Tag: Glens Falls

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    Producing paper — Despite a mill’s closing, industry remains

    Despite a mill’s closing, industry’s role in region remains strong   The Essity tissue mill in South Glens Falls shut down in July, eliminating 300 jobs and ending a tradition of nearly 140 years of paper manufacturing at the site. But industry insiders say the Essity mill faced special pressures that don’t reflect a broader read more

    Producing paper — Despite a mill’s closing, industry remains
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    New library found a village of avid readers

    The four most popular book titles in the first year of operation of Crandall Free Library can still be checked out at the Glens Falls library today, albeit in newer editions. But these classic works of fiction have only a fraction of the circulation they had in 1892 and 1893. “The demand for certain books read more

    New library found a village of avid readers
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    A newspaperman who toiled till his last breath

    Even on the day of his death, Editor W.A. Wilkins of The Whitehall Times did not miss deadline, although he worked from home instead of the newspaper office. “He complained of mental lassitude during the day and did not engage in his work with his usual zest and satisfaction,” the newspaper reported in its Aug. read more

    A newspaperman who toiled till his last breath
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    Glens Falls murals add to a growing arts scene

      The Glens Falls artist Esmond Lyons gestures from a construction lift toward his new mural on the side of a building in the city’s east end. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. Esmond Lyons looked up on a sunny September afternoon to assess his work in progress.Above the read more

    Glens Falls murals add to a growing arts scene
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    In heyday of canal shipping, a race against ice

    It was a risky venture, but Albert Stewart, “the potato and apple king of Washington County,” dispatched one last shipment from Fort Edward on Thanksgiving Day of 1888, despite the icy waters of the Champlain and Erie canals. Barges had been stalled at various points along the canals for days, and some potatoes awaiting shipment read more

    In heyday of canal shipping, a race against ice
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    Placing bets as politicians reached the homestretch

    A Republican rally at Whitehall, N.Y., was not, as it turned out, the best place for Democrats to line up wagers on the 1888 presidential election, in which Republican Benjamin Harrison was challenging Democrat Grover Cleveland’s bid for a second term. “Two Glens Falls Democrats and one from Fort Ann went to Whitehall the other read more

    Placing bets as politicians reached the homestretch
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    Robert Blackburn changed views of printmaking

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    Show at Hyde celebrates master printer Blackburn and those he inspired   Robert Blackburn’s “Refugees” (also known as “People in a Boat”) was completed about 1938, when he was still a teenager, and nearly a decade before he opened the printmaking workshop that would reshape his own art and the works of many others. He read more

    Robert Blackburn changed views of printmaking
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    A candidate tests his party’s appetite for reform

    Before Glens Falls native Charles Evans Hughes entered the race for New York governor in 1906, Republicans from Warren and Washington counties were lining up behind an early candidate from Saratoga County: state Sen. Edgar Truman Brackett. “Senator Brackett would make an ideal candidate for governor,” said Addison B. Colvin, a former state treasurer who read more

    A candidate tests his party’s appetite for reform
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    Retired editor ponders newspapers’ decline

    Retired editor ponders newspapers’ decline, collects columns in new book Ken Tingley, the longtime editor of the Glens Falls daily The Post-Star, says the stories of local people are the lifeblood of journalism. Courtesy photo by Jenn March   By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. Ken Tingley, who retired last year after more than read more

    Retired editor ponders newspapers’ decline
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    On the seventh day, local blue laws ruled

    The 1886 Independence Day celebration in Glens Falls took on the feeling of a New Year’s Eve party when July Fourth fell on a Sunday, delaying the festivities until Monday, July 5. “When the hands of the clock passed the hour of midnight this morning, removing the restraints of the Sabbath, a score of patriotic read more

    On the seventh day, local blue laws ruled