The Whitehall Cross Country team held a meet with North Warren and Hadley Luzerne at the Valley View Golf Course on Oct. 18 that served as a tune-up for the teams as they begin to prepare for the crucial end of the season meets. Sophomore PJ Ferguson won another race as he continues to [...]
English Honor Society students “Read for the Record”
Whitehallpre-kindergarten and kindergarten students joined five million of their peers in attempting to set a rather lofty record last week. Members of the two elementary school classes were part of the Read for the Record event, where students around the country all read from the book “Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anne Dewdney, on the [...]
Ferguson keeping up the pace
PJ Ferguson continues his best Steve Prefontaine impersonation winning his second race of the season. Ferguson’s time of 17:26 paced the boy’s field and was more than 22 seconds faster than the second place finisher. The win was Ferguson’s second in three races this season. He also finished second at the Queensbury Invitational last month. [...]
Big efforts lead track
By Derek Liebig Whitehall was paced by several strong individual performances during last weekend’s Anthony Luciano Invitational in Hudson Falls. Head coach Justin Culligan said earlier in the week he would look for some of his stronger athletes to turn in a strong performance in a meet that had too much fire power to be [...]
New method slated for May school budget vote
New voting method should avoid delays School budget voters will see a new process when they go to the polls May 17. Superintendent Mark Bessen told the Granville Board of Education Monday night the new method of voting will be just a bit different, but should streamline the process going forward. “I’m suggesting [...]
Granville Crew Wows Judges at Rube Goldberg
When the Granville High School ‘Green Team’ heard the announcement, they were stunned to say the least. Not because they had won, but because according to the announcement – they hadn’t. The team members had a number of reasons to believe they should be finalists in the 2011 Union College Rube Goldberg Contest held Saturday, [...]
Boys track opens 3-1; Benjamin, Lavin win
Whitehall’s boys Track team completed a successful opening week splitting a dual meet against Stillwater and Schuylerville in Stillwater last Thursday. The Railroaders fell to Stillwater but defeated Schuylerville. Jake Evans, Jared DeRusha and Zach Diekel paved the way for Whitehall, each winning two events. Evans won a very close 100 meter race, crossing the [...]
Science and Art Fair number 19 at GHS
PTA science and arts fair a success Students shine at annual fair A huge crowd strolled through the doors at the Granville Central School’s 19th Annual PTA Science, Technology, and Art Fair to observe this and over 175 other science, technology, and art exhibits. There were plant demonstrations, experiments with static electricity and simple circuits, [...]
Rube Goldberg machine a winner
The Green Team from Granville toook first place at the Rube Goldberg competition at Union College April 9. Check out this video of the machine at work provided by Granville technology teacher Gary Gendron.





