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GF Symphony’s celebrity baton contest hits a fever ‘pitch’

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Things are getting more — heated? interesting? — than usual for this year’s fourth annual Conductor Contest by the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra, in anticipation of the annual Holiday Concert coming on Sunday, Dec. 4 (at 4 p.m. at the Glens Falls High School; details below).

Three local celebrities — Tori Riley of the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce, Brian Petrovek of the Adirondack …

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Glens Falls wins NYS Class B football title, 47-39, over Chenango Forks

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The Glens Falls High School football team is New York State’s Class B champion after a heart-stopping 47-39 win over powerhouse Chenango Forks in Syracuse’s Carrier Dome on Saturday, Nov. 26.

The 13-0 Indians won Glens Falls’s first state title doing what they have done all season: Using their incredible team speed and skill, and a gritty Glens Falls-borne toughness, to get the job …

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Glens Falls QB Joseph Girard III: ‘I’m definitely playing football for 2 more years’

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Sophomore Joseph Girard III, who quarterbacked Glens Falls High School’s state championship football team, is a top Division I college basketball prospect, but “I’m definitely playing football for two more years,” he said when we asked him Monday before Glens Falls basketball practice.

Girard, who turned 16 on Nov. 27, has already received three full-ride Division I scholarship offers — from UAlbany, High Point …

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Our December 1 issue

Glens Falls Wins Title – Parade Friday! Cambridge football earns NYS Class D title. Holiday events hit peak! Brantley Gilbert show, Feb. 16 at Civic Center nearly sold out. Sandra’s ‘heritage’ turkey. Abe Wing and GF school 3-year tuition deal. New Skete nuns on Rachael Ray; to air Dec. 8. GF QB Joseph Girard III plans 2 more years of football. LG Forum as a convention center? 28th Christmas in …

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Our November 23 issue

Happy Thanksgiving! Max in India. Glens Falls seeks state title in the Carrier Dome on Saturday. St. Mary’s pushes for St. Alphonsus sales $$$ to build parish center. Schermerhorn bid to run airport. Glens Falls 9th grader Sean Pettis in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. JUST Water appears on ‘Keeping up with Kardashians’ show. Winter is coming and so are the events!…page after page of shows, concerts and things to do. …

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