By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
The Pepper Turkey Farm along Route 9 in Wilton was a landmark business in northern New York until it suddenly ceased operation on a Friday night in 1971 as they geared up for the Christmas rush.
“The famous Don Pepper Farm is dead,” a recorded voice told people who thereafter phoned the farm. Speaking was Dorothy Pepper Bull, wife of the late Don Pepper. She …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
The Glens Falls High School football team will seek its second New York State Class B championship in three years Saturday, Nov. 24, at noon in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse.
They’ll face perhaps their stiffest challenge yet. Opponent Batavia is undefeated (12-0) and features record-shattering senior running back Ray Leach, who ran for eight touchdowns and 474 yards in Batavia’s 54-49 semi-final win …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
An effort has begun to turn Matt Rozell’s book A Train Near Mageburg into a documentary that aims to air in 2020 on PBS.
The story seems made for film: In April 1945 in the closing days of World War II, American soldiers chasing German forces come upon a train abandoned on its way to a concentration camp. Trapped inside, left to perish, are …
Read More »Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Sometimes a concert is about so much more than just the music.
Skidmore College’s second concert in its celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial this year was such an event — music, yes, and edifying at that — but the wallop this concert punched had everything to do with a series of connections greater than any one of its parts.
From nearly the get-go, the …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
The Glens Falls football team advanced to the Class B state regional finals with a rainy, windy, 21-7 win over Beekmantown last Friday night in Clifton Park.
The 9-2 Indians — winners of five straight games and three straight Section II championships — play Marlboro (10-1) of Section IX on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m. at Middletown High School’s Faller Field.
Marlboro beat …
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