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Start Spreading the News: Glens Falls Symphony Presents July 4th Summer Pops Concert “New York, New York”

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

The Glens Falls Symphony presents its 11th annual Summer Pops Concert “New York, New York” on Monday, July 4, in Crandall Park, Glens Falls, and again on Thursday, July 21, in Shepard Park, Lake George Village. Guest narrators for the July 4th concert will be U.S. Congressman Chris Gibson, State Senator Betty Little, and Hyde Collection Executive Director David Setford. The concert borrows its theme from the Hyde Collection’s current exhibit, “New York, New York! The 20th Century.”

The repertoire will include music from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” the classic Broadway show “Guys and Dolls,” and John William’s “Empire Strikes Back.” The traditional “Armed Forces Salute” will be introduced by Congressman Gibson. Each concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and concludes with fireworks. At the July 4th Crandall Park concert, beginning at 5 p.m. there will be activities for children presented by Arts in the Public Eye as well as food and refreshment vendors offering barbecued favorites, pizza, kettle corn, fried bread dough, lemonade and more.

“Our Summer Pops concerts have become a popular part of the region’s summer events,” said Charles Peltz, Glens Falls Symphony music director. “Thousands of people gather at either of two beautiful settings where they join friends and family for these special summer evening concerts. The Symphony is very thankful to the community sponsors that make these performances possible, including the exciting touch of a post-concert fireworks display.”

Sponsors confirmed for the 2011 concerts are the Glens Falls Hospital, the City of Glens Falls, the Village and Town of Lake George, the Glens Falls Rotary Club and the Glens Falls Kiwanis Club plus an anonymous donor.

“This is an enormous undertaking for the orchestra and our community,” said Robert Rosoff, Symphony executive director. “Our modest budget of more than $24,000 must cover costs for musicians, sound technicians and equipment, production, promotion and much more. We are enormously grateful to our communities, businesses, service organizations and donors for the support needed to put on this show for area residents and visitors.” As in the past, board members and friends of the Symphony will pass through the crowd soliciting free will donations to “keep the music playing”.

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Thomas J. Murphy Promoted to Bank President at Glens Falls National

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Tom Murphy

Thomas L. Hoy, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Arrow Financial Corporation (Arrow), announced the appointment of Thomas J. Murphy, CPA, as Senior Executive Vice President of Arrow and President and a member of the Board of Directors of Arrow’s lead subsidiary bank, Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company (GFNB) effective July 1, 2011. He also announced the appointment of Terry R. Goodemote, CPA as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Arrow and Senior Executive Vice President of GFNB.  Mr. Hoy, currently President of GFNB, will continue as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of  GFNB, as well as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Arrow.

Mr. Murphy joined GFNB in 2004 as Vice President and Trust Officer and Manager of the Personal Trust Department. In 2008 he was promoted to Senior Vice President and in 2010 was promoted to Senior Trust Officer. In addition to these GFNB Trust Department duties, in 2008, he was named Assistant Corporate Secretary and Assistant Cashier of GFNB and in 2009, he was promoted to Corporate Secretary and Cashier of GFNB.  In 2008, he was named Assistant Corporate Secretary of Arrow and promoted to Corporate Secretary of Arrow in 2009.

Mr. Murphy is a member of the Executive Committee and the Trust and Estate Tax Committee of New York Bankers Association (NYBA). He is a member and past President of the Estate Planning Council of Eastern New York, Inc., a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA).

Mr. Murphy serves on the Board of Directors and is immediate past President of the Charles R. Wood Theater, Inc. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation, and is a charter member of the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation Planned Giving Council. Mr. Murphy is a member and a past President of the Kiwanis Club of Glens Falls and the Glens Falls Chapter of the Siena College Alumni Association. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce (ARCC) and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Tri-Counties, Inc. (Prospect School) and served as Division Chairman of Tri-County United Way Campaigns.

Terry Goodemote

Mr. Murphy is a faculty member of the NYBA Trust & Estate Tax School and seminar presenter for the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation Planned Giving Council. He has taught courses at Adirondack Community College and made numerous presentations to professional and community organizations on tax and financial planning topics.

