ADK Talk
Cook book offers recipies from renowned figure skaters
GLENS FALLS -- We know they can skate, but can they cook? That's the question Michelle Capron asked herself, and the answer has sparked the most successful fundraiser that the Glens Falls Figure Skating Club has ever had.
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
South High hopes to riase money for mini grand piano
SOUTH GLENS FALLS --The newly renovated auditorium at South High has sparked a fundraising idea with member of Students and Parents in Support of the Arts (SPSA), a group started in 2006 to support the school's art programs.
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
New teachers welcomed at new venue
GLENS FALLS -- The Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce's 48th annual New Teacher Welcome event almost didn't happen this year.
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
'Fund a feast' for someone in need this Thanksgiving
The holiday season is right around the corner and need is growing at area community centers. Thankfully, food pantries are beginning to fill up thanks to contributions from area residents and some area retailers.
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Give Me 5: Five questions with ARCC President/CEO Todd Shimkus
GLENS FALLS - With the Adirondack Park to the north, Saratoga Race Course to the south and quaint hamlets to the east, amenities found in Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties speak for themselves. However, they still need someone to serve as their PR agent. Todd Shimkus is that man.
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Deeds and new businesses
Property transfers in Glens Falls last week
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
St. Mary's church to build parish center, post office 'off the table'
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
It's time to consider some changes at the top
There are times when a business finds itself in a bit of financial trouble. Come to think of it, the same applies to a family unit. You know the kind of trouble that I'm talking about. It's when, no matter what you do, your income cannot overcome your expenses so you find yourself woefull…
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
A teenage view on the health care debate
There are 46 million and the number is growing. The United States has 46 million people uninsured for health care. Most of them cannot do anything about it. They do not have health insurance through their employer. They do not have disability coverage. They have nothing. And now to add in…
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Grandstanders seeking new boosters
GLENS FALLS - Glens Falls High School has a booster club that is looking for a few good members.
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
There's a changing tide in public libraries
America's public libraries are shifting. Over the last decade - and especially in the last two years - library services have been in historic demand at a time when governmental support has been dramatically cut back.
Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Greater Glens Falls Transit begins operation of four new, low emissions buses
GLENS FALLS -- Public transportation became a bit more appealing on Nov. 2, when Greater Glens Falls Transit began regular operation of four new "low floor" transit buses to replace four older buses that each averaged more than 375,000 miles of wear-and-tear.
Nov 11, 2009 | 1:00 am | (1) Comments
Leaves have fallen, now they must be picked up
Heavy winds of late have blown most of the leaves off the trees in Glens Falls, Queensbury and South Glens Falls. That means a lot of yard work for residents and the beginning of a major fall cleanup effort on the part of Department of Public Works and Highway Department crews.
Nov 11, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
WWII veteran reminices about his time at war
SOUTH GLENS FALLS - He was raised on a farm on the Corinth Road and graduated from Glens Falls High School in 1938, and after working for a while at Montgomery Ward, Fred Durkee, who is now 92, was in the first wave of draftees to enter the Army from Glens Falls in 1940.
Nov 11, 2009 | 1:00 am | (1) Comments
Elections season is over, thank God!
Whew! It's over. The signs are coming down from the important corners, the pundits are licking their wounds and I can lean back in the rocker and smoke a cigar. No...not a victory cigar, mind you.
Nov 11, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Veterans can receive medical and monetary compensation
The Veterans Administration will compensate a veteran for an illness or injury that was incurred or aggravated in military service, for any veteran that was honorably discharged. VA formula for determining the amount of compensation is complex and is based on the percentage a person's abi…
Nov 11, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
QHS strives to get students involved in community activities
Part of Queensbury School District's mission statement reads "inspire all students... to contribute to the global community." In pursuit of this ideal, the district has established a target for 2009-2010 that "all students will be involved with extracurricular activities either in or out …
Nov 11, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Give Me 5: James "Jimmy" Hayward
James "Jimmy" Hayward is a union pipe fitter and Glens Falls real estate investor who buys foreclosed properties slated for demolition from the city's Urban Renewal Agency and restores them, getting them back on the tax rolls and cleaning up the city one building at a time.
Nov 11, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Deeds and new businesses
Property transfers in Glens Falls last week:
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New sponsor, same great parade
SOUTH GLENS FALLS - The annual Holiday Parade in South Glens Falls will be as colorful and fun as ever, but with a new sponsor this year.
Nov 10, 2009 | 12:45 pm | (0) Comments
If you build it, they will come: Library is bustling
We knew it would be big. But who could have predicted this?
Nov 04, 2009 | 11:25 am | (0) Comments
In brief: Community wide book drop at Intermediate School Nov. 7
QUEENSBURY - There will be a community wide book drop at the William H. Barton Intermediate School in Queensbury on Saturday, Nov. 7.
Nov 04, 2009 | 11:20 am | (0) Comments
East Coast skiers make the best of what's around
Anyone who grew up skiing on the East Coast knows that we aren't blessed with the most predictable ski conditions. Champagne powder is something we only read about in magazines and our "apres ski" usually involves applying P-tex to fill in holes left by protruding stumps and rocks.
Nov 04, 2009 | 11:15 am | (0) Comments
'Hometown' Thanksgiving turns 25
GLENS FALLS - This will be the 25th year that Glens Falls will hold a complete Thanksgiving dinner for free for anyone who shows up. Or so the organizers think.
Nov 04, 2009 | 11:10 am | (0) Comments
In time of need, we must work together
I was sitting on the porch the other day, when it was nice enough to do so, thinking about the meeting that I had attended the evening before.
Nov 04, 2009 | 11:05 am | (0) Comments
Give Me 5: "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
"Give Me 5" is a weekly department where ADK Talk catches up with an area newsmaker and asks him or her five questions.
Nov 04, 2009 | 10:55 am | (0) Comments
Retired Glens Falls fireman recalls his, departments past
GLENS FALLS - Being a fourth-generation firefighter, it was a bittersweet pill for John Paul "JP" Jones to swallow when he discovered a medical condition that forced him to retire.
Nov 04, 2009 | 10:45 am | (0) Comments
New Adirondack Phantoms team store opens at Aviation Mall
QUEENSBURY - Since opening on Oct. 26, the\Adirondack Phantoms store in the Aviation Mall has proved to be more than just a place where fans can go and buy a T-shirt or jersey; it is also a place where a passersby can find out about the new team in town.
Nov 04, 2009 | 10:40 am | (0) Comments
Open house at renovated Empire Theater draws a crowd
GLENS FALLS - They gathered on South Street, and just about everyone had something good to say. It was the open house at the newly renovated Empire Theater on Friday, Oct. 30, and the crowd exceeded Mike Kaidas' expectations.
Nov 04, 2009 | 10:40 am | (0) Comments
Most Read
- EVENING UPDATE -- 28 arrested at illegal party
- MORNING UPDATE -- Assault on bar owner investigated
- UPDATED -- Boat goes over dam, one man drowns
- Briana A. DiOrio
- After three deaths, school reels with grief
- MORNING UPDATE -- Man charged with DWI in Northway crash
- Queensbury man, 24, dies in pickup truck rollover
- UPDATED -- Woman hit by van, hurt
