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Put Taylor Swift on the $100!

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

The Obama administration intends to put a woman’s face on the front of the $10 bill, but I say they’re thinking too meekly and 10 times too cheaply.

Nor should they limit the currency candidates to women who have passed into history.

Americans love the new, not the old — and this is the chance to get young people especially to look at money in …

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Our November 25 issue

Next Glens Falls Mayor?. Happy Thanksgiving! Put Taylor Swift on $100 bill. Seeking info on “Fire on Black Mountain” 1871. Rents at 14 Hudson to range from $1,150 to $2,075/month. Thunder home for Thanksgiving eve game. South Glens Falls Schools: $57.8-million capital project will go to vote. Northshire enters Ray O’Connor’s book for Pulitzer Prize. Walking New York City’s High Line. Looking for shows, concerts, etc.? The Chronicle has the

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Our November 19 issue

Hannah Dineen in Paris, sees terrorism close-up. Fort Ann boys soccer wins first state title. Faces of the new Glens Falls. Comedy scores at the Civic Center. Open Arms moves back to 471 Glen Street. Bus biz booms. Free Thanksgiving dinners in Argyle and Glens Falls. Glens Falls city employees donate $880, buy headstone for 31-year colleague. Peppermill Restaurant celebrates 25 years. Looking for shows, concerts, etc.? The Chronicle has

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Tales of a Sierra Leone survivor

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Joseph Kaifala is a survivor, a gentle-voiced young man who grew up in Sierra Leone in east Africa amid what he calls the “madness” of a 10-year civil war, from the early 1990s to 2002.

It saw boys his age — some as young as six or seven years old — conscripted as child soldiers who became simultaneously perpetrators and victims of unspeakable violence, …

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Momentous show for GF Community Theatre’s 80th

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Community Theatre’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd — it doesn’t just hit you in the gut, it reaches deep into the diaphragm to where you breathe. That is, if you remember to keep breathing through what is a breathtaking show.

Myself, I felt like I’d been rolled and battered in a burlap sack filled with dirt, that this was …

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