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Our September 25 front page

Autumn Home Issue! New NY homes must go all electric. Harding Mazzotti bets big on Glens Falls. Downtown worries. Dog owners anguish. She waterskis at 80. Bonacio to break ground Oct. 15 on South St. Phase 2. Great Escape Fright Fest starts Sept. 27. Whitehall: Sasquatch fest & calling contest. The Glen Falls was Sears’ second grandest ‘kit’ house. Margo Macero & Shannon Tehya: What a show! Dropped ducks raised …

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Dog deaths arraignment

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Robert and Anastasia Palulis pleaded not guilty in Argyle Town Court Tuesday night to 22 misdemeanor counts of overdriving/torturing/injuring animals and failure to provide proper sustenance to 21 dogs that died last month at their Anastasia’s Acres Dog Boarding business in Argyle.

The case was adjourned by Judge Stacy Davis to Oct. 21 at 5:30 p.m.

Initially, the pair did not show up. Their …

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Adk United girls hockey will play at Harding Mazzotti, exit GF Rec

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Adirondack United, the highly successful girls hockey team comprised of players from several local high schools, will move from the Glens Falls Recreation Center behind the YMCA to the Harding Mazzotti Arena downtown as it seeks its third straight state championship.

Head Coach Jeff Willis said part of why they moved is that they couldn’t get their own locker room at the Rec Center.…

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Candidate’s post on Kirk death roils Moreau council race

Chronicle reporter Ben Westcott writes: Laura Garrant’s Facebook comment after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Sept. 10 has roiled the Moreau town council race.

“I’m praying for the children who were shot today while in school. I’m not praying for someone who spews hate for a living,” wrote Mrs. Garrant, the endorsed Moreau United and Moreau Democratic Committee endorsed town council candidate.

She wrote in …

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Glens Falls Kiwanis at 100: Service, friendship, now 100+ members

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Kiwanis Club was chartered on March 25, 1925.

Originally its membership was only men, “Kiwanis ‘smartened up’ in the mid 1990s to allow female members,” says current club president Jerrod Ogden.

“We are now roughly 50% females.”

Centennial membership drive success

For its 100th year, the Club launched a membership drive. “We wanted a bold and ambitious goal of having 100 …

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