Month: May 2025

By LEE COLEMAN

Duct Kings, a new business specializing in professional air duct cleaning, dryer vent cleaning and mold removal, has opened at 5 Knabner Road in Mechanicville.

James Kennedy, owner of KPM Restoration, and Dan Kirchner started the business eight months ago and serve  Saratoga County, Albany County, Schenectady, Troy, and southern Warren County.

“Being in the restoration world, we have seen many fires that have started due to clogged dryer vents. This is an easily preventable issue,” said Kirchner, who did work for Kennedy’s fire and water restoration business.

“Along the same lines we have done many restoration projects on properties with mold, water and fire damage. The air ducts in these properties are affected and need to be cleaned for healthy air quality,” he said.

“We are fully licensed, certified and insured. We serve residential homes, businesses and institutions with the same dedication to quality and attention to detail,” Kirchner and Kennedy said in a joint statement.

“Our commitment is simple: to provide exceptional service that ensures the air quality and safety of your property,” they said.

Kirchner said it took Duct Kings a couple of months to develop a good system that is now in place. The company employs a three-person field tech crew and one office person. “We are looking to add another service van and another field tech team,” he said.

By Paul Post

 Rock Hill Bakehouse sells more than 14,000 loaves of bread per week, from Westchester to Lake Placid and is aiming for a 30 percent increase in production.

“That’s one of the main reasons we moved here, to get wholesale manufacturing back to a breakpoint in production,” owner Matt Funiciello said.

Wholesale accounts for about 80 percent of the firm’s business to health food stores, co-ops, supermarkets and restaurants, including ski areas and resort towns in western Massachusetts and Vermont as well.

The other 20 percent is retail, from its cozy cafe at 18 Curran Lane adjacent to The Shirt Factory in the east end of Glens Falls. Funiciello moved there five years ago, from a Route 9 strip plaza just north of Exit 17 in Moreau.

Now everything is under one roof. Previously, Rock Hill also had a café on Exchange Street in Glens Falls, in addition to the Moreau bakehouse.

The Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) announces its 2025 Land Campaign, a $9 million fundraising campaign to permanently protect more than 1,200 acres of land that protects Lake George.

The Campaign includes the protection of 517 acres of Pilot Knob Mountain and more than 700 acres in Bolton. Together, these forested lands have 2.8 miles of streams and more than 26 acres of wetlands that are critical to maintaining Lake George’s exceptional water quality.

The LGLC is under contract to purchase 517 acres of Pilot Knob Mountain, including its 2,159-foot summit, and 1.6 miles of streams. The land is close to the LGLC’s Schumann Preserve at Pilot Knob, and sits just south of Buck Mountain, sharing more than 1.6 miles of its border with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Wild Forest. Because of its proximity to NYSDEC’s protected lands, this part of Pilot Knob is often mistakenly believed to be already protected; in fact, it is one of the largest privately-owned properties in the south basin and is zoned for development of up to 60 buildings.

LGLC Executive Director Mike Horn said, “We are grateful to the landowners of Pilot Knob Mountain for being good stewards of this land for many decades, and for working with the LGLC to keep it protected, forever.”