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GF school in flux: 6 top administration jobs are open or shifting

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Glens Falls School District has six top positions in flux: Superintendent of Schools, Assistant Superintendent, Athletic Director, High School Principal, High School Assistant Principal and Middle School Assistant Principal.

They think they’re found the new superintendent.

“We hope to introduce her at our April 11 Board meeting,” its president Timothy Graham tells The Chronicle. He said the district is awaiting confirmation of the contract.…

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Bob Liebig, 94, started Utopia biz at age of 70

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

I made it over to Hartford Sunday for the celebration at the firehouse of Bob Liebig’s 94th birthday. Buffet lunch and many well-wishers included Hartford Town Supervisor Dana Haff and Fort Ann Town Supervisor Sam Hall.

Bob and his wife Barbara live in Hartford and operate Utopia Enterprises, a precast concrete business that Bob launched at the age of 70 after his prior business partner …

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Brayden Dock, 15, vies at Augusta Sunday on Golf TV

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Glens Falls High School sophomore golf standout Brayden Dock, 15, will compete for the second straight time in the Drive, Chip, and Putt National Finals Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters.

The Golf Channel will have live coverage starting at 8 a.m. Brayden’s group is expected to play until around 9:30 a.m.

Brayden told The Chronicle, via text, “Preparing for …

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Golf time, with Patrick Turley

Editor’s note: Patrick Turley is back home — his father was Leo Turley, the late long-time Queensbury Hotel general manager — after a golf career in which he was a club and teaching pro and a career caddie in major tournaments. Now he’s at Sunnyside Par 3 in Queensbury, “where fun and jr. golf reign supreme.” He approached The Chronicle with this debut effort.

By Patrick Turley, Chronicle Freelance

HELLO, …

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March 2021, he kayaked length of Lake George, coping with ice

By Bob Weinman, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: In 2021, Bob Weinman of Queensbury set out to kayak the length of Lake George in every month of the year. This is the third dispatch in a monthly 12-part series.

Paddled it. Skied it. Today — in March 2021 — I was going to bike the length of Lake George.

Inspired by photos of folks fat-biking frozen lakes in …

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