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Northern New York’s Leading Newspaper • Down to earth and growing • Vol. 35, No. 1,587 • May 14 - 20, 2015
The concert before the concert
Chronicle Editor
Tony DeSare’s performance
with the Glens Falls Symphony
Orchestra on Mother’s Day in the
Glens Falls
High School
Tony DeSare
auditorium
was as great
as the 1,000 was great
or so concert with the GF
goers hoped
for and I
Symphony
expected.
Sunday, even
The Hudson Falls native is just so better in a
Tony DeSare at the keyboard,
masterful at
introduced by Glens Falls Symliving
room
phony maestro Charles Peltz in
it all — singSaturday evening’s living room setting.
ing, playing
night before
the piano,
who caught Tony the night
phony musicians were enjoying
hobnobbing
before at the Symphony fundhim, the music and themselves.
with the audience.
raiser in a living room on Pearl
But as good as the concert
And watching through my
was, the hundred or so of us
Please turn to page 4
binoculars, it seemed the Sym-
Max in
London
Chronicle photo/Mark Frost
By Mark Frost
Left: The Masonic Building (left).
Right: Current Kingsbury Town Hall/
former Strand Theater. A grass roots group
intends to buy the Strand and attempt to revive it as
a performing art center. Chronicle photo/Mark Frost
By Max Frost
Chronicle Freelance
Fireworks
fall-out
By Cathy DeDe
Chronicle Managing Editor
The sale of Alonzo Fireworks
in Mechanicville to a New Jersey
company is impacting local skies.
Lake
George VilAlonzo’s sale
lage will
proceed with prompts LG
its 4th of July to trim some
and Thursshows &
day night
GFSO shift to
summer
fireworks
July 3, from 4
shows, but
may forego smaller shows held
in conjunction with festivals and
other community events. Already
cancelled is the fireworks show
this week with the Performance
Boat Weekend on Lake George.
Meanwhile, the Glens Falls
Symphony Orchestra has had to
change dates from July 4th to
July 3rd for its annual concert
and fireworks at Crandall Park.
Shay Mason, the orchestra’s
executive director, tells The
Please turn to page 7
20, son of Chronicle publisher/
editor Mark Frost and Chronicle
Chief Operating Officer Sandra
Hutchinson, is on a two-week trip
to Europe, starting in England,
moving on to Poland and then
Iceland. The fourth-year student
at the University of Virginia will
again chronicle his travels for
The Chronicle. Last summer he
reported on the eight-week trip
he and his girlfriend Kira made
to India, Nepal and China.
•
Nikas option to buy HF Masonic bldg.
By Mark Frost
Chronicle Editor
Hudson Falls attorney William
Nikas said he’s taken an option
and intends to buy the five-sto-
When I booked my round-trip
flight to London several months
ago, I planned to just spend 12
ry, largely unoccupied Masonic
building, on Main Street next
to the former Strand Theater in
Hudson Falls.
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