The Down Home Derby and the Kids’ Down Home Derby, the first ice fishing competitions of the season will be held this weekend in a new and revised format. “We have made several changes this year including the date, headquarters location, allowable fishing waters, number of days and prizes,” said Tom Bartholomew, one of the [...]
Outdoors in Whitehall with Gene Terry: End of another deer season
As you read this, northern zone is over with for another year and Black Powder season in the southern zone closed on Dec. 18. It’s been a long non-productive season for many. There was no feed in the woods for the deer. Where they went to have lunch and supper is beyond me. My success [...]
Community Calendar 9/13/12
Thursday September 13 Bow Hunter Course HARTFORD Registrations are requested by Thursday, Sept. 13, for a Home Study Bow Hunter Safety Education Course that will be offered from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 24 and 25, at the Hartford Fish and Game Club. Information/registration: John Durling at 894-9385, or [...]
Putnam man opens 450 acre bird-hunting preserve
Imagine 450 acres of open hay fields, overgrown grassland and Northeastern forest. It would be the ideal playground for the outdoorsman, which is exactly what Putnam resident Kevin Hart thought when he looked at a parcel of land just south of Ticonderoga. Hart recently opened Putnam Flats Hunting Preserve, a private hunting preserve featuring several [...]
Chicken everywhere
Chicken fans, The month of August will taste just like chicken with what seems like a dozen BBQs around the region. I’m a big (ha-ha) fan of the Q and enjoy sampling the different takes on the regional recipe. I’m always, or at least I was, suprised that no one I’ve seen so far [...]
Robert L. “Soupie” Ross, 89
Robert L. “Soupie” Ross, 89, of Fourth Avenue, passed away on Sunday, August 5, 2007, at the Indian River Nursing Home in Granville. Born on December 26, 1917, in Whitehall, he was the son of the late Milton and Gladys (Marnes) Ross. Robert was a lifelong resident of Whitehall. He was a trainman-brakeman for [...]







