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By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The Glens Falls High School football team is New York State’s Class B champion after a heart-stopping 47-39 win over powerhouse Chenango Forks in Syracuse’s Carrier Dome on Saturday, Nov. 26.

The 13-0 Indians won Glens Falls’s first state title doing what they have done all season: Using their incredible team speed and skill, and a gritty Glens Falls-borne toughness, to get the job …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Sophomore Joseph Girard III, who quarterbacked Glens Falls High School’s state championship football team, is a top Division I college basketball prospect, but “I’m definitely playing football for two more years,” he said when we asked him Monday before Glens Falls basketball practice.

Girard, who turned 16 on Nov. 27, has already received three full-ride Division I scholarship offers — from UAlbany, High Point …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Hudson Falls Marine Corps League. Memorial Detachment 2 has broken ties with the National Toys for Tots program and has gone independent with their own “Toys for Girls and Boys” program to provide gifts to area children for the Christmas season.

Committee member Jerry Steves of Queensbury said that after last holiday season, Toys for Tots centralized in Albany.

“We wanted to be sure …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Sixty-four years after it opened in the heart of downtown Glens Falls, Scoville Jewelers is closing.

“Debra [Vales] and I are retiring and the store will be closing the end of December,” Chris Scoville told The Chronicle.

He said they’ll exit on a high note.

“We’ve been blessed, for the last year and a half business has been amazing,” Mr. Scoville said. “We thank …

Poblano’s Authentic Mexican Food will relocate from its small “shack” at 199 Warren Street across from Stewart’s to the heart of downtown at 14 Ridge Street, the former location of Hometown Smoothies (directly across from The Chronicle office).

“Same great food, better location,” with indoor seating as well as take-out, says the ad announcing the move, which owners Mark and Mariana Brown said will happened “on or about December 1st.”…