza with the same recipe used in the 80s and 90s. Chicken wings and subs are also on the menu.
“The first two days we were open we sold out of everything we had,” Connor said. “Last week we were able to prepare a little bit more, so we’ve been working into it. Business has been good.”

“It’s been busier than I thought,” the elder Mr. Smith said. “I tried to do a soft opening, and I got laughed at by a bunch of my family and friends, who said ‘Soft opening!? It’s not gonna work, bud!’”

“The day we opened, we had five people waiting at the door at 11 o’clock in the morning,” he recalled. “They said ‘we want to be the first one.’

READ THE REST: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/the-return-of-smittys-hudson-falls/

Chronicle Thursday! Get this edition digitally FREE: https://mailchi.mp/loneoak/chronicledigitalfree"Wowzer!" Mark Frost...
07/24/2025

Chronicle Thursday! Get this edition digitally FREE: https://mailchi.mp/loneoak/chronicledigitalfree

"Wowzer!" Mark Frost says. "Your hot, free weekly is teeming with late July news."

First, tragedy in our region — The developing story of a 9-year-old Montreal girl allegedly killed in Ticonderoga by her father.

On the upbeat: Three front-page stories by Ben Westcott:
Bass Pro Shops to open in Clifton Park, managed by a Warrensburg grad.
How Hayden does it — in-depth interview with the 15-year-old NYS Women’s Golf champ.
The return of Smitty’s Pizza in Hudson Falls, after 28 years.

Letter writer says, "I’m disgusted with Haviland’s Cove."

Inside: Glens Falls arena isn’t ’Cool’ anymore.
JG3 will play in Slovenia.
Stefanik & Hochul spar over Medicaid.
Touring Vietnam War Wall replica in Hudson Falls.
Rapper ‘Ice Spice’ spotted with NY Jets star Sauce Gardner in Lake George.

Also: Greenjackets football team outsted from Glens Falls school field will play their home games at Lansingburgh in Troy.
First Presbyterian is ‘lit.’
Pioneer Abraham Wing’s link to Old Fort House auction.
NYS Record Brook Trout

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Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The Cool sign has been removed at the Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls.RE...
07/22/2025

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The Cool sign has been removed at the Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls.

READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/gf-arena-is-not-cool-anymore/

The former Glens Falls Civic Center is currently a nameless entity.

“Cool Insuring Agency was purchased by Gallagher Insurance a few years ago, so they formally no longer exist as an entity,” Arena director Jeff Mead said in response to a Chronicle inquiry.

Gallagher had agreed when it purchased Cool Insuring in 2020 to continue the naming rights contract — and in 2021, they announced they had extended that contract until 2025.

That’s now set to expire, “so the sign was taken down,” on Tuesday, Mr. Mead said.

“We have been in discussions for a while,” Mr. Mead said, regarding a new naming partner. “We will have an announcement in the near future.”

He said he could not discuss the terms of the contracts with Cool Insuring/Gallagher. The original naming deal with Cool was announced in July 2017.

READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/gf-arena-is-not-cool-anymore/

Chronicle Staff writer Ben Westcott writes: While the Adirondacks High Peaks to the north understandably draw hiking ent...
07/22/2025

Chronicle Staff writer Ben Westcott writes: While the Adirondacks High Peaks to the north understandably draw hiking enthusiasts from around the world, as an avid hiker myself it’s amazing to me how many serious climbs are just within an hour’s drive of Glens Falls, where I live.

READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/our-man-ben-is-climbing-a-mountain-a-day/

These mountains can be summited on weekdays even when short on time, and still provide great workouts and even better views.

Since early June I’ve been trying to hike a mountain a day to explore the area’s vast offerings. You can follow my page for pictures of all of them.

A list of the great mountains I’ve climbed within an hour’s drive of Glens Falls includes Moxham, Crane, Buck, Hadley, Black, Panther, Bartonville, Kipp, Swede, Stewart, Hackensack, Potash and Shelving Rock Mountains as well as Fox Hill, Pilot K**b and Pinnacle.

Buck, Black and Pinnacle with their views of Lake George seem to be pretty well known and much talked about in hiking circles, so I’ll talk about three generally less-discussed favorites from my list that are definitely worth a look.

Crane Mountain in Johnsburg is a very cool hike with stunning views, and despite its proximity to our area you really feel like you’re out there in the wilderness. My hiking partner — who won Adirondack Photo of the Week for a snapshot he got on this hike — remarked multiple times how quiet it was. There truly is no road noise or human activities to be heard.

There are two ladders that must be climbed, and one of them is very lengthy, which was cool. We looped the hike on the descent, where the trail follows along the shoreline of a beautiful lake.

READ THE REST: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/our-man-ben-is-climbing-a-mountain-a-day/

9-year-old Melina Frattolin has been found dead according to police sources, NewsChannel 13’s Mark Mulholland reported t...
07/20/2025

9-year-old Melina Frattolin has been found dead according to police sources, NewsChannel 13’s Mark Mulholland reported this afternoon.

An Amber alert was issued early Sunday morning, Sunday, July 20. Police said she was “Last seen southbound in a white van on I-87 near exit 22, Lake George at 9:40pm” on Saturday, July 19.

Police have not yet issued a statement on the status of the case. They had previous said that “The child was taken under circumstances that lead police to believe that they are In imminent danger of serious bodily hard and/or death.”

***AMBER ALERT*** SHARED BY NEW YORK STATE POLICE:The New York State Police Investigative Support Unit is activating an ...
07/20/2025

***AMBER ALERT*** SHARED BY NEW YORK STATE POLICE:

The New York State Police Investigative Support Unit is activating an AMBER Alert on behalf of the Warren County Sheriffs Office and is investigating a child abduction that occurred in LAKE GEORGE NY at approximately 09:40 PM on July 19, 2025 (TIME HAS BEEN CORRECTED to 9:40 PM).

The CHILD, MELINA FRATTOLIN is a Indian Female, approximately 9 Years Old with Brown Hair and Brown Eyes. She is approximately 5 feet 00 inches and weighs about 100 pounds. MELINA FRATTOLIN was last seen wearing BLUE AND WHITE STRIPED SHIRT SHORTS WHITE ADIDAS SNEAKERS.

The SUSPECT: Unknown

THE CHILD WAS TAKEN UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LEAD THE POLICE TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE IN IMMINENT DANGER OF SERIOUS BODILY HARM AND/OR DEATH.

Anyone with information about this abduction is asked to call Warren County Sheriffs Office at 518-743-2501 or dial 911.

Zander Frost writes: Rap superstar Ice Spice and her boyfriend, New York Jets superstar Sauce Gardner, were spotted this...
07/19/2025

Zander Frost writes: Rap superstar Ice Spice and her boyfriend, New York Jets superstar Sauce Gardner, were spotted this weekend around Lake George.

READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/celeb-couple-ice-spice-sauce-gardner-spotted-in-lake-george/

This week Mr. Gardner, 24, became the NFL’s highest paid cornerback with a 4-year, roughly $120-million extension. He has had a very successful start to his career, despite playing for the New York Jets.

The photo was taken and posted by Amari Prunty with the caption, "Yes I just met ice spice."

Mr. Gardner has posted a number of Lake George photos on Instagram throughout the weekend.

READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/celeb-couple-ice-spice-sauce-gardner-spotted-in-lake-george/

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