1980 • Our 41st Year! • 2021 PRST STD U.S Postage Paid Glens Falls, N.Y. Summer plan: Fireworks & more º 3 PERMIT NO. 172 Next week: Women in Biz • Siplon º 5 Free © Copyright 2021 The Chronicle Print circulation 18,000 Thousands more online Subscribe to free digital! glensfallschronicle.com Northern New York’s Leading Newspaper • Down to earth and growing • Vol. 41, No. 1,886 • March 18-24, 2021 Phone: 518-792-1126 Chronicle photo/Mark Frost The Glens Falls Business Improvement Chris District has this rendering of a possible park even as Chris Patten Patten still aims to build apts. at the corner of Glen persists and Bay Streets. By Cathy DeDe Chronicle Managing Editor Despite opposition including from Mayor Dan Hall, Chris Patten is holding firmto his plan to buy and develop the wedge of current green space he is under contract to buy from 333 Glen at the intersection of Glen and Bay Chronicle photo/Mark Frost Streets. Calls parking Now he easement Fitzy the envisions building 43 demand apartments, unfair; says Drops his mixed-use development plan, with no mixed it forced him barber use. He told The to eliminate will seek OK for 43-apartment building Chronicle green space. even as Glens Falls eyes park by eminent domain he plans to of Fort submit “fully comprehensive, fully conform- ing plans that will meet all ing. Mr. Patten said the constraints GC-1 [General Commercial-1] He says it “forced me to re- also led him to make the project Edward requirements” in time to make scind the offer giving the City all-residential, without first-floor the agenda of the next Planning 44 percent of the property to commercial or retail. By Mark Frost Board meeting on Tuesday, April use as a park, which I had also He said he will “come forward Chronicle Editor 6. offered to build myself. Now I with my strongest approach “Fitzy” Fitzsimmons grew Mr. Patten terms “unattain- will have to use the whole lot, in that conforms to all the require- up on Third Street in Glens able” the Planning Board’s call order to contain the parking on ments, meets green space, storm Falls, gradu- that he obtain an easement from the site.” He notes that the front water, parking requirements — ated from St. Turns 333 Glen to guarantee parking tip of the lot, closest to the Civil and the building will be beauti- Mary’s Acade- spots in the garage adjacent to War monument, is already City ful. It will still mimic the old my and fondly 80, goes the Travelers Insurance build- property. Please turn to page 4 recalls the heyday when to work; downtown activism. It is past time that CB Sports used Salem sidewalks stories Wash. County Dems: U.S. Senators dispose of this on Thursday archaic and fundamentally un- shirt factory in 1980s Abolish the filibuster nights filled to tell democratic device and get to the The Washington County Mark, with “people work the American people sent Democratic Committee said in a For what it’s worth, the factory going out to meet people.” them to Washington to do. press release it “supports For- in Salem was used by CB Sports But Fitzy, given name Harold “The filibuster is a procedural mer President Barack Obama, to manufacture — yes, actually Patrick, is wholly Fort Edward wall that allows the minority a growing number of Senators, produce — ski clothing in the now. “I came down here in ’62 party to block legislation from and millions of Americans who 80’s. Mainly parkas, I believe. and been here ever since. It’s my advancing in the Senate...It does are calling for an end to the fili- Everybody had one, did you? 59th year,” says the proprietor of not foster helpful debate nor buster, a relic of anti-progressive Please turn to page 15 — Paul Cordes Please turn to page 8 Independent Living for Active Seniors! OPEN #home THE FOR #goals Dine In or Take Out Lynn Wadleigh Real Estate Salesperson OPEN DAILY! SEASON!See Our Ad On Page 5 TIME BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER 518-260-2222 365 Canada St., Lake George GARDEN Office: 518-793-4488 518-363-6858 or glenhiland.com (518) 761-1150 652 Quaker Rd., Queensbury • (518) 793-8555 178 Glen Street, Glens Falls & SON INC. RELLI Assisted Living at WANT TO KNOW THE IGNO Less than 1 Hour Away, The Glen! VALUE OF YOUR HOME? 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If you can believe what the doc- tors are saying, we’re hoping by July to • Never have to take your teeth out, or have them fall out again be able to have large gatherings, with • The procedure is done in one day under sedation masks.” BEFORE AFTER • Teeth do not come out or move like dentures Mr. Blais expects the Festival Commons • A great option for patients who have been told in the past at Charles R.