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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Glens Falls Indians. Lake George Warriors. Corinth Tomahawks. These local schools are among 70 districts that New York State said must remove their Native American team names, mascots and imagery by the school year’s end.

If not, they risk “punishments”— the state’s word — including loss of state funding and removal of school officials.

Cambridge school, with its Indians name and native American image, …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

I’m not taking a stand one way or the other on whether Glens Falls High School should surrender its Indians name, but knowing how these challenges usually end, I naturally started pondering alternatives in case the Indian is jettisoned.

Here are some possibilities.

The Pulpers. That’s the first one that popped into my head. It gets at the essence of Glens Falls — the …