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Rita Sweenor: Thanks all who helped after I was attacked by rabid coyote in FE

Dear Gordon:

It has been two weeks on August 30 since I was attacked by a rabid coyote on the bike trail in Fort Edward. I am healing slowly, though improving each and every day.

I am alive today due to some very caring and extraordinary people. The couple whose house I first stopped at are the beginning of the many very special people that touched my and my family’s …

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Our August 24 issue

Autumn Preview issue Rita Sweenor fights off rabid coyote. Lake George hazards. Washington County Fair. Deric Buck sets ‘Buck’s Tavern’ at former Blue Moose. Glens Falls Tennis & Swim Club closes. Social Security office staying open in Queensbury. Travers Saturday in Saratoga. Max in China. Rock the Dock concert Saturday celebrating Steamboat’s 200th anniversary. Classic boats in Lake George on Saturday also. Marshall Tucker band coming to LG Festival …

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Fought off a rabid coyote; Rita is a survivor!

Rita Sweenor
“I’ll give you the thumbs up,” Rita Sweenor said in posing for this photo Monday evening, five days after a rabid coyote ripped open her scalp, face, arms and legs. How is she doing? “I’m a positive person…I have a lot of recovery to do. Will I have scars? I don’t care. I am who I am. I survived.Chronicle photo/Gordon Woodworth

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

“It …

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