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NBT Wealth Management has hired Beth Hajeck and Sheila Grant who will be based in NBT’s Glens Falls Office.

Hajeck will serve as retirement plan services manager with responsibility for overseeing NBT’s retirement plan services growth and development in the Glens Falls and Capital Region area. She has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. 

Hajeck comes to NBT from Glens Falls National Bank where she served as vice president and retirement plan officer,  responsible for administration of qualified retirement plans, IRAs and investment management accounts. 

A resident of Queensbury, Hajeck is the secretary for the Glens Falls Senior Citizens Center board of directors and is a member of the Estate Planning Council of Northeastern New York.

Grant will serve as senior retirement plan services administrator with responsibility for administrating plans for customers and business clients in the Glens Falls and Capital Region area. 

She has over 20 years of experience in retirement plan services. Grant comes to NBT from Glens Falls National Bank where she served as vice president and retirement plan officer, and was responsible for administration of qualified retirement plans, IRAs and investment management accounts. 

Prior to that she was an attorney with the Goldstein Law Firm PC. Grant earned her bachelor’s degree from SUNY Plattsburgh and earned her Juris Doctor from the Albany Law School. A resident of Queensbury, Grant is a member of the Justinian Society.

The Adirondack Thunder raised $16,220 that will be donated to three local charities through its Military Appreciation Night jersey auction  during a recent game at Cool Insuring Arena.

 The Thunder donned red, white and blue American flag-themed jerseys for Military Appreciation Night, sponsored by UA Local 773 on Oct. 26. After the conclusion of the game, each game-worn jersey went into a live auction with bids coming from fans in attendance. 

The $16,220 raised was the most of any jersey auction in franchise history, team officials said

The donation will be split between the Ben Osborn Memorial Fund, Operation at Ease and the VFW Post 2475 Emergency Relief Fund. Each group will be presented with a check at a later date.

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O’Brien’s Angels, a charitable community project backed by O’Brien Insurance of Glens Falls, recently made a $2,000 donation to Glens Falls City School District to battle child hunger. 

The Adirondack Trust Co. has once again secured a 5-Star rating from BauerFinancial, a bank rating firm.

Earning a 5-Star rating indicates this bank excels in areas of capital adequacy, profitability, asset quality and much more. Earning and maintaining this top rating for 49 consecutive quarters, puts the Adirondack Trust Co. in an even higher bracket as an “exceptional performance bank”.

This title is achieved after successfully earning the top 5-Star rating for 40 consecutive quarters (ten years or longer).

BauerFinancial Inc., based in Coral Gables, Fla., has been reporting on and analyzing the performance of U.S. banks and credit unions since 1983.

The Center for Economic Growth will hold a breakfast event called Solutions for the C Suite: Glens Falls, 8-11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at SUNY Adirondack, 640 Bay Road, Queensbury.

The event is in partnership with the Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce, EDC Warren County, Glens Falls National Bank & Trust and SUNY Adirondack.

There is no cost to attend and a complimentary breakfast will be served.

The Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce & CVB is teaming up with Collette Tours to offer a trip to Rome and the Amalfi Coast in March 2019.

Included in this 10-day trip are 13 meals and an itinerary including beautiful accommodations and tours of historic sites in Rome as well as a the excavated ruins of Pompeii and a winery at the foothills of Mount Vesuvius.

Attendees will explore a Mediterranean paradise on the Bay of Naples, cruise to the island of Capri, tour a local Buffalo milk mozzarella factory and more.

Airfare and transportation to and from the airport is covered in the price.

Contact the Chamber at (518) 668–5755 or info@lakegeorgechamber.com.

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“Adirondack Archangels: Guardians of the High Peaks,” a book by Christine Bourjade and Alex Radmanovich of New Russia, and Montreal, Quebec, respectively, has been named by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group as one of the best indie books of 2018.

The Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce has transferred the Adirondack Craft Beverage Trail initiative to the Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce & CVB.

“The ARCC is a business-to-business Chamber in that we strive to partner and support regional businesses by providing programs, resources and opportunities to connect all industries in an effort to grow, succeed and thrive,” said Amanda K. Blanton, ARCC marketing and communications manager.  “While the Adirondack Craft Beverage Trail was certainly successful in promoting the growth of the craft beverage industry, we feel that the initiative is a better fit for a tourism-focused Chamber and CVB and are excited to see the program continue in the hands of the LGRCC.”

The Adirondack Trust Co. has again secured a 5-Star rating from BauerFinancial, a bank rating firm. 

A five-star rating indicates that the bank excels in areas of capital adequacy, profitability, asset quality and much more. Adirondack Trust has earned and maintained this top honor for more than 10 years, putting it in an the position as an “exceptional performance bank”. This designation is reserved for those banks securing a 5-Star rating for 10 years or longer.

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The Glens Falls Collaborative will hold its FitFest event on Saturday, Oct. 13, in Glens Falls’ City Park.

To ensure regional access to the broadest array of healthcare services available, Glens Falls Hospital announced in December that they would be selling their renal dialysis service to DCI (Dialysis Clinic, Inc.), the nation’s leading nonprofit dialysis provider.

The hospital officially transferred ownership of its outpatient renal dialysis program on Broad Street in Glens Falls to DCI on June 1, officials said. They do not expect that patients will experience any changes to their treatment schedule during this transition.

The new phone number for DCI is 518-252-0008 and the fax number is 518-252-0016.

The Adirondack Trust Co. Community Fund is accepting grant applications from eligible nonprofit charities headquartered in the Saratoga, Warren and Washington counties.

Applications will be accepted through Aug.  31.  

Grant information and application forms may be obtained from the Adirondack Trust Co. Community Fund website at www.atccf.org/nonprofits 

The fund was established in 2009 to build an endowment that acts as a perpetual source of funding for the broad array of nonprofit organizations which improve the quality of life in the community and to assist them in addressing issues of common concern. 

The Women in Business group of the Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring an American Red Cross Blood Drive on March 22 at the Holiday Inn Resort at 2223 Canada St. in Lake George.

People can sign up to donate at redcrossblood.org.

On April 21, the group will help Double H Ranch during its annual Spring Clean Up Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Interested volunteers in the group may contact Women in Business co-chairperson Toni Cunningham at tcunningham@nathealthcare.com to sign up.

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The Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce (ARCC) Leadership Adirondack class of 2018 presented a check for $13,000 to the Open Door Mission at the graduation ceremony in February at the Great Escape Lodge.