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Warren County And Washington County Real Estate Transactions September 22nd-28th

Written by Staff Report on October 16, 2023. Posted in Featured, Property.

Warren County

Bolton

Estate of Robert G. Delma sold property at 26 Shallow Beach Road to Andrew & Lindsay McMarrow for $625,000

The Gage Trust u/t/a dated May 13, 2016- Mesa, Arizona sold property at 43 Deer Creek Road to Marc Cameron Conner & Barbara Jo Reyes Conner-Saratoga Springs for $1,198,734.17

Chester

John J. & Kathy A Farman sold property at 117 Jones Rd to John C. & Debra A Marcinka for $272,000

Glens Falls

Donna M. Bombard sold property at 9 Grant Ave to Francis & Ann Dougherty for $169,000

Briscoe Property Ventures, LLC sold property at 44 Grove Ave to Kristine Diane Burchfield for $325,000

Estate of Richard Every sold property at 11 ½ & 13 First Street to New First St. LLC for $360,000

6 Bacon,LLC sold property at 6 Bacon Street to Kesson, LLC for $227,500

Hague

Hal Connolly sold property at 9236 Lakeshore Drive to William & Tara Lindheimer for $1.35-million

Horicon

Next Generation TS FBO Michael Infantino IRa 1854 sold property at 282 East Shore Drive to Shawn Berger & Lynne Catnar-Berger for $650,000

John P. & Donna M. Clark sold property at State Route 8 to Michael A. & Annika Prisco for $550,000

Johnsburg

Randall & Cheryl MacNeill sold property at 710 Harrington Road to Joseph Warren Dononvan Shapiro & Jane Shapiro for $271,000

Lake George

Noel & Bernadette Behan sold property at 3210 Lakeshore Drive (1/10 interest Lodge 41, Lodges at Cresthaven Three) to Voltec, Inc. for $55,000
Estate of Mary Beth Crocitto sold property off Hubbel Lane to MAAP Capital Partners LLC for $780,000

Mark E. & Idiko T. McPhilmy sold property at 3014 Lake Shore Drive Unit 20A to Jeffert & Kerstin Flanagan for $200,000

Lake Luzerne

Kurl H. & Annette M. Kilmer sold property at Bird Brook to Carl & Jaclyn Falotico to $69,000

Bonita L. Bennett sold property at Gage Hill Road to Joshua 7 Amy Beers for $33,000

Estate of John Thomas Toal sold property at 22 Katherine Drive to Richard Craig Nicholson & Sabrine E. Nicholson for $177,500

Queensbury

Daniel Mannix, referee sold property at 44 Willow Road to 20 Cap Fund 1, LLC for $80,000

Tina Arcul-DeMarsh sold property at 17 Evanna Drive to Janine & Scott Reuter for $445,000

Madalline Torress & Renee Branigan sold property at 446 Luzerne Road to Raymond Mound for $272,000

Anthony & Carole Ricciardell sold property at 27 Orchard Drive to Tom J. & Tetyana Denford for $799,900

JJ Merigan Properties, LLC sold property at 23 Sunset Lane to William David Sydlowski & Shannon Sydlowski for $995,000

Delores A. Carruthers sold property at 21 Meldon Cir to Kelly Heffernan for $462,000

Roger W. & Florence M Smith sold property at 27 Warren Lane to Matthew F. Poirier for $137,500

Albert & Lynn Zito sold property at 6 Nelson Road to Daniel P. & Lauren M. Morley for $450,000

Estate of Karl W. Hagadorn sold property at 960 West MOuntain Road to Leroy Reed Jr. & Kelly Reed for $365,000

Dale Michael Harris & Dale Marie Harris sold property at 30 Fox Hollow Road to Megha Sharma & Vishal Patil for $575,000

Roslyn M. Johnson sold property at 1144 Ridge Road to Donald L. & Lito L. Abrams for $375,000

William & Connie VanNess sold property at 9 Ohio Ave to James M. Huntly for $93,000

Lauren Christine Trippodo Valerie Ann Rompa & James F. & Shirley K. Salerno sold property at 11 Burnt Hills Drive to James Connoers & Josephine Massiminl for $465,000

George Benton Jr. & Lisa A. Benton sold property at 35 Essex Ct. to Ronald & Lois Sportiello for $630,000

Dean J. Beckos sold property at 26 Fox Hollow Lane to Nicolas C. & Kerry E. Giumarra for $585,000

Stony Creek

Dane E. Axen sold property at 125 Murray Road to Zayachek Properties LLC for $325,000

Warrensburg

Jorge Torres & Renee Branigan sold property at 29 C Balsam Crest Lane to Ralph J & Michelle M. Buonome for $350,000

Juan C. Landaverde & Robert E. Schwindt III sold property at 3 Hackensack Ave to Michael & Elsa Sukrhham for $265,000

Thomas F. Swan sold property at 6 Woodward Ave to Justine R. Brennan for $175,000

