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Facebook stir: Angelina’s pizza out at Glens Falls games

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Is it too much to call it “Pizzagate?”

For 18 years, since Jeff and Greg Aunchman opened Angelina’s Pizza in 2005, the restaurant has supplied the concession stand pizzas for Glens Falls High School sports home games.

They do the same for some Queensbury games, the Glens Falls Greenjackets, and most recently South Glens Falls.

Angelina’s ignited a firestorm of upset when it posted …

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Council members say headway being made vs crime

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

“The police are dealing with this,” said Ward 2 Councilman Robert Landry when contacted Tuesday. Is Glens Falls safe? “I think basically we are safe. Go 50 miles south of here, every day there’s a shooting in Albany, Troy, and Schenectady, and that surrounding area, and there’s other violent crime.”

Mr. Landry said, “I’m glad to see the city, especially the police department take …

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Our October 12 front page

Support Small Business! Barry Melrose. Angelina’s ouster. Golden Monkey Lounge to open, 58 South Street. Vying to be the next Warren Co. Clerk. Rattlesnake rescue. Council members say headway being made vs. crime. Thunder pre-season game is Friday; also training camp open. Nemers’ $33,000 gift renovates GFH lounge. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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Brown water update: Mayor says it should pass, no danger

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Three times over 90 days, many Glens Falls residents have experienced alarmingly brown water.

“My water was running a color, I guess you could describe it as ‘Coca Cola brown,’” Crandall Street resident Mike Metzger told the Sept. 26 Common Council meeting.

Anxious or angry residents posted pictures on Facebook of bathtubs filled with rust-brown water.

Glens Falls Water and Sewer Superintendent Bill Norton …

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Jones Ordway, lumber baron, gave GF ‘YMCA’ its downtown home, from 1892 to 1969

By Maury Thompson, Chronicle Freelance

In 1890, Jones Ordway contributed $50,000 — the equivalent of $1.68 million in 2023 dollars — toward construction of the Glens Falls Y.M.C.A. building on Glen Street.

The name “Ordway Hall” can still be seen on the front of the building that now houses SPoT Coffee on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors.

Mr. Ordway, a lumber baron and paper manufacturer, died …

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