1980 • Our 35th Year! • 2015 PRST STD U.S Postage Paid Glens Falls, N.Y. Prime-Time Seniors º 15-21 PERMIT NO. 511 Free Some memories of Dick Bartlett º 6 Circulation 28,000 © Copyright 2015 The Chronicle Phone: 518-792-1126 Memorial Day Issue next week 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. “I’m gonna buy it. I’m so com- Ad ervices Hearing S er AT? NEED HE Lake Shore TH Y, 4 -723PM ge IS FR IDA side on See our ad in pa TIME EN 55 GARDd., Queensbury • 793-85 rR 652 Quake ia v i r T r o f s U n Joi d. & Mon., We 0pm :3 Thurs., 7-9 nge in the Lou Tunz y n u L J D w/ ze s ! Great Pri 792-5399 Rte. 9 900 State bury Queens º You A Name s t. Can Tru ssociate B . AVE., QBY 287 DIX 5 Dr. e Lake Georg 668-9300 Audio s, NY 12801g.com n ., Glens Fall 16A Dix Avew w.adirondackheari 0•w 8 4 -6 3 9 7 S E I D A L N I G HT Your For Allte Needs st a Real E call Dave Strainerorker Lic. R.E. A Ganch Dr. Palouglist Godsmack packed the Civic Center. Lead singer Sully Erna 30 Please turn to page 10 Please turn to page 20 s Better !i g n i r a He e t te r Living B irondack Chronicle photo/Andrzej Pilarczyk Editor’s note: Max Frost, 636 ur y Rd., Queensb 8 -3 518 - 79 63 Quaker D SEE OURAAGE ON P 16 u XES yo Keeping FA connected PRINTERS COLOR 745-687 .com 761 .net 793-7 tile RROWS glensfalls CRAIG BU OWNER uy inal One-G “The Or iger & Fries” Bu rg our Own tY Have I t Poopie’s FAST Way a BREAK nce St. 54 Lawre-6155 792 om imannos.c ch poopied n u L s ’ o n an Furn Roses Knockouatt Est. 1954 DiM t our heck ou Come c LUNCH attress iture & M aker Rd. Qu Dix Ave. & urn.com sf • Corner of Glens Falls88 • www.livingston 793-28 COPIERS 792-6533 nd Nursery Caenter Garden • Queensbury e Rd • 361 Ridg
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