786 AZS Realty Inc sold property at 56 Grandview Lane to Kimberly Ann Barron for $280,000

Washington County

Argyle

Northwoods Land Development, LLC sold property at 0 Lick Springs Road 2 Lots to Christopher Richter & Stacy Akaka for $120,000

Gerald M. D’Angelico sold property at 147 Pleasant Valley Road to Winter M. & Kyle A. Sipowicz for $161,600

Cambridge

McNeice Family Farm, LLC sold property at 73 Edie Road to Lain & Danielle Holmes for $760,000

Hartford

A.Daniel Middleton sold property at County Route 19 to Ulices Hernesdez for $48,000

Hebron

Anthony J. Knettel, Sole Surviving Heir sold property at 3158 County Route 30 to Susan M. Sheldon for $500

Fort Ann

Matthew J. Eberlein sold property at 49 Lakewood Drive to Biernacki Property Management, LLC for $125,000

Robert L. & Judith Ann Schulz sold property at Constitution Way to Patrick & Karen McCarney for $85,000

Leroy Reed, Jr. & Kelly Reed sold property at 11 Wastina Way to Kevin P. & Lisa E. Truax, as Trustees of Truax Family Revocable Trust for $525,000

Fort Edward

19 Parry Street, LLC sold property at 19 Parry Street to REO Home Services, LLC for $152,000

Kathleen A Mercurio sold property at 278 Broadway ro Ashley Wright & John Civitello sor $245,000

Newrez, LLC dba Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing DBA sold property at 40 Center Street to Robert Cherico for $145,000

Granville

Ann Peternell as Exec. of Last will of Frank R. Pekar & Catherine J. Page fka Pekar sold property at 69 Quaker Street to Roxanne Combs-Faxon for $117,000

Hebron

Frank & Leona Gartano sold property at Mountainside Meadows Way to Barry K. Linendoll III for $28,000

Jackson

Theresa Gambinno sold property at 13 Pine Knoll Way to 13 Pine Knoll, LLC for $120,000

Kingsbury

Erik Schill, Rebecca Epstien nka Shill sold property at 34 Pearl Street to Carl Skogsberg & Elizabeth Ashley Skogsberg for $235,000

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Trustee of Morgan Stanley ABS Capital Inc. Trust sold property at 5 Cherry Street tot REO Home Services, LLC for $75,000

Dennis Moyer sold property at 57 Coleman Avenue to Melody Anne Hall for $211,100

James Atherton-Ely sold property at 18 Elizabeth Street to Cadence Matthew Lasporte-Smith for $235,000

Putnam

Matilda Jane Kraemer as Trustee of Matilda Jane Kraener Revocable Trust sold property at754 County Route 2 ro Darlene Kerr for $170,000

Casey L. King sold property at 1071 County Route 2 to Lawrence Lewis Bryant, Jr. & Martha Yebra Bryant for $525,000

Claudia K. Braymar, Esq., Ref, Jason S. Bennett sold property at17462 State Route 22 to Amanda S. Benedict for $112,001

Salem

Daryl W. Winslow sold property at 95 east Broadway ro Mark Gilliam & Kimberly Jayne Gilliam for $269,900

White Creek

Richard Erik Feus, Frederick David Feus, & Jason Paul Feus as Sole heirs of estate of Richard Feus sold property at 0 South Union Street to Equity Trust Company Custodian FBO Jan Woodcock IRA for $7,500

Judith S. Short sold property at 1 Second Street to Deborah Nelson for $270,000

Whitehall

Christopher Shambo, Esq.:ref, Donna R. Spoor & Roger Callonnec sold property at 13 1st Avenue to PHH Mortgage Corporation for $91,585.15

Justin Michael Millett sold property at 2700 County Route to Ryan W. & Kimberly Marviglio for $116,600

Dorothy H. Rich, Thomas R. Levasseur & Jason J. Rich FKA Clader sold property at 2067 Upper Turnpike Road to William Gerrit Gurner & Victoria Gail Gurner for $245,000

Major Winter Attractions and Special Events Coming to Lake George, NY Area

Written by Staff Report on October 12, 2023. Posted in Columns, Community, Downtown, Entertainment, Featured, News.

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. – This winter, Lake George, N.Y., will welcome a pair of magical celebrations to delight people of all ages:

In December, Lake George Winter’s Dream, a brand-new outdoor immersive multimedia experience, will unfold at the Fort William Henry historical fortress. Surrounding visitors in light, sound, original music, video projection and interactivity, the experience will recall the rich emotions, sensations and magic of the winter season. The attraction will unfold in the Fort’s outdoor courtyard and on its four bastions.

Next Door to Fort William Henry, at Festival Commons in Lake George, Winter Realms: The Wintertainment Destination will enchant visitors with ice skating, dazzling lights, larger-than-life motifs, a sculpture park, igloos, Santa’s Village, a Polar Ice Bar, and a variety of other winter attractions.

Winter Realms will open on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, coinciding with Lake George’s Lite Up the Village Holiday kickoff event. Tickets for Winter Realms will go on sale Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Winter’s Dream will open in early December. To join the waiting list for Winter’s Dream tickets, or receive updates, please visit LakeGeorgeWintersDream.com.

