Glens Falls: Queensbury Hotel expansion
The Queensbury Hotel can move forward with its plans for ballroom expansion, the Post-Star is reporting this morning. The 5,200 square foot ballroom will allow the hotel at the corner of Ridge and Maple streets in Glens Falls to host 400 plated dinners or 700 people during a cocktail hour. Larger wedding and conferences or trade shows are now possible, the story says.
Glens Falls: Pot dispensary tabled again
Also in the Post-Star: The marijuana dispensary proposed for the small building at 56 Glen Street in Glens Falls was tabled by the city’s planning board again. The discussion will continue after the city decides if it will allow marijuana retail sales at all. Under the law that legalized adult use of marijuana, each municipality may decide whether pot sales are allowed.
Derby winner was drugged, Baffert banned from Churchill Downs
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit was drugged on race day, a second test of the horse’s blood revealed, and horse racing hall-of-fame trainer Bob Baffert is banned from Churchill Downs, the home of the derby, for two years, the Times-Union is reporting. Unsettled at this point: will the horse will be stripped of the win? Baffert has already been banned permanently from New York Horse Racing, and Kentucky reserves the right to do the same. He has been pinged for drug violations five times in 13 months, the story says.
Saranac Lake: Fire-damaged hotel seeks more investors
The high-end Saranac Waterfront Lodge is looking for more investors, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting. Fire closed the Saranac Lake hotel on Flower Lake earlier this year and cost the three current investors more money than expected, so they have enlisted Berkadia Advisor to offer shares to investors.
Schodack: Amazon's giant warehouse distribution center
Video monitors tell workers in the Amazon fulfillment center in Schodack if they are too close to one another while they are filling boxes to ship throughout the area, a story in the Times-Union says. The massive warehouse (20 football fields large) is high-tech, quiet, and as human-free as possible, the story says. Since Amazon has a higher rate of injury than Walmart, the story says, the reporter’s tour guides pointed out all of the safety features, and cameras watch all the action, the story says.