By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Reporter At Tuesday night’s Glens Falls Common Council meeting, 3rd Ward Councilwoman Diana Palmer presented a draft flag policy for the city. Members of the public spoke at the meeting on various sides of the issue. No vote was taken. The draft policy would allow, in addition to the U.S., state, and city flags, at the direction of the mayor or Common Council, the following flags to be displayed by the city: Flags of governments recognized by the United States Flags of sister cities/li> Flags honoring POW-MIA and current or past military members/li> Flags of s ..read more

Lawn & Garden Issue! Washington County Sheriff’s new simulator lets officers practice realistic gun situations. Pride flag divide. Chestnut push. Sagamore’s plans. Mayor & chief: On youth bike incidents. Kidnapper: 47 years. No leads yet on fatal hit & run, Big Boom Rd. GF, SGF, Qby. school musicals all nominated for Proctors awards show. County tables Joseph Warren museum, to consider newly sent biz plan. Boralex seeks 750-acre solar energy facility in Fort Edward. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section! Click to downlo ..read more

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Glens Falls The Sagamore Resort plans three new projects in Bolton Landing on property already owned by the Sagamore. • On-site seasonal employee housing, 53 units with two beds each in a three-story dormitory-style building at the center of the main Sagamore’s Green Island property. Kitchens and lounges on each floor. On-site employee housing — Three-story dormitory building with 53 units with two beds each, at the center of the Sagamore Green Island property. Kitchens and lounges on each floor. • A two-story mixed use building on Lake Shore Drive, in downtown Bolton ..read more

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer The Washington County Sheriff’s Office has a new piece of technology that helps its officers train like never before. The Multiple Interactive Learning Objectives Range Pro Interactive Force Simulator, acquired in February, can virtually put officers in thousands of scenarios they might encounter in their job, so they can practice reacting to situations. Our reporter tried it out… The Chronicle’s Ben Westcott shoots a man who pulled a gun on him during a simulated domestic violence call. Photo/Captain Anthony LeClaire, Washington County Sheriff’s Office ..read more

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor Russell Wallack has a mission — “to build the organic chestnut industry to a watershed scale in the Northeast.” More than 60 people turned out to hear Breadtree Farms founder Russell Wallack in Hebron last week. Chronicle photo/Cathy DeDe Breadtree Farms LLC, created by Mr. Wallack in 2019 in Greenwich, just received a $1,957,328 USDA Organic Market Development grant toward establishing a $2,777,000 chestnut facility at the former Atwater Farm in Salem. The chestnut trees are already being grown in Greenwich and Granville. Breadtree said it must provide ..read more

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer Quebec-based Boralex, whose U.S. headquarters are in South Glens Falls, held an open house Thursday, April 18, at the Durkeetown Church in Fort Edward to allow the public to gather information about its proposed 100 MW photovoltaic solar energy generation facility. The open house was well attended, The solar project would be built on 750 acres in rural Fort Edward bounded on the north by Durkeetown Road and on the south by Cary Road. Members of the public speak with Boralex representatives at an informational open house at the Durkeetown Church in Fort E ..read more

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor One of our biggest responses ever to the question we posed on April 18 to Chronicle digital subscribers: Do you support or oppose flying a Pride flag on Glens Falls’s City Hall flagpole? Why? • I fully support a pride flag because LGBTQ youth are seriously at risk in this community due to widespread intolerance & homophobic misinformation. It’s important that queer kids growing up in these conditions know that City Hall has their back when it comes to protecting them from bias and hate crimes. — Dan Cameron, Glens Falls • The AMERICAN flag is the only one th ..read more

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor We’re hearing again about aggressive groups of youths on bicycles disrupting traffic and assailing drivers, among other acts, similar to last summer — the uptick perhaps driven by the return of warm weather. The alleged incidents occurred in Glens Falls and Queensbury. • A man who identified himself but asked that his name not be published contacted The Chronicle on Tuesday, April 9. He said he was headed from South Glens Falls north to the Glens Falls Roundabout when “I saw just a flock of them…it’s hard to count but it was well over a dozen, like up t ..read more

Chronicle reporter Ben Westcott writes: The Glens Falls Planning Board voted 5-1 Tuesday to grant final site plan approval for a Hoffman Car Wash at 194 Broad Street, formerly Steve’s Place. The Planning Board previously okayed the plan, but was asked to review it again after the Glens Falls Board of Public Safety voted unanimously to urge rejection, citing “a belief that this will unfavorably impact ambulance access to the hospital and also unfavorably impact the traffic into the City of Glens Falls.” The Board of Public Safety had dismissed the traffic study submitted with the application, s ..read more

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor After two years of repairs and renovation, Mario DiSiena says, “We’re ready to go” with his restaurant on Route 9 where most recently Farmstead Flatbread operated at the former Sutton’s Market Place. Mario DiSiena sets ‘Uncle Mario’s Garage,’ restaurant next door to his ‘Furniture House’ store The 174-seat “Uncle Mario’s Garage” is on the agendas next week of the Queensbury Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals. Mr. DiSiena said he grew up next to his family’s now-defunct DiSiena Furniture in Mechanicville. He owns The Furniture House, which he ope ..read more