Winter’s Dream is created and produced by the award-winning multidisciplinary studio Moment Factory. Established in Montreal, Moment Factory is an international studio that has crafted more than 525 projects worldwide, including productions with Madonna, Billie Eilish, the Toronto Zoo, Sony, the Boston Museum of Science and the Lumina Night Walk series.

Winter Realms, created by the artists behind the famous Ice Castles, will debut a new, more weather-resistant winter experience. The unique blend of artistry and winter wonder will ensure unforgettable winter memories for visitors even when winter weather is scarce.

“Lake George is first with family fun all summer and fall. Now, we hope it will be the leading place for new and memorable wintertime family entertainment, too,” said Warren County Winter Coalition Chairman Vincent Crocitto II.

Lake George Winter’s Dream and Winter Realms received financial support from Warren County as part of the public-private effort to foster year-round tourism and local employment. Both events are supported by Warren County Tourism/Visit the Lake George Area of the Adirondacks and the Warren County Winter Coalition.

Tickets for these events will be sold separately to allow visitors to select the most convenient entry times for their groups. For more information, please visit LakeGeorgeWintersDream.com and www.winterrealms.com.

About the Warren County Winter Coalition: The Warren County Winter Coalition is a non-profit group of Lake George area business and community leaders working to expand wintertime employment opportunities for local people, generate new revenue for local businesses and sales and occupancy tax revenue for Warren County, and foster the development of year-round tourism in the region. Vincent Crocitto II is president of the Coalition.

Glens Falls Symphony Presents Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena to 1500 School Children in the Adirondack Park

Written by Staff Report on October 12, 2023. Posted in Business, Columns, Community, Entertainment, Featured, News.

Glens Falls Symphony will present a special performance of Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena by Evan Mack and Josh McGuire, American composers, librettists, pianists and friends.

The opera stars of Seagle Festival, in Schroon Lake, NY along with our fully professional symphony musicians will present this coming of age, Christmas opera based on the Mexican folktale of the poinsettia.

Students from Queensbury, Lake George, Warrensburg, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Keene Valley, homeschool associations, and more will be attending this school-day concert at the Warrensburg Middle School/ High School Auditorium on Friday, November 17 with three 48 min performances starting at 9:00am.

The Glens Falls Symphony takes great pride in the tradition of the children’s concert which shares music made on instruments with hundreds of years of history. Glens Falls is the smallest city in America to support a fully professional symphony, making this opportunity both unique, and important for the rural school districts it will be serving. “With an array of electronic devices and access to the internet, kids have so much at their fingertips” said Senator Betty Little. “However, there is nothing like the sound of a live symphony. The Glens Falls Symphony is phenomenal. These students are in for a very special and memorable treat.”

Executive Director Jennifer Brink says “Sharing the tremendous range of the orchestra sounds with young people who may never have heard these instruments before is a wondrous thing. We are delighted that after several years of planning, the children in our region can hear the talented musicians of the Glens Falls Symphony in a concert designed just for them. We hope to continue this program with new concerts each year so that the Glens Falls Symphony forms a critical piece of every local child’s cultural education. We feel we have a duty to share this great art with children, and to contribute to building the arts audiences of tomorrow.”

When asked about why he chose Lucinda for this program, Music Director Charles Peltz shares, everyone loves a unique Holiday gift and the Glens Falls Symphony is putting a bow on a special theatrical present for the children of our communities. Our colleague the eminently gifted composer Evan Mack has offered to co-produce with the Glens Falls Symphony his wildly successful children’s opera “Lucinda”. We love his tuneful tale of old Mexico and the legend of the poinsettia. The musicians of the orchestra are eager to make music- and magic! – with Evan and the Seagle Colony as we bring to life this charming musical miniature.

Each character in Lucinda will be represented in brilliant fusion of the opera with a traditional children’s Mexican story regarding the birth of the poinsettia flowers! This could be the first and only opera that many Adirondack Park students experience. This beautiful opera educates children, touches their hearts and illuminates the understanding, and true meaning behind the power of gift giving. One objective of presenting live music by professional musicians in this way is to inspire more young people to take up band and orchestra instruments when the opportunity comes.

The concert is supported by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. The Charles R. Wood Foundation, and the JM MacDonald Foundation.

The 2023-24 Glens Falls Symphony 40^th Anniversary concert season is sponsored by Glens Falls National Bank.

About Glens Falls Symphony

Since Maestro Charles Peltz’ arrival in 2000, the fully professional Glens Falls Symphony has performed a dynamic repertoire, regularly including musical premieres and world-renowned guest artists while expanding musical offerings to include family concerts, summer pops programs and more. Cited as “one of the great orchestras of our country” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Joseph Schwantner, the orchestra comprises professional musicians who come from all over the Northeast to perform.

