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Northern New York’s Leading Newspaper • Down to earth and growing • Vol. 35, No. 1,581 • April 2-8, 2015
Good to be Joel Wincowski!
By Gordon Woodworth
Chronicle News Editor
It’s good to be Joel Wincowski
these days. The Lake George
High School guard is still the
talk of the
North Country after
his heartstopping,
nothing-butnet 30-footer
with 1.6
seconds left
lifted the
Warriors to
their second state title in three
years on March 21. There’s
a maple bacon donut named
after him at Caffé Vero, and his
humble, quiet demeanor has
won him fans all over.
“It’s been pretty fun this
week,” he said Sunday, sitting
on the couch in the front room
of his family’s home that overlooks Lake
George.
Sitting
next to him
was his
father, also
named Joel.
A former
vice-president of St.
Lawrence
University,
he’s now a vice president and
executive for the Registry of
College and University Presidents, which helps schools with
His 30-footer won
NYS title for Lake
George; looks ahead
to college at UMBC
Becky Monahan with a finished paper dryer canister, built at GL&V in Hudson Falls for
a paper mill. Chronicle photo/Gordon Woodworth
From mailroom to GM
at HF’s GL&V
Please turn to page 18
By Gordon Woodworth
Chronicle News Editor
Wincowski is 6-foot-2, athletic and
can jump, as this photo of him dunking vs.
Haldane confirms. Photo by Terri Shambo
Joel Wincowski with his parents Carol and Joel,
at their Lake George home. Chronicle photo/Gordon Woodworth
BOOK
Becky (Wood) Monahan started
in April 1979 as an entry-level
mailroom clerk at the former
Sandy Hill Corporation. Now
she’s the general manager of its
successor, GL&V, which has 90
employees in
Hudson Falls.
Becky
“You know
those people
Monahan
who work
for the same
has done
company for
it all in
35 years?” she
says. “I’m one
35-year
of those people.”
career at
After graduating from Hudone firm
son Falls High
School in 1978,
Mrs. Monahan met her husband,
Rick, at Sandy Hill while picking
up, sorting and delivering mail
throughout the 19-acre property.
Rick is part owner of Monahan
WEEK
Banks’s ‘Cloudsplitter’
— about John Brown
Chronicle Staff Writer Patrick Daley
writes: First published in 1998,
Russell Banks’s novel Cloudsplitter is an ambitious portrayal of the polarizing white abolitionist John Brown, known for
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