Tag Archives: Bandstand

Historical Society Memory Tree

The Historical Society is currently accepting donations from local residents who like to have a bulb lit memory of a loved on the organization’s memory tree. For $1, residents can have a bulb place on the tree, which will be displayed at the 1892 Bandstand in Riverside Veteran’s Memorial Park. Donations can be sent to: [...]

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Veterans Park founders to be honored

By Jaime Thomas Granville will thank a group of men who took up an important idea many decades ago, after the Veterans Day parade on Sunday, Nov. 11, which starts at 1 p.m. on Main Street. The village will unveil a new memorial during a ceremony to recognize the 11 members of the Veterans Park [...]

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Rutland City Band up next in Friday night concert series

  One of the area’s oldest municipal bands will take the Whitehall stage this Friday. The Rutland City Band will perform at 7 p.m. on Aug. 17 on the bandstand at the Riverside Veterans Memorial Park on Main Street. In the tradition of American town bands, the group plays a variety of music for all [...]

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Hartford community band to play Friday

The Whitehall Music in the Park summer concert series gets off to its official start tomorrow night as the Hartford Community Band returns to the newly renovated bandstand in Riverside Veterans Memorial Park. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Formed over 20 years ago by Hartford Central School alumni, the band boasts an impressive [...]

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Bandstand gets new lease on life

              The Whitehall bandstand is undergoing renovations that will return it to its original grandeur. Work began last week and is expected to be finished in time for the Hartford Community Band’s opening performance of the Whitehall Music in the Park summer concert series on Friday, July 20. The [...]

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Canal Fest to celebrate 30 year anniversary

One of the Whitehall’s most eagerly anticipated annual events will celebrate its 30th anniversary later this month. The Whitehall Canal Festival is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, July 13 and 14 at the Skenesborough Park. The carnival-like festival has been a staple of the summer season in Whitehall since 1982. Jim Aiken, who reprises his [...]

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Summer concerts lineup is announced

Organizers of the 2012 Whitehall Summer Concert Series have announced this year’s lineup of performers and the list includes a number of acts that have made the series so popular. The series gets off to a similar start as it did last year, with the Willie Playmore Band performing live from Harbor Park during the [...]

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Holiday tree to be on display

The Historical Society of Whitehall will again, this year, set up a Holiday tree on the 1892 bandstand in Riverside Veteran Memorial Park and light it with memorial light bulbs. Donations will be accepted at $1 for each bulb In Memory of friends and relatives. These memorials will be inserted in the Whitehall Times each [...]

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Hometown Holiday in Veterans Park

Sleigh bells will be ringing and carolers singing as the Hometown Holiday Festival signals the official start of the holiday season to Granville Friday night, Dec. 2. The Granville Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event invites everyone out to welcome the Holiday Season in Veterans Park beginning at 6 p.m. Santa gives the eight reindeer a [...]

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Memorial bulbs for sale

The Historical Society of Whitehall will again, this year, set up a Holiday tree on the 1892 bandstand in Riverside Veteran Memorial Park and light it with memorial light bulbs. Donations will be accepted at $1 for each bulb In Memory of friends and relatives. These memorials will be inserted in the Whitehall Times each [...]

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Community Calendar 5/23/13

  Thursday May 23   Chicken and Biscuit SALEM The handicap-accessible Salem United Methodist Church on W. Broadway invites everyone [...]

Area towns celebrate Memorial Day

By Jaime Thomas Veterans, bands, music and prayer will all be part of the Granville and Hartford Memorial Day Parade [...]

Vermont’s artists to open doors to studios this weekend

By Derek Liebig Vermont’s Open Studio Weekend combines two of Marion Waldo McChesney’s favorite things: Art and people. In the [...]

Digging in

Pember Library Director Ardyce Bresett helps 2-year-old Kadance Moyer plant a morning glory as part of the Dig in to [...]

Seniors honor Earl Morrow

By Jaime Thomas The Hartford Senior Citizens gathered at AJ’s Restaurant on Tuesday to enjoy a luncheon and honor Earl [...]

VPR commentator entertains at Slate Valley Museum

By Jaime Thomas About 75 people gathered at the Slate Valley Museum Thursday evening to listen to Vermont Public Radio [...]

Hebron holds off on revaluation

By Jaime Thomas Several weeks after a special meeting addressing Hebron residents’ concerns about revaluation, the town board did not [...]

Horde baseball loses to league leader

As their season came to a close, Horde baseball players suffered a 3-1 home loss to Greenwich on Monday. Greenwich [...]

Granville softball heads for sectionals

By Jaime Thomas Following a shutout game against Cambridge on Wednesday and a win over Hoosick Falls on Friday, the [...]

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