About Seagle Festival

Seagle Festival is the premiere opera and musical theater producing organization in the Adirondack Region of upstate New York, and the oldest and one of the most distinguished summer vocal training programs in the United States, founded in 1915 by renowned singer and voice teacher Oscar Seagle. Over our 100+ year history, Seagle Festival has transitioned from a successful family-run business to a well-established non-profit organization, run and staffed by leaders in the field of opera and musical theater performances and vocal training, and overseen by a committed and diverse board of directors.

The non-profit corporation Seagle Music Colony, Inc. doing business as Seagle Festival has deep roots in the town of Schroon Lake, New York but serves a much larger community of artists and staff that have participated or worked at Seagle Festival and now live and work across the country and around the world. The mission, vision and values of Seagle Festival include a commitment to the highest quality performances for our devoted audiences and top-notch vocal training for aspiring vocalists of all backgrounds and identities.

About Evan Mack

Believing that opera should be theater grounded in climatic expression that delivers larger-than-life stories and music that harnesses the full athletic thrill of singing, Evan Mack has devoted much of his compositional life to opera and song. His first major operatic composition, where he served as both composer and librettist, was Angel of the Amazon. “Angel” premiered in May of 2011 by Encompass New Opera Theatre at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City and was subsequently released on CD worldwide by Albany Records. Two years later, Fresno State Opera Theater premiered The Secret of Luca. This was the first of several collaborations with librettist Joshua McGuire. In August 2016, their American grand opera Roscoe premiered at Seagle Music Colony to rave reviews. Roscoe received its orchestral world premiere with the Albany Symphony starring Metropolitan Opera star Deborah Voigt. In between the two large scale projects, Mack & McGuire found time to write the first ever opera for Twitter #IsOperaDead – an opera in 5 acts lasting one minute and forty seconds.

Their Christmas opera for children, Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena is quickly becoming a holiday standard with yearly productions by San Francisco Opera, Opera in the Heights and Fresno State Opera, who commissioned the opera. The one-act opera The Ghosts of Gatsby premiered by Samford Opera in Birmingham, AL in 2019 and won the National Opera Association’s Argento Chamber Opera Competition. Mack & McGuire’s latest, Yeltsin in Texas! premiered in 2020 by TCU and Opera in the Heights. It’s now in development to become a musical comedy!

Evan Mack has proven as deft at song writing as he is in opera. His song A Little More Perfect is a setting of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s final paragraph of the Marriage Equality Decision by the Supreme Court in 2015. Premiering at Seagle Music Colony in 2015, it has quickly become a favorite of many baritones including Michael Mayes, Daniel Okulich and Michael Miller to name a few. The song had its professional premiere at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2016 and the orchestral premiere at the Fort Worth Opera Festival in 2017. His new cycle If Only Lenny Were Here, which celebrates the life of Leonard Bernstein had its world premiere with the Schenectady Symphony in October of 2018.

Evan was named “2018 Professional of the Year” by Musical America, was a composing fellow at the John Duffy Composers Institute and a resident artist at Yaddo. He is currently published with Hal Leonard, Alfred, and Amazon. Evan is a Teaching Professor at Skidmore College. He lives in Ticonderoga, NY with his wife, Kristin and two sons, Carter and Henry.

About Joshua McGuire

Joshua has written librettos for The Secret of Luca, (based on the novel by Ignazio Silone) and Roscoe (based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize winner William Kennedy) with music by Evan Mack. In October 2016, Roscoe received a full performance by the Albany Symphony featuring soprano Deborah Voigt in the lead role of Veronica. His collaboration with Mack also produced Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena, a children’s opera commissioned by the Fresno State Opera Theatre. Since premiering in 2016, the opera has played for over 25,000 children, including annual performances by the San Francisco Opera Guild. Mack & McGuire’s one-act opera The Ghosts of Gatsby, based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, won the the National Opera Association’s 2019 Dominick Argento Prize for contemporary opera, with subsequent productions by Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory and Opera Las Vegas, among others.

Yeltsin in Texas! — a comedy about the fall of the U.S.S.R. commissioned and premiered by Opera in the Heights and Texas Christian University in February 2020 — is currently being expanded and developed into a full-length musical theatre piece with The Blueprint Project. McGuire is currently developing A Nearer Mother with Evan Mack (based on the life of AIDS activist Ruth Coker Burks), as well as a multimedia opera entitled Siddhartha (after the novel by Hermann Hesse) with composer Murray Hidary.

In 2015, McGuire was commissioned to write a libretto for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, and the resulting one-act opera, Alexandra, with music by David Clay Mettens, was premiered at the Kennedy Center. He is also the author of The Secret of Music: a look at the listening life, a book of essays on music and mindfulness. McGuire is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, Opera America, and the the American Center for New Works Development.

McGuire currently teaches at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. He studied at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he pursued Master’s work in both guitar and orchestral conducting, holding assistantships in both areas. As an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, he took the Bachelor of Music summa cum laude as well as High Honors in English Literature for his thesis on musical structures in the work of James Joyce. He currently resides in Nashville with his wife, pianist and conductor Jennifer McGuire, their son Thomas, and a basset hound.