Mr. Murphy earned his BBA Degree in accounting, magna cum laude, from Siena College in 1980 and became a NYS Certified Public Accountant in 1983. A native of Buffalo, NY, Tom and his wife Linda live in Queensbury, NY.

Mr. Goodemote joined GFNB in 1992 as a Finance Officer and was promoted to Vice President in 2000. During 2005, Mr. Goodemote became Senior Vice President and head of the Accounting Division. In 2007, he was appointed to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GFNB and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Arrow. Mr. Goodemote was promoted to Executive Vice President of GFNB in 2008.

Mr. Goodemote is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of CPA’s. He is a past President of the Kiwanis Club of Glens Falls, and is on the Board of the Glens Falls Kiwanis Foundation, a member and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Queensbury United Methodist Church, and has been active as a youth coach for many years. Mr. Goodemote has also been an active leader in various positions with Twin Rivers Council Boy Scouts of America, and is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Twin Rivers Council and Chairman of the Council’s Wakpominee Golf Classic. He is a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award, the highest volunteer award given by the Council for service to youth.

Mr. Goodemote graduated cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany in 1985, and is currently enrolled in the American Bankers Association Graduate School of Banking at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.  He is also a graduate of the ARCC Community Leadership Program.

Mr. Goodemote is a native of Broadalbin, New York and resides with his wife Tracy in Queensbury, NY.

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Jerry Jenkins to Receive Adirondack Museum Award

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Jerry Jenkins, recipient of the 2011 Harold K. Hochschild Award

The Board of Trustees of the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York is pleased to announce the selection of Jerry Jenkins as the recipient of the 2011 Harold K. Hochschild Award.

The Harold K. Hochschild Award is dedicated to the memory of the museum’s founder, whose passion for the Adirondacks, its people, and environment inspired the creation of the Adirondack Museum.  Since 1990 the museum has presented the award to a wide range of intellectual and community leaders throughout the Adirondack Park, highlighting their contributions to the region’s culture and quality of life.

The Adirondack Museum will formally present Jerry Jenkins with the Harold K. Hochschild Award on August 4, 2011.

Jerry Jenkins is an ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Adirondack Program (WCS).  An accomplished botanist, naturalist and geographer, he has almost forty years of field experience working in the Northern Forest. Over the course of his career, his work has included conducting biological inventories for The Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, surveying rare plant occurrences for the State of Vermont, chronicling the environmental history of acid rain with the Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation, and understanding and interpreting historical changes to boreal lowland areas in the Adirondacks with WCS. His enthusiasm for natural history has also led him to study plant diversity and distribution across various forest types – from the Champlain Hills to large working forest easements, and from old growth forests to high elevation alpine communities.

"Climate Change in the Adirondacks: The Path to Sustainability" by Jerry Jenkins

His most recent and notable accomplishments with the Wildlife Conservation Society are his collection of Adirondack publications. Together with Andy Keal, Jerry Jenkins co-authored The Adirondack Atlas a Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park, perhaps the most significant Adirondack book in a generation.  Some 300 pages in length, the Adirondack Atlas contains 750 maps and graphics, and represents the most comprehensive collection of regional data brought together in a single source. The park’s geology, flora and fauna are featured, as well as the history and the dynamic nature of the park’s human communities. Bill McKibben describes the atlas as a “great gift…that marks a coming of age.”

In his newest book Climate Change in the Adirondacks the Path to Sustainability, Jenkins demonstrates how climate change is already shifting the region’s culture, biology and economy, and provides a road map towards a more responsible and sustainable future.  He provides the first comprehensive look at both the impacts of, and the potential solutions to, climate change across the Adirondack region.  This compilation, along with his other regional contributions, prompted Bill McKibben to offer that “Jerry Jenkins has emerged as the information source for our mountains…and we are all in his debt.”

 

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Chazen Welcomes New Senior Director of Business Development Dave Ardman

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Dave Ardman, Senior Director of Business Development, The Chazen Companies

The Chazen Companies, a leading provider of engineering, land surveying, environmental, planning, and landscape architecture services, announced today that David B. Ardman has joined the firm as its new Senior Director of Business Development.  Mr. Ardman has 30 years of experience in a variety of business development and public relations roles.  In his new position, Mr. Ardman will be responsible for all of Chazen’s business development and marketing activities across all of its offices in the Hudson Valley region.

