Thursday May 2 Catamount Exhibit BENNINGTON An exhibition on the “Disappearance of the Catamount from Vermont” will be on display from May 2 through July 30 at the Bennington Museum, 75 Main Street, Route 9. Information: 802-447-1571, or www.benningtonmuseum.org. Walk Fit Group SCHUYLERVILLE The Schuylerville Public Library’s Walk Fit group will meet [...]
Community Calendar 4/4/13
Thursday April 4 Snakes/Lizards GRANVILLE The Pember Museum at 33 W. Main Street in Granville will offer a program for children age 5 and older on “Snakes & Lizards” from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 4. Learn about “c-o-o-l” animals and color a wooden snake or lizard. Cost: $3. Registration is [...]
Local BOCES students take home top honors
A pair of Whitehall teens was among nearly 100 local BOCES students who won a regional SkillsUSA Competition held in Schenectady. Carl Rehm and Riley Eagan both took home top honors during the competition, which was held at Schenectady Community College and Stratton Air Force