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Luci DiDio: A recipient at age 4 in 2013; now 9th grade SHMD dancer

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Luci DiDio doesn’t have much memory of the year she was a recipient of the South High Marathon Dance.

It was 2013, and she was four years old. “I was in and out of multiple hospitals, for really as long as I could remember when I was that young.”

Mom Tammy DiDio says, “At the time, she was presenting with seizures, failure to thrive, …

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Marathon Dance schedule

Here is the schedule of events for the 47th annual South High Marathon Dance on Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2 — this year fully back at the South Glens Fall High School for all events, for the first time since COVID.

Friday, March 1

  • 5 p.m. Senior registration/public shuttle buses begin operation/old gym opens for sales/new gym opens for seating
  • 5:25 p.m. Junior registration
  • 5:50 p.m. Sophomore registration

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Students chose 34 recipients; their needs

Here are the 21 individuals and familaies that the 2024 South High Marathon Dance selected as recipients. The Marathon Dance is Friday to Saturday, March 1-2, at South Glens Falls High School.

Student committee members take the lead reading through the applications and selecting recipients each year.


Olivia Allen, 18, of Saratoga Springs, assistance to cover medical bills since diagnosis with Leukemia.

Molly Clothier, age 7, of …

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28 hours, back at the school & fully open to public for first time since 2020

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The 47th annual South High Marathon Dance returns March 1 & 2 to the High School for the first time since the Covid pandemic. After three years having to adjust, it will all be in one location, at the school and fully open to the public.

Senior Logan Mahoney, a student co-chair, says, “You may have seen the dance through our SHMD broadcast, but …

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Another cannabis dispensary proposed in Downtown Glens falls

Chronicle Staff Writer Ben Westcott writes:

A proposal for a cannabis dispensary at the site of the current Pizza Hut on 12 Hudson Ave. in Glens Falls will go before the Glens Falls Planning Board on March 5.

Matthew Robinson of Troy “is seeking sketch plan review and approval” to open a cannabis dispensary called Legacy Dispensary at the site. Mr. Robinson is CEO of a Legacy Dispensary in Colonie

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