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Our December 8 issue

Huge, 3-Section issue! Irongate center’s 50th anniversary. Waldo & Ruth Ross left us millions. Saw ‘Hamilton’ in NYC. Lake George real estate still sizzling. Sutton’s open Farmstead Flatbread. Model Train show moves from GF to SGF, Chase Building. Council tries team approach in Glens Falls. Y-Knot welcomes new ‘Sonar’ boat. Washington County Small Biz honorees. Mill Pond bridge reopened in Horicon. Winter is here and so are the events!…page after …

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Abe Wing & GF school: 3-year tuition deal with rising rate

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

A new contract between the Glens Falls and Abraham Wing school districts will raise tuition for Abe Wing students to more than $10,000 in 2019-20.

Abe Wing — an independent school with grades kindergarten to sixth in the east end of Glens Falls — currently pays $9,198 annually for each of its 107 students who attend Glens Falls for grades 7-12, said Glens Falls …

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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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