Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Matt Rozell: The view from Normandy

By Matt Rozell, Special to The Chronicle

The final leg of our European trip to make a documentary about my book A Train to Magdeburg — the events depicted in a famous scene of Jewish survivors rescued by American soldiers, and all that transpired since I discovered the photo — took us from Germany to Normandy, France, to Omaha Beach and to the American Cemetery and Memorial located in Colleville-sur-Mer.…

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Memorial Day 2022: Parades & ceremonies return

Relieved to be back in person

‘We are excited’ to be fully back and in person, says John Strough, the Queensbury Town Supervisor and co-organizer of the Glens Falls-Queensbury Memorial Day Commemoration.

After two Covid years of cancelled, limited or virtual events to mark Memorial Day, most communities are back with their traditional Memorial Day events, honoring those members of the military who sacrificed their lives in service to our …

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Our May 26 front page

Memorial Day Issue Parades & ceremonies return. Gas tax caps save some cents. Car crashed through downtown’s hub. Islamic Center buys former GF Christian Science bldg. Valedictorians! Matt Rozell, part 3 of WW2 series. Final map: SGF gets Tonko, GF gets Stefanik in redistricting. South Glens Falls Prom pics. Twiddle, more at Memorial Meltdown, Lake George. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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At 81, she earned SUNY Adk. degree

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Staff Writer

Deanne Rehm insists there’s nothing extraordinary about her graduating from SUNY Adirondack last weekend — at age 81. Her degree is an Associates in Science, Individual Studies.

Ms. Rehm is the retired longtime Town Assessor for Queensbury, Lake George and Bolton. She was also Town Supervisor of Bolton for six years; three terms from 1997 to 2001.

“I thoroughly enjoyed being with the 20-year-olds,” …

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Matt Rozell in Germany: Found train site, full circle with Johanna

By Matthew Rozell, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series, following Hudson Falls historian and retired teacher Matt Rozell’s documentary project on his best-selling book A Train from Magdeburg, about American solders’ liberation of Jewish Holocaust surviors in 1945.

On April 12, film director Mike Edwards and I drove in our rented BMW from near Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to the city of Magdeburg …

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