19th Annual Granville PTA Science and Art Fair Have you ever wondered how a honeybee makes honey or how one would wire a lighthouse? Can you tell the difference between animal DNA and human DNA? These are just a few of the projects that have been displayed in the past at the Granville PTA Science [...]
Town mourns popular teen
By Bill Toscano His classmates will remember Tommy Pollinger as the guy who made them laugh, the athlete who seemed to wear most of the uniforms Whitehall had to offer and a friend with a quick smiling and a helping hand. They will remember attending his Bar Mitzvah, perhaps the only such celebration they had [...]
WWII Clock Rededication now on DVD
It was a milestone 67 years in the making and now the memory of the rededication of the World War II Veterans Memorial Clock can be purchased for viewing at home. More than 1,000 people gathered to acknowledge the men who served from the Greatest Generation as well as the man who restored the Memorial [...]
O Christmas tree
Tree, the holidays and other things I did decide to put up a tree – totally worth it; there’s just something nice about sitting around near the lights of a Christmas tree. When I heard about the thing Schoony was doing with the trees that cemented it for me, the price was right and it [...]
Lights
Does your neighbor have the best Christmas lights setup in town; do you? Do the lights on your street dim when you power up your outside display? Have passing airplanes lined up your driveway thing it’s an airport? Subtle, super or just plain over the top, let us know about your neighbor’s holiday decorations, or [...]
Show off your Lights
Do you have the best Christmas lights setup in town? Would Clark Griswold be jealous of you holiday lighting display? Do passing airplanes sometimes line up your driveway? Subtle, super or just plain over the top, let us know about yours or your neighbor’s holiday decorations and we’ll come take a look. If we decide [...]
First Fridays
“First Fridays: Home Grown at the Pember” will continue with three new artists, music and an old-fashioned ice cream social from 7 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 5 at the Pember Library and Museum, 33 W. Main Street in Granville. Featured will be natural sculptures by Bob Dienst, elegantly formed bowls by Tony Mesaric, and [...]
Fall Baseball Program at Castleton State College has room for only a few more
The four-week fall pitching/hitting baseball program at Castleton State College is almost full and has only a few spaces remaining. This skill intensive program will be held on Sunday afternoons at Castleton State College. The program is designed to prepare players, ages 10-18, for the physical and mental aspects of pitching and/or hitting. The weekly [...]
Lucy Stone
The Poultney Historical Society, Poultney High School, and Green Mountain College’s WAGE club are bringing abolitionist/suffragette Lucy Stone to town on Wednesday, Nov. 3. A contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Stone, the best known female orator of her era as embodied by storyteller/actress Judith Black, will appear on Wednesday at 1:30 [...]
Mayor’s e-mail, Facebook pirated
So, there was the Putorti family, vacationing off in Jolly Ole’ England, when a band of masked marauders caught them at gunpoint and asked them to turn over all their money and credit cards. That left Whitehall Mayor Francis “Fra” Putorti and his family in quite a pickle, needing to ask friends and family for [...]






