Twenty-one Granville students recently went to the New York State FFA Convention in Albion, N.Y., and many fared well in various categories. “This was an amazing adventure and a giant success story,” Advisor Terry Wheeler said of the event. The Farm Business Management Team, consisting of Kassie Ambrosi, Emily Campbell, Emily LaFlamme and Marc Billow, [...]
Granville robotics team competes in California
By Jaime Thomas More than 400 teams from all over America and the world gathered in Anaheim, Calif., last week for the Vex Robotics World Championship. Four students and a teacher from Granville were among them. Accompanied by their teacher, Gary Gendron, Marc Billow, Christina Rice, Jordon Penor and Joey Lea competed 10 times over [...]
Students advance to worldwide competition
A four-student team from Granville High School recently won an impressive design award at a robotics competition in New Hampshire. The team, consisting of Marc Billow, Christina Rice, Jordan Penor and Joey Lea, was one of 71 in the event and had pre-qualified from a previous competition in February. The design award is giving to [...]
Board of Education, June 6
The Monday, June 6 meeting of the Granville Board of Education highlighted technology as the school’s team previewed the new school website and showed off the student/teacher produced promotional video for the district. The technology team from Granville Junior Senior High School provided the board of education with a preview of the school’s new [...]
Frances Raila Sufnarski, 91
Frances Raila Sufnarski, age 91, passed away on Sept. 20, 2010, at Indian River Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following a long illness. Fran was born on Sept. 5, 1929, in Amsterdam, the daughter of William and Veronica (Milauskas) Raila. Fran attended St. Casimir’s Grade School and graduated from William Lynch High School in 1947. Fran [...]
Stanley John Sufnarski, 82
Stanley John Sufnarski passed away on Oct. 19, 2009, at St. Peter’s Hospice Inn in Albany. Stan was born on Feb. 19, 1927, in Amsterdam, the son of the late Stanley and Mary (Staszewski) Sufnarski. Stan was a graduate of Hartwick College with a bachelor of science degree in education. He [...]






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 [...]