Contact the symphony to reserve your seats for your school, organization, association, church group etc. Good seats still available. Transportation funding available by request.

CONCERT PROGRAM:

Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena by Evan Mack and Josh McGuire
9:00am / 10:30am / 12:15pm Friday November 17, 2023
Opera Singers Conducted by Richard Kagey, Seagle festival
Orchestra Conducted by Charles Peltz
Warrensburg Middle/High School Auditorium

Visit the Symphony website at www.theglensfallssymphony.org
Call the Symphony office at 518-793-1348
Mailing address: Glens Falls Symphony, PO Box 2036, Glens Falls NY 12801
Office Location: Upstairs in the LARAC Building, 7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls NY 12801

Warren County Property Auction Scheduled for Saturday, October 21st

Written by Staff Report on October 12, 2023. Posted in Business, Community, Featured, Home & Garden, Property.

More than 30 properties will be available for purchase when Warren County Real Property Tax Services Office holds its annual live public auction of tax-foreclosed property on Saturday, October 21st, 2023, at Warren County Courthouse.

Among the 31 properties on the list as of this week are single family homes, commercial property, and vacant lots, including two with waterfront access – all of which were foreclosed upon for non-payment of property taxes. Auction proceeds will be handled in accordance with recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings related to tax foreclosure auctions.

For further information and links to the full tax foreclosure property information booklet, which includes detailed descriptions and photographs of each property, check the auction company website here. (Scroll down on this web page for Warren County’s auction.) This website includes a photo gallery featuring the available Warren County properties.

More information can also be found at https://warrencountyny.gov/rp, or with Auctions International at www.auctionsinternational.com.

Registration will begin at 8:00 AM, and the auction starts at 10:00 AM. Warren County Courthouse is located at the Warren County Municipal Center complex, at 1340 State Route 9 in Queensbury.

2023 • Live! Folklife Concerts • Free Maire Ni Chathasaigh & Chris Newman

Written by Staff Report on October 10, 2023. Posted in Community, Downtown, Entertainment, Featured, In the Arts.

On Thursday, October 19th, Crandall Library will host a free Folklife concert featuring Maire Ni Chathasaigh & Chirs Newman. This dynamic duo is made up of two extraordinarily talented international musicians!

Maire is one of Ireland’s most important and influential traditional musicians. Her love of the Harp began at age eleven, and her West Cork background influenced her technique while she played traditional music steeped in oral traditions. Chris, a prolific composer, arranger and record producer began playing the guitar at age four, and played his first paying gig at the age of fourteen in a folk club.

The pair made their debut on the main stage at the 1987 Cambridge Folk Festival, and have been touring the world together ever since.

Their talent is recognized the world over: the “Blazing guitar and dancing harp” (Irish Linen). This celebrated partnership of “one of the UK’s most staggering and influential acoustic guitarists” (fRoots) with “the doyenne of Irish harpers” (Scotland On Sunday) has presented its unique musical vision in twenty-two countries on five continents, to venues ranging from the tiniest of village halls to palaces in Kyoto and Istanbul, London’s Barbican, Sydney Town Hall, and the Philharmonie in Cologne. Expect a breathtaking blend of traditional Irish music, hot jazz, bluegrass, and baroque, spiced with striking new compositions.

First Show: Crandall Library Glens Falls, NY – Thursday, October 19th, 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30) – Crandalllibrary.org

Second Show: At the Historic Salem Courthouse, Salem, NY – Friday, October 20th, 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30) – www.salemcourthouse.org

For more information, please visit www.maireandchris.com

The Albany Rock Pit is Taking the Capital Region by Storm!

Written by Staff Report on October 10, 2023. Posted in Business, Community, Education, Entertainment, Featured.

The music scene is about to get a new infusion of talent in the Capital Region! The Albany Rock Pit opened on August 1st, and is already setting lofty goals based on the premise of team building and community through live performances. Located at 9 Norman Drive in Albany, The Albany Rock Pit is gearing up for its grand opening on October 24th, 2023.

The Albany Rock Pit accepts students as young as 5 years old, and offers four different age groups lessons and performances: “This all evolved when my daughter’s music school closed,” says Kim Lindh, co-partner now professionally as well as personally with Tess Collins, the owner of McGeary’s. “There’s a nichemarket that was unfulfilled… Music is needed. It’s an outlet. It’s both expressive and therapeutic”.

“The space was available next to Kim’s shop and it’s in the perfect area,” stated Collins. “We were able to transform the space into a music school within 30 days during the Summer… And, since we’ve opened, we’ve seen an influx of students and instructors. They realize what we’re trying to build here… We’re absolutely stressing team building and community,” she said.

“What sets this apart from any other music school, the kids interact together and will have an opportunity to play live in the local music scene,” continued Lindh. “The kids are multi-talented. They’ll not only be able to set up their own equipment and perform their own sound checks, but they play different instruments, too… So, you’ll see them switch off playing different instruments as they go from song to song. And, what’s good for them, they’re not paying a venue to have a recital or a performance. They’re getting the real experience now with the guidance of the school, so they’re fully prepared for what they can expect down the road.”

