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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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …