The Granville Hook & Ladder Fire Company will host a weekend of country music fun starting Friday with the inaugural “First Annual Country Music Jamboree” on Aug. 19, 20 and 21. Hook and Ladder treasurer Dan Roberts said the music will be all country, everything from old timey country and square dance country to current [...]
Youth League seeks fund-raising ideas
By Bill Toscano The Whitehall Youth League, which provides more than 225 youths in grades 3-6 the chance to play baseball and offers football and cheerleading to about 70, has lost one-third of its funding because of the ban on coin drops. “If you add everything up, we probably spend about $20,000, and about one-third [...]
People to People for Brown
Garrett Brown has joined the ranks of the People to People Student Ambassadors and will be spending almost three weeks traveling Europe in the coming summer. From July 10 to 29 the soon-to-be senior will tour England, France and Italy with the student group a number of Granville youths have joined to experience a bit [...]
Poultney High School News
National Honors Society On Friday, Oct. 22, the PHS chapter of the National Honors Society (NHS) participated in a community service project at the senior center. Under the guidance of Mary Thomas, executive director of the Young at Heart Senior Center, the group of students raked leaves around the center’s property. NHS will accomplish a number of [...]
Fundraisers Halted
Please, don’t ask for anything more. That’s the message that was sent out by Whitehall Central School Superintendent James Watson last week as he announced a “freeze” on school organizations fundraising throughout the rest of the school year.
Bingo fundraisers feeling the pinch
Bingo Longtime fundraisers fading away? Once upon a time the chairs were full every game night and local fire departments raised a fair amount of money through hosting a weekly bingo game. But those days seem to have gone away.