Prior to joining Chazen, Mr. Ardman served as Business Development Manager for Barton & Loguidice, P.C., and was instrumental in the growth of that firm’s Albany office over the last 10 years.  Before that, Mr. Ardman held several positions at the New York State Thruway Authority and the New York State Senate.

“I am very pleased to welcome David to Chazen,” said the firm’s President, Mark Kastner, P.E. “David is a talented business development professional whose knowledge of our industry and numerous relationships with business and governmental leaders throughout our service region make him uniquely qualified to lead our business development efforts.  David will play a vital role in the firm’s continued growth, and he will be a strong addition to Chazen’s senior management team.”

Mr. Ardman earned a B.A. in Communications and Mass Media from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.  He serves on the boards and committees of a number of charitable organizations and foundations, including Capital Region Center for Arts in Education, Wildwood Programs, the Engineers Week Future City Competition, and Albany Area Salvation Army.

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Welcome! 欢迎! Willkommen! Bienvenida! Adirondack Trust Company Enhances Website with New Multilingual Feature

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

The Adirondack Trust Company has taken the old adage, “That’s easy for you to say!” and made it so, with the announcement that it has enhanced its website with a new multilingual feature.  The website is now available in four languages: English, Chinese, German and Spanish.

Commenting on the new multilingual enhancement, Mr. Charles V. Wait, President noted:  “We are excited to bring this new functionality to our website as we continue to reach out to individuals who are coming to our community from worldwide locations.  With the GlobalFoundries Fab 8 project in Malta, NY and their international reach, we see this as an exciting time for our region and enables us to reach customers who currently may be abroad.  Our website offers users detailed information on all of our banking, insurance, and investment services now in four languages.  We also have a translation service available so we can effectively communicate with customers in any language.  We look forward to expanding our customer relationships and are in the process of further developing our multilingual services.”

For more information, visit the website or call:
518-584-5844 Bank
518-584-5300 Insurance
518-587-4093 At Your Call 24/7 Telephone Banking
1-800-485-7899 Toll Free

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Mondays to Look Forward to at The Adirondack Museum

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

The Adirondack Museum has your Monday nights covered, with the recent announcement of their 2011 Monday Evening Lectures in July and August.

The first evening is with Museum Chief Curator, Laura Rice’s lecture “Night Vision: The Wildlife Photography of Hobart Vosburg Roberts” on Monday, July 11. Hobart V. Roberts’ photographs, camera equipment, published articles, and awards are featured in a new exhibit at the Adirondack Museum. Rice will discuss Roberts’ work and the museum’s exhibit in an illustrated presentation.

"In Action on Twin Lake" by Hobart Roberts

The lecture series continues through July & August:

Monday, July 18: Robert Arnold’s  “Let Loose the Dogs of War: New York in the American Civil War”

Monday, July 25: Mark Bowie “s “Night Over the North Country”

Monday, August 1: Bill McKibben’s “The Most Important Number in the World: Updates on the Fight for a Stable Climate”

Monday, August 8: Robert Demarest’s “Traveling with Winslow Homer”

Monday, August 15: David Wagner’s “John James Audubon, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait and American Wildlife Art”

Monday, August 22: Elisabeth Hudnut Clarkson’s “The Lost World of Foxlair and the Valentino Summer”

The presentations will be offered at no charge to museum members; the fee for non-members is $5.00.  Visit the website for a full descriptions of the lectures or call 518-352-7311.

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Fore! Airway Meadows Golf Club will hold its Airway Cup on Saturday, July 2nd

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Airway Meadows Golf Club will hold its Airway Cup on Saturday, July 2nd with a 12:15 registration and a shotgun start to follow shortly after.  Tournament will be a Ryder Cup style format, 2-player best ball, match play.  Cost for non-members is $79.00 and includes green fees, cart, snack on the turn, BBQ picnic and prizes.

This tournament brings out the true spirit of the team and patriotism.  Golfers dress to match the team colors and often times decorate their carts in celebration of the 4th of July.  Always on Independence Day weekend Airway will keep the red, white & blue theme and plan to continue holding this Anniversary Airway Cup for many years to come.

