Several area students have have been named to the Dean’s List at their respective schools. Nicholas Stark and Mark Carswell, both of Whitehall, were named to the Dean’s List at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences for the fall 2010 semester. Robert Gendron, also of Whitehall, was named to the Dean’s List at Norwich [...]
LaRose elected Mayor
Few voters turned out for the Granville Village election where the four candidates ran unopposed for mayor, two trustee seats and village judge. Brian LaRose will be the new mayor garnering 55 votes; LaRose won a four year term. Returning trustee Paul Labas also earned 55 votes with trustee Dean Hyatt taking 54; both men [...]
Village Election March 15
Voting for the Granville Village elections will take place Tuesday, March 15 from noon to 9 p.m. in the village hall at 51 Quaker Street. Village clerk Rick Roberts said the voting will be on paper ballots as the number of voters in the election is expected to be low with no contested races. Former [...]
Whitehall “Shadowing” program set
By Bill Toscano It’s an easy downhill walk from Whitehall Elementary School to Whitehall Central School, but for sixth-graders leaving sixth grade for seventh in the other building, it can seem like scaling a cliff. That’s why, after the winter break, each of the 58 sixth-graders will get a chance to spend a full [...]
No contested races in March election
The question of a contested election for the village of Granville came down to the wire this week. With days to go to the deadline, four candidates declared their intentions and made the necessary arrangements to make the ballot for the village election March 15. Candidates needed to pick up an official petition and gather [...]
Eye-opening session on bullying
After 20 years in education, Gregg Chappell had never seen anything like it. “We had a situation with a student who was known to be a bully,” Chappell, dean of students at Whitehall Central School, told a crowd of close to 40 at “Bullying Prevention Night” on Jan. 6. “He started in on another student, [...]
Villagers vote on March 15
Voters will go to the polls in March to determine who will head up a portion of the village government, including a new individual to sit in the mayor’s chair. At the Jan. 3 village board meeting village clerk Rick Roberts announced the election will be held Tuesday, March 15. The polls will be open [...]
Editorial: Bullying meetings very important
Sixteen years of teaching will convince anyone that bullying is everywhere. It’s in every school, in the classrooms, in the hallways, in the locker rooms, and on the Internet. It can leave scars that will last a lifetime and create patterns of behavior that lead to a lafe-long pattern of bullying. It’s not just the [...]






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 [...]