“The first show for these kids will be December 2nd and 3rd at September’s in Colonie,” continued Collins. “They’ll perform a variety of hits from the 1980s, while sprinkling in songs from the 1960’s associated with the ‘British Invasion’… Then, once we get into the first quarter of 2024, we’ll change up the musical theme on a quarterly basis.”

The Albany Rock Pit just hosted their first “Open Mic/Free Jam Friday” which will continue the first Friday of every month!

The ribbon-cutting ceremony – the first ever for both Collins and Lindh – will be Tuesday, October 24th at the Albany Rock Pit. Assembly member Pat Fahy will be attending the ceremony.

For more information regarding the Albany Rock Pit, please contact Kim Lindh at kimlindh@albanyrockpit.com, or Tess Collins at Tess@mcgearys.com. You can also visit their Facebook page at Albany Rock Pit.

Road Salt “Summit” Seeks to Protect Environment and Roads

Written by Staff Report on October 9, 2023. Posted in Community, Featured.

The Lake George Association held the 8th Annual Adirondack Champlain Regional Salt Summit at The Fort William Henry Hotel and Conference Center in Lake George to bringing together stakeholders from around the Adirondacks – many of them from Warren County – to discuss the ongoing effort to keep roads clear while using less road salt.

Warren County and the towns along Lake George in the county have been leaders in the use of saltwater brine instead of road salt – an emerging technology as experts have looked to lessen the damage that road salt does to the environment.

Warren County Department of Public Works Superintendent Kevin Hajos, center, was among the event’s panelists. Hajos was a member of the Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force, which studied ways to reduce road salt use and issued a report earlier this fall.

The day-long event was held to bring experts together with highway personnel to refine ways to cut road salt use in the Adirondacks. Warren County DPW has been one of the leading agencies in use of salt brine; purchasing equipment to make and distribute brine that is also used by town highway crews in the county.

For more Information, please visit Lake George Association

Lake George Battlefield Park,”Fort George/Carlton’s Raid” Marker Unveiling

Written by Staff Report on October 9, 2023. Posted in Community, Featured.

*Senator Daniel Stec and Lake George Town Supervisor Vinnie Crocitto unveiling the historical marker*

New York State Senator Daniel Stec was joined by Lake George Town Supervisor Dennis Dickinson and Deputy Town Supervisor Vinnie Crocitto in unveiling the new “Fort George” historical marker near the entrance to Lake George Battlefield Park on Sunday, October 8th, 2023, before approximately 40 interested members of the public.

The marker describes the final destruction of the patriot fortification by British Major Christopher Carleton as the ultimate act in his series of raids on military and private property during the fall of 1780. This unveiling was orchestrated by Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance Trustee Pat Niles, who led a tour after the unveiling ceremony of locations in the park that are connected to Carleton’s raid.

In addition to Senator Stec and Pat Niles, speakers at the event included Margy Mannix (Lake George Town Historian) and Charles Vandrei, Historic Preservation Officer for the State Department of Environmental Conservation.

For more information, please visit lakegeorgebattlefield.org

Warren County and Washington County Real Estate Transactions September 15th-21st

Written by Staff Report on October 9, 2023. Posted in Featured, Property.

Bolton

Kurt W. & Florence Stoffel sold property at New Vermont Road to Lake George LAnd Conservancy for $100,000

Chester

William & Lynn Sutch sold property at Van Guilder Road to Fiddlehead Holdings LLC for $40,000

James Christopher Mrazek sold property at Grove Street to Haley Grygiel for $14,000

Alonzo Roberts sold property at 1436 N. Gore Road to Bienvenido Gonzalez Jr. & Adriane Gonzalez for $243,200

Ellen M. O’Brien Revocable trust sold property at 11 East Shore Road to Kenneth & Cynthia O’Bien for $600,500

Glens Falls

Renee Hahn sold property at 71 McDonald Street to Girard Properties LLC for $105,000

Clute Enterprises, Inc & Haviland Park Townhomes, LLC sold property at 54 Overlook Drive to William Lanzisero for $319,900

Serena M. Lafayette sold property at 9 Dudley Street to Michael & Daniel Green for $220,000

Elizabeth S. Duell sold property at 21 Mohawk Street to Loren & Sharon Carpenter for $210,000

Mary Ellen Bernard sold property at 9 Vanderheyden Street to Cory P Porter & Kellyn Perkett for $252,500

Wynn Star LLC sold property at 11 Keenan Street to Baldwin Enterprises LLC for $110,000

Estate of G. Emmitt Smith sold property at 29 Fort Amherst Road to Amy W & John S Kraft for $420,000

Melchizedek Real Estate & Development LLC sold property at 40 Hunter Street to Tyler Carman for $220,000

Horicon

Tate Michael Higgins & Vidvinzka Higgins sold property at 246 Grassville Road to Vidvinzka Higgins for $16,000

Schroon Properties LLC sold property at Lakeshore Drive to Moss Creek Holdings LLC for $139,000