Call the pro shop at 518-792-4144 for more information.

The registration form can be found on Airway Meadows’ website.

 

 

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Marcantonio’s Member Mania – Adirondack Wine Merchants

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

June 06, 2011

Adirondack Chamber of Commerce Membership Manager John Marcantonio takes it on the road with “Marcantonio’s Member Mania”. Today’s stop… Adirondack Wine Merchants at 278 Quaker Road in Queensbury.

See the video here: Marcantonio’s Member Mania at Adirondack Wine Merchants

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Marcantonio’s Member Mania – Spa Studio at Union Square

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

May 26, 2011

Adirondack Chamber of Commerce Membership Manager John Marcantonio takes it on the road with “Marcantonio’s Member Mania”. Today’s stop… Spa Studio at Union Square at 11 Broad Street, Glens Falls, New York.

See the video here: Marcantonio’s Member Mania at Spa Studio at Union Square

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5 Businesses Honored at Annual “Business of the Year” Awards Ceremony

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

2011 Business of the Year Awards, presented by the Adirondack Business Council of the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce. (pictured from left): Wally Hirsch, chair, Adirondack Business Council, owner, Binley Florist & Garden Center; Gail Hamel, Hamel Resources, LLC, Independent Business of the Year; Tiffany Guay and Jacob Guay, Bistro LeRoux, Rookie Business of the Year; Dr. John O’Connor, Glens Falls Animal Hospital, Professional Business of the Year; Todd Feigenbaum, Feigenbaum Cleaners, Steven M. Sutton Small Business of the Year; Larry Allen, Finch Paper, LLC, Large Business of the Year; Peter Aust, president & CEO, Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce

The Adirondack Business Council of the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce presented five Business of the Year awards to area businesses at its annual Business of the Year Awards Breakfast this morning at the Fort William Henry Resort and Conference Center in Lake George, NY.

“The selection process was very challenging as all 21 nominees are very deserving,” said Wally Hirsch, chair, Adirondack Business Council, and owner, Binley Florist & Garden Center. “Members of the Council conducted in-depth interviews with each nominee about their professional achievements as well as their contributions to the community.” This year, awards were presented to:

VIEW MORE PICTURES HERE.

Congratulations to all 21 nominees:

Professional Business of the Year
• Glens Falls Animal Hospital (award recipient)
• Gore & Laney, CPAs, PLLC
• Stanclift, Ludemann & McMorris, PC

Steven M. Sutton Small Business of the Year

• Airway Meadows Golf Club
• Askco Electric Supply
• Durett Business Management Corp.
• Feigenbaum Cleaners (award recipient)

2011 Business of the Year Awards Breakfast

• Hallwear
• Heber Associates, Inc.
• Mead Lumber Co.
• The Sports Page
• Total Entertainment

Rookie Business of the Year

• Bistro LeRoux (award recipient)
• North Country Coffee Café
• Stored Technology Solutions

Independent Business of the Year

• Express Computer Restore
• Hamel Resources, LLC (award recipient)

Large Business of the Year

Chamber President & CEO Peter Aust greets guests at the awards breakfast.

• Finch Paper, LLC (award recipient)
• North Country Janitorial, Inc.
• Rozell Industries, Inc.
• Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.

The Business of the Year Awards Breakfast was sponsored by
Rozell Industries, Inc. and Adirondack Trust Company.

Special thanks to members of the Adirondack Business
Council volunteer committee:
Wally Hirsch, Binley Florist; 2011 Chair
Erica Butto, The Spa Studio at Union Square
John Crawford, JP Crawford Associates
Joe Scanlan, KeyBank
Gail Hamel, Hamel Resources, LLC
Kurt Moser, Glens Falls National Bank
Mark Sidoti, Time Warner Cable Business Class
Nick Taylor, Jr., Taylor & Leonard Insurance
Mike Murray, Adirondack Trust Company                                                                                                                   VIEW MORE PICTURES HERE.
Kate Baker, Small Business Development Center
Elaine Swain, Country Inn & Suites

 

 

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