David Blow

Queensbury, Randolph Center

Contributor at The Post-Star

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Articles

Journalism is thriving at VTSU Castleton and it makes me proud

1 month ago | castletonspartan.com | David Blow |Gabby Blanchard |Aspen Wood |Isiah Hughes

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the back of the TV studio in the Communications Department and smiling. I was there for the weekly Castleton Spartan newspaper meeting, and I was smiling because there were 18 students in there with me. Again, this was a meeting of the school newspaper and of the 18 students there, only four were receiving course credit for being there.
Drawings of Little Lulu help explain who the writer is

Aug 20, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

I’ve never been one to think a lot about genetics and why I am how I am. But every now and then, in discussions with close relatives, details come out that make me go, “Ah, makes sense!”If you’ve read my columns over the last 30-plus years, you’ve been introduced to my now almost 83-year-old mom, Lucille. You’ve seen and heard about the former kindergarten teacher snowshoeing, sledding on old runner sleds and eagerly welcoming family on holidays.
P.J. Ferguson: Right where he belongs

Jul 25, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

Whitehall graduate P.J. Ferguson went to Nashville in November 2020 – during the heat of COVID – to chase his musical dreams. The now 28-year-old was basically broke, and the sparse, early gigs he did land were mostly solo and often playing “to tables and chairs.”He had auditioned at the iconic Tootsie’s when he arrived, but the owners and booking agents weren’t even there – just him and the house band, so he didn’t expect much from it.
Our writer, EQX anchor agree that Dead at the Sphere may be better than the hype

Jul 4, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

It’s a spectacle from the outside – and honestly, spectacle is probably not doing it justice. One minute it’s a huge yellow emoji poking up from the asphalt and winking at you and a second later it’s a blob of lava lamp colors swirling above the Las Vegas skyline. Get inside the Las Vegas Sphere, however, and the spectacle meter gets cranked up to 11 (I hope that Spinal Tap reference landed).
Golf carts for campgrounds, hotel, motel, lake house patrons

Jun 27, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

There’s a burgeoning golf cart culture these days, especially around lakes and campgrounds, and Chris Kelley and his son, Ozzie Hughes, are trying to take advantage of it from what had been a long-vacant storefront on Route 149 in Queensbury. Kelley on Monday was just taking delivery of a new line of lower-cost Denago models that offer buyers lots of options including 9-inch video screens and bumping sound systems, at prices lower than the higher-end models.
Green Goblin car owner surprises local teen hometown hero

May 4, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

You see a lot of interesting stuff on the Glens Falls Community Helps Facebook page, but on April 25, Queensbury resident Diane Maille threw out a long shot request. “Can anyone help me get in contact with the man that drives the Green Goblin car? I know this is a strange request so if it goes unanswered, I understand. My son has Asperger’s and gets so excited when he sees that car and just wants his picture taken with it.
Farewell to doctors Foote: Son in longtime father-son practice closes after 40 years

Apr 16, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

For the past eight decades, people throughout the area have been able to go see Dr. Foote when they didn’t feel well. It started in the 1950s in Indian Lake with Dr. Joseph Foote, a country doctor who practiced medicine before computers, who routinely made house calls and who sometimes would accept a shotgun – or even a live turkey – as payment for services rendered.
North Country residents face March madness of their own with snow storm

Mar 24, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

As the NCAA men’s tournament played out on area TV screens, Glens Falls area residents were enduring a little winter March Madness of their own on Saturday – digging out from over a foot of fresh snow. Driving through the area, as WCKM DJ Dan Miner was ironically using the airwaves to tout the annual boat show at The Dome, hundreds of plows, snowblowers and shovels were seen being put to use on every street.
Keeping Smokey’s name alive through songs and scholarships

Mar 13, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

Smokey Greene was a local icon in the country music and bluegrass scene for eight decades before he passed away last year at 93. And thanks to an effort by his sons, friends and the Strand Theater, his legacy will be living on in the form of music scholarships through Schuylerville Central School for students pursuing music as a career.
Winter Sports column: For John Jacobs, World Pro Ski Tour a labor of love

Mar 2, 2024 | poststar.com | David Blow

I got a text recently from John Jacobs commenting on a recent column detailing winter woes around here. Jacobs, who had an Olympian father and whose family started Queensbury’s Inside Edge and Reliable Racing, said he just got back from Bear Valley, California for the second stop of the World Pro Ski Tour that he helped re-kindle in 2017. “There is no lack of snow in the Sierras,” he wrote.