William C.Hoff & Ann Waldorf-Hoff sold property 416 East Shore Drive to Christian & Tracy Clevenger for $1,349,900

Johnsburg

Angelo & Mary Lobue sold property at 28c Freebern Road to Fabio Danisi & Barbara Chatr-Aryamontri for $290,000

2361 Properties LLC sold property at 52 Fairview Ave to Angelo N. & Mary F. Lobue for $295,000

Dwight Allen sold property at Barney Hill road to Elizabeth B. Cressman for $35,000

Lake George

37 Greenfield LLC sold property at 50 Christina Ct. to Lauren & Jamie Cohn for $2.2-million

Robitaille Living Trust dated Dec 6 2021 sold property at 16 Ochs Pond Road to Ziggy & Diane Rozalski for $480,000

BDC Crosbyside LLC sold property at 6 Foot Path Way to Sedat M. & Andrezza Surmeli for $659,000

Stony Creek

Steven & Kathleen Cole sold property at 182 & 186 Lens Lake Road to Jason M. & Susan M. Hoffman for $35,000

Thurman

Lee H. & Carol A. Eckl sold property at 493 Bowen Hill Road to Scott M., Jeanine M., & Laura J Henderson for $77,500

Queensbury

Nancy Machell (aka Nancy Marocco) sold property at 18 Margaret Drive to Cristina Marchese for $240,000

Alfred J. Balsamo & Tina M. Gonzales sold property at 27 Sunset Drive to Laura T. Stone for $290,000

Michael J. & Deborah A. Spaulding sold property at 55 Winconal Lane to Jennifer K. Ivanov for $590,000

Bryan Townsend sold property at 849 Sherman Ave to Anthony Redd Squadere for $200,000

Brendan & Cindy Murray sold property at 16 Surcingle Road to Monsour Enterprises LLC for $110,000

Lakeshore Acres LLC sold property at Pilots Knob Road to Santore’s World Famous Fireworks, LLC for $100,000

Kathleen J. Wood sold property at Corinth Road to Warren County for $5,000

Garnet Holdings, LLC sold property at 19 Forest Road to Michael DiBernardo for $386,000

Andrew P & Margaret Urban sold property at 10 Minnesota Ave to Craig Turner for $40,000

Warrensburg

Bradley West sold property at 19 Third Ave to Dylan Robert Anable for $210,000

George D McGowan sold property at Pucker Street to Jaclyn Mulligan & Adam G Luccesi for $160,000

Scott Mill sold property at 116 Forest Lake Road to Mauren E Mitchell for $39,900

Washington County

Argyle

James E Bain sold property at 460 Dutchtown Road to Cherokee Manning for $115,000

Beshara Enterprises LLC sold property at 300 Durkeetown Road to Nicholas John Stoltz & Adrianna Stoltz for $369,900

Cambridge

Kevin M. Ryan sold property at 63 Durfee Road to Aaron M & Lindsay R Heller for $400,000

Easton

Chalen Lathrop Exec. of Estate of Grace M. aka Erma Snell sold property at Grove Road to Harold Snell & Tracy Hebert Snell for $45,000

Fort Edward

Michael T. O’Sick as Exec. of Estate of Mark T. O’Sick sold property at 67 Perkins Drive to Halee Scarincio & Brayden Ordway for $205,000

Granville

John R., & Stephen C. Winn sold property at Burtis Avenue to Steven Betit for $125,000

Greenwich

Karen H. Griffis sold property at 680 County Route 49 to Meyers Burnell Properties LLC for $142,500

Kristin Nelson Darrow as Admin of Estate of James C. Darrow Jr. sold property at 12 Hill Street tot Brymer Construction for $235,000

James J., & Sarah McMillan sold property at Spraguetown Road to John D. Solan Jr. & Jana L. Solan for $81,000

Hartford

Lynne Aubrey & Laurie Shackelford sold property at 5711 County Route 30 to Amber Walden for $150,000

Joel & Claudia Rutter sold property at 1121 LUndy Road to Eric Michael Bates for $269,000

Jackson

Dwight C. McGee Jr. as Trustee of the Louise M Walrath Irrevocable Trust sold property at Route 22 (Portion of Colfox Road) to John M & Fannie A Miller for $95,000

Cory & Sarah McMiIlan sold property at 130 McMillan Road to Sydney Gorner & Anders Proft for $211,000

Kingsbury

Jeffery Ledgard sold property at 1112 County Route 41 to Tiffany Wheeler Pond for $159,000

Salem

Tauno K. Wirkki sold property at 4029 State Route 22 to Deborah Giovannangelo for $13,200

US Bank Trust National Association, Trustee of RCF 2 Acquisition Trust sold property at 28 Vale Street to Anthony Catalano & Mary Kate Bykowski for $58,500

Wayne H. Judge , Esq. Ref. Terry L Morrison & Stacey A Morrison aka Loya sold property at 88 Pitt LAne to US Bank Trust National Association, Trustee of Bungalow Series IV Trust for #211,607.31

White Creek

Nicole Kiebeiko as Trustee for the Phillip R., & Barbara A, Kingaley Family Revocable Trust sold property at128 County Route 68 to Alec Thomas McMorris & Crystal L McMorris for $635,000

US Bank Trust National Association, Trustee of VRMTG Asset Trust sold property at 994 Chestnut Hill Road to Marion L Wadsworth for $76,000

Jonathan C. Blackburn sold property at 25 North Park Street to Edward & Gloria Sampson for $180,000

Whitehall

Michael J. Senecal as Admin of Estate of Wayne R Senecal sold property at 327 Buckley Road to Kurt Bradley Kessler Sr. for $291,000

William Carswell, Debra Carswel, & Alan Carswell sold property at 238-240 Broadway to Emily Marie Winchell & Colby Ryan Casey for $139,000l

Ian Macleod sold property at 0 County Route 9 to Andrew & Sacha Lewis for $26,000

Denise Groessbeck sold property at 314 County Route 9 to Andrew & Sacha Lewis for $36,000

ARCC: Annual Business Expo

Written by Staff Report on October 4, 2023. Posted in ARCC Spotlight, Business, Featured, GFT Business Report.

Picture this scenario as a small business owner:

You’re in a large room, filled with hundreds of members of your own local business community, and many of them are looking for the exact services you provide. Does that sound too good to be true? Fortunately, it’s 100% real and it’s coming to Glens Falls in November.

For those who haven’t heard yet, we’re talking about the ARCC’s annual Business Expo on Wednesday, November 8th.

The Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce (ARCC) helps entrepreneurs, small business owners and community members work together to improve life in the Adirondack region. The ARCC has been working on behalf of local businesses for over 100 years, and the Business Expo is just one of the many tools in their toolbox. The Expo solves a problem that many small business owners and entrepreneurs face: finding a connection to the community. That is where

the ARCC truly excels, in facilitating those critical relationships between business owners that in turn help to drive the local economy.

The ARCC Business Expo is a perfect opportunity to explore what the regional business community has to offer. Ambassadors from the ARCC will be on hand with a kind smile and easy introduction as you work your way around the event. Their ease and friendliness helps to set the tone for the day, and it again illustrates one of their core objectives of building meaningful connections.

The Business Expo allows the ARCC community to showcase their products and services and give potential customers first-hand experiences as well. Whether participants rent a booth or simply “work the room” as an attendee, the comfortable atmosphere allows customers to seek information and ask more detailed questions. It’s also an opportunity to put a face behind a business, which is an advantage for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) operations. From previous Expos, attendees have consistently reported finding significant value from the event.

This will be the second Expo under the leadership of Tricia Rogers, President and CEO of the ARCC, who took over the role in August of 2022. She and her dedicated team are expecting an even larger turnout than last year. Currently, the ARCC is experiencing a boom in membership with over 700 members and counting. They will be setting up between 80-90 booths which is an increase from just over 70 booths last year. “The ARCC Business Expo is a favorite event of our members and business community,” Rogers said. “We really look forward to this event. It’s a great opportunity to showcase our businesses.”

Rogers always takes the time to thank and show her appreciation for the ARCC staff and volunteers. She began with the ARCC as a volunteer ambassador herself, and in 2016 took on the role of Membership Manager. In early 2022, she was promoted to Vice President, Membership & Community Engagement. Later that year, she was named to her current title of President and CEO. “I feel so lucky to lead the organization in a community that I am passionate about,” said Rogers. “I love this community and really want to make a difference. It helps that I work with a great team.”

Community building is often on the mind of Marketing Director Amanda Blanton, who reiterated the importance of networking at an ARCC “Chamber 101” meeting in early September. “You will always find a person who is not familiar with your business, even if you have been in business for 50 years,” explained Blanton. Business Expos are traditionally great opportunities to network with other professionals in the same or related fields, gain exposure to new ideas, and potentially learn new skills.

For Membership Manager Ava Kanninen, this is her first Expo with the ARCC. She can already attest to the excitement. “Regular attendees have told me that they love how open and welcoming the expo is. Some of that is because we don’t use the tall pipe-and-drape booths, so we have a warm and neighborly atmosphere. I also think that the level of engagement that our partners bring to all of our events is a special thing to be a part of, and I know the members are excited because the event keeps growing every year,” she said via email.

The chamber’s recommendation for attending expos, tradeshows and conventions is to make a full circuit first, then come back and see whom you’d like to connect with. And, of course, bring plenty of business cards.

The ARCC Business Expo will be held at The Queensbury Hotel (88 Ridge St, Glens Falls), on Wednesday, November 8th, 2023, from 4pm-7pm. For attendees, the event is free of charge. There is, however, a fee for exhibitors; ARCC members who would like to exhibit must register on-line.

There are early bird deals available as well as a variety of table options to fit every business’ needs. If you can’t make the Expo or would like a more informal setting for networking, there will be a post-Expo networking opportunity at Fenimore’s Pub.

For more information, please visit the ARCC website at AdirondackChamber.org