By Jennifer Farnsworth
It’s a little over a month since two couples came together to open up the Fitness Hangar in Queensbury.
Michael and Meghan Howard, along with friends Earl and Jenny Canale, teamed up to create a gym that focuses on small-group fitness instruction, private training and education on proper nutrition.
The 4,000-square-foot spaces is located at 52 Main St. in Queensbury, just a half mile off of Northway Exit 18.
By Jill Nagy
In a short period of time, Cassandra Chiaravalle-Randall and Michael Latham transformed the former Grandma’s Back Porch restaurant into Christine’s at 3017 Lakeshore Drive, about half a mile from Lake George Village.
It opened over Memorial Day weekend.
“I’m really proud of how quickly we did get in there,” Chiaravalle-Randall said.
The walls went from several shades of green to a burgundy red. Bathrooms were painted and wall papered. A new service bar was added and new lights went up on the deck.
Glens Falls Hospital has undergone a major expansion in surgical services for the region, including significant growth of Surgical Specialists of Glens Falls Hospital, as well as an additional physician practice location and two new surgical suites within the existing hospital.
Dr. Gregory Tillou was the first surgeon to join Surgical Specialists of Glens Falls Hospital. He has extensive experience in general surgery and robotic surgery, and is currently seeing patients in the lower level of the Pruyn Pavilion of Glens Falls Hospital.
He will be joining together with five general surgeons from the privately-owned, Glens Falls-based practice, Baywood Surgical Associates, who will also become employed providers of Glens Falls Hospital.
By Rose Miller
As the first wave of this generation begins reaching 55 in 2001 and heads toward retirement, the workforce could lose substantial numbers of experienced workers from all walks of life.
Most boomers have neither the inclination nor the financial means for early retirement. According to a recent study, 80 percent of those born between 1948 and 1965 expect to work past age 65. Compare that with the roughly 10 percent of the over-65 group who held jobs in 1998. In other words, they will become “boomerangs”.
A capacity crowd turned out on July 2 at Six Flags Great Escape Lodge in Queensbury for the EDC Warren County annual luncheon that featured a keynote speech by Dr. John E. Kelly III, IBM senior vice president
A new generation of “smart” quantum computers that think for themselves is about to replace classical computers, which could eventually make programming obsolete.
In an address dubbed “The Era of Cognitive Computing and Artificial Intelligence,” Kelly said technology is advancing at such a rate that its impact around the globe will be more profound.
Business partners Sacha Cleavland and Andrew Lewis are making a name for themselves in an industry that most people might shy away from.
Between their cleaning service, Hogwash, and their newly established port-a-potty business, Party Pooperz, the duo is helping the North Country stay clean.
“We recently started Party Pooperz as we found there was a need for such a service,” said Cleavland.
She said their approach to Party Pooperz is similar to Hogwash in that they want to make the experience unique and different.
New York is now home to 1,005 craft beverage manufacturers operating in 60 counties across the state.
Since the first Beer, Wine Spirits and Cider Summit in 2012, the number of businesses producing craft beverages has more than doubled, while the number of farm-based manufacturers has increased by over 150 percent, state officials said.
New York now ranks in the top five states in the U.S. for its number of craft beverage producers in every category. The state ranks first in U.S. for the number of hard cider producers, second in craft distillers, third in breweries, and fourth in the country for the total number of wineries officials said.
The Hyde Museum and the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce has formed a joint networking and team-building event .
Officials said at a recent ARCC NextGen Committee meeting, the group tried to think of events to engage members.
They decided to participate in the museum’s Art Battle, slated for 6 p.m. Thursday, July 19, at the 161 Warren St. museum. This year they will challenge teams to an evening of creativity, and resourcefulness, as each is tasked with creating a work of art out of recyclable products from JUST Water.
EDC Warren County President Ed Bartholomew announced that two qualifying census tracts within Warren County were nominated by the governor’s office to be included within the tax program known as Federal Opportunity Zones (FOZ) which was part of the US Tax Reform Act of 2017.
EDC prepared materials required for nomination on behalf of the city of Glens Falls and the town of Johnsburg.
The purpose of the FOZ program is to provide an added mechanism to encourage private investment into economically distressed areas through the use of tax incentives, he said.
Bartholomew said one of the key advantages of the FOZ opportunity zones program is the ability of investors who make investments within these respective zones to have capital gain taxes eliminated if the investment is maintained for a minimum ten years. If the investment is maintained less than 10 years the capital gain is prorated.
By Maureen Werther
Workers at West Mountain are busy replacing a chairlift dating back to 1968 with a new “quad” chair that will service the face of the mountain.
According to the mountain’s co-owner and onsite operator, Spencer Montgomery, crews are in the process of dismantling the old chair, which he said will take approximately two weeks to complete. Once that phase of the work is over, the new chairlift will be installed and operational in time for the upcoming 2018-2019 skiing and snowboarding season.
The new chairlift will be located in closer proximity to the existing chairlift that services the summit. By re-positioning it, skiers and riders will all be able to feed into one set of corrals, have their tickets checked and decide which of the two lifts they want to take, he said.