The Charles R. Wood Foundation is currently accepting grant applications from IRS approved 501(c)3 organizations whose projects or programs assist children, healthcare or the arts in the Lake George Region and surrounding areas. Eligible applicants can visit the website www.charlesrwoodfoundation.com...
Thunder Hockey Team Comes Under Local Ownership; Civic Center Coalition Buys Team
The Adirondack Civic Center Coalition Inc. will purchase the ECHL Adirondack Thunder from the Calgary Flames in a deal that ensures continued operation of professional hockey in Glens Falls.
The ECHL board of governors unanimously approved the sale in February, providing coalition representatives with a seat on the ECHL board.
The purchase price was not disclosed, but the coalition is launching a “Keep Hockey Here” fundraising campaign to solicit the additional funds necessary for a successful team ownership. It has already raised $200,000 of the $1 million campaign goal, including contributions from coalition members.
The coalition said any profits generated by the team will be used in support of the team and the Civic Center. None of the Coalition members or hockey board of managers will receive any profits.
“Owning the Adirondack Thunder allows us to control our own destiny and focus on the long-term success of hockey and the Civic Center,” Daniel J. Burke, president of the coalition, said on Feb. 28. “Since the Adirondack Red Wings left in 1999, the community has not had a long-term commitment from a professional hockey organization. That changes today.”
Business And Government Leaders Meet To Discuss Forming A Sports Tourism Alliance
By Maureen WertherA group of local officials, business leaders, venue owners and stakeholders are teaming up with the Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce's Convention and Visitors' Bureau to talk about establishing the Warren County region as a year-round destination...
Speakers To Discuss Collaborative Economic Development Efforts At EDC Breakfast Event
EDC Warren County will highlight collaboration between Warren County and the Capital Region that can strengthen economic opportunities at a breakfast program on Wednesday, March 22 at The Queensbury Hotel, 88 Ridge St., Glens Falls. Registration and networking will begin at...
GlobalFoundries To Expand At Its Malta Plant, Add New Chip Manufacturing Plant In China
GlobalFoundries announced in February plans to expand its global manufacturing footprint in response to growing customer demand for its comprehensive and differentiated technology portfolio.
The company is investing in its existing leading-edge fabs in the United States, including the Fab 8 plant in Malta, and Germany, expanding its footprint in China with a fab in Chengdu, and adding capacity for mainstream technologies in Singapore.
“We continue to invest in capacity and technology to meet the needs of our worldwide customer base,” said company CEO Sanjay Jha. “We are seeing strong demand for both our mainstream and advanced technologies, from our world-class RF-SOI platform for connected devices to our FD-SOI and FinFET roadmap at the leading edge. These new investments will allow us to expand our existing fabs while growing our presence in China through a partnership in Chengdu.”
In the United States, GlobalFoundries plans to expand 14nm FinFET capacity by an additional 20 percent at its Fab 8 facility in Malta, with the new production capabilities to come online in the beginning of 2018.
Dunkin’ Donuts Opens New Store In Granville, Employing Approximately 25 Crew Members
Dunkin' Donuts has opened a new restaurant in Granville at 75 Quaker St.The new restaurant is open from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday and employs approximately 25 crew members. It offers free Wi-Fi and includes sustainable features...
LARAC Public Arts Program To Feature Adirondack Chairs Designed By Local Artists
The Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council's Lapham Gallery, 7 Lapham Place in Glens Falls, is bringing back the public arts project Have a Seat in Glens Falls. LARAC is inviting artists to decorate an Adirondack chair to be displayed throughout...
Chamber’s Women In Business Committee To Sponsor Blood Drive For American Red Cross
The Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Committee is sponsoring its second American Red Cross Blood Drive at the Fort William Henry Hotel & Conference Center on Monday, March 27.. Appointments are available from 12:30 to 6 p.m. The...
2017 The Hyde Exhibitions Include Abstract, Contemporary, Watercolor And Photography
Officials at the Hyde Museum are looking for a strong 2017, with an exhibition schedule that includes one of the country’s greatest living watercolorists, an innovative contemporary artist, the most influential abstract artist of the postwar era, the annual Juried High School Show, and a massive exhibition of American folk art.
Featured exhibits this year include:
• Lorna Bieber: Forces of Nature, through May 14
The photo murals and montages of Bieber will be featured in the Hoopes Gallery. The artist manipulates stock media photography in scale and medium, reinterpreting the natural world, and evoking a sense of collective memory. Her works re-create nature as an idyllic and poetic world of familiar images. Bieber was trained as a painter, but turned her attention to photography while working for magazines. Her subject matter includes natural elements such as trees, flowers, and animals, as well as figurative subjects, sometimes with references to art history.
• Marking the Moment: The Art of Allen Blagden, Feb. 12 to April 16.
Blagden is a distinguished contemporary realist with longtime ties to the Adirondacks. He is well known for his paintings of animals, birds, landscapes, and people in the style of Winslow. His love of wildlife and birds stems from an internship illustrating for Serengeti National Park in Kenya, working for the Department of Ornithology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and summers spent in the Adirondacks.
Marking the Moment features 62 works by Blagden and is curated by Caroline Welsh, art historian and director emerita of the Adirondack Museum.
• The Juried High School Show, May 6 to May 28.
Family Makes $1 Million Donation Toward The Upgrading Of Local Hospital Birthing Unit
In her 30-plus years living in Glens Falls, the late Joyce Stock served as a nurse at Glens Falls Hospital, built a popular restaurant and raised three sons who share her philanthropic generosity.
In January, her eldest son, Bill, returned to Glens Falls to honor his mother’s memory and with one of the largest philanthropic gifts in Glens Falls Hospital history in the form of a $1 million donation from the Bill and Joanne Stock Foundation.
The money will go toward a $5 million renovation project underway at The Snuggery family-centered birthing unit at the hospital.
The hospital announced that the birthing unit will now be known as The Joyce Stock Snuggery at Glens Falls Hospital.