Before the season began, Justin Culligan, Whitehall’s track coach, talked about the competitive drive of Morgan Winters. Last Tuesday, members of the Wasaren League witnessed that drive first hand. The eighth grader finished in a tie for first place in the girls’ 100 meter dash and was part of a 4×100 relay team that finished [...]
Whitehall students win regional Odyssey of the Mind contest
Whitehall’s Odyssey of the Mind team is headed to Binghamton after winning the regional competition Saturday in Queensbury. Whitehall finished first among division II teams in the Pet Project and earned a chance to participate in the state competition on March 23. They are the first team from Whitehall to win a regional Odyssey of [...]
Winters sets school record in triple jump
Whitehall’s Morgan Winters set a school record in the indoor triple jump at a league meet held last Friday at Union College. Winters’ mark of 30 feet 1.5 inches breaks the previous record of 29 feet 7 inches set in 2002 by Melissa Senecal. The mark is made all the more impressive by the fact [...]
Band seeks audience Sunday
Grab a lawn chair and blanket, get outside and enjoy some beautiful summer evenings at free Sunday concerts directed by Kent Baker. The Poultney-Granville Band will be playing every Sunday in July on the East Poultney Green from 6:30 to 8 p.m. In August the band moves to Granville’s Veterans Park for Sunday concerts starting at 6:30 [...]
Youth leads the way as grapplers roll
Whitehallwrestling coach Robert Diekel knew he had a young potentially solid team that had a chance to be competitive at the end of the season, but even he had to be a little surprised by their performance on Saturday afternoon. Whitehallpicked up four pins and four wins by forfeit as they kicked off the 2011-12 [...]
Bowling preview
More experienced bowlers eye success With a season’s experience tacked onto what was a youthful team last season Granville bowling head coach Cathy Kilby expects to see a competitive squad when stacked up against the rest of the Wasaren League. “If we’re luck, between what we kept and what they’re losing, we can do [...]
Diekel third in state wrestling tourney
Junior Zach Diekel scored his best finish ever Saturday, taking third place in the state Division II wrestling championships at the Albany Times-Union Center. This was the third state tournament appearance for Diekel, who has won four straight Section II, Division II titles. He did not place in the state tournament when he was an [...]







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 [...]