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Our July 17 front page

Summer Home Issue! Portnoy, Lucky Puppy. Marcabes. Our man Ben is climbing a mountain a day. Touring Vietnam War Wall at HF Legion, 7/25-28. Hayden Knapp wins NYS Women’s Amateur Golf Championship. Sears Kit House tour in Saratoga. County aims to open homeless family shelter on Gurney Lane. GF Youth Center at $800,000 of $900,000 goal for Wellness Center addition. Glens Falls requires registration by all short-term rentals. Concerts, comedy, …

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Hayden Knapp wins NYS Women’s Amateur Golf Title as South High Sophomore!

Chronicle Editor Mark Frost writes: South High student Hayden Knapp won the 95th New York State Women’s Amateur Golf Championship Tuesday at St. George’s Golf & Country Club at East Setauket, Long Island.

Hayden shot 72-74-71 for a 217 total in the three-round tournament to defeat Kennedy Swedick of Albany by one shot.

Kennedy Swedick golfs for the University of Virginia. Hayden Knapp of Gansevoort will be entering her sophomore …

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South Glens Falls man will be NY Yankees’ vet of the game 7/26

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The New York Yankees will honor Fred Valastro, 91, of South Glens Falls as its Veteran of the Game on Saturday, July 26, at Yankee Stadium.

The Whitehall High School grad who has lived in South Glens Falls for 58 years served in the Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan from 1953 to 1956 during the Korean War.

His granddaughter Nicki Valastro was the one …

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Our July 10 front page

Torrent of Local Events! Woman, 21, drowns in Lake George. SGF man will be NY Yankees’ vet of the game 7/26. Rock the Dock, Steamboat Co’s big fest!. Bill Gates passed away on July 4. ‘LG Journey’: New book aims both for kids & coffee tables. Zerbini Circus! 5 shows in GF & HF. Fort Miller’s bell. Adirondack Thunder name Sylvain Cloutier new coach. No more Greenjackets at GF High …

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Shake, Rattle & ready to Roll

Chronicle Editor Mark Frost writes: Literally for years, locals and passers-by at one of Queensbury’s busiest intersections have watched slow, seemingly uncertain progress of a handsome new restaurant building (and a market building) at the corner of Routes 149 and 9L.

It’s totally the vision of Dale Baldwin, the Fort Ann concrete contractor who owns this 25-acre property and knows what he wants to do with it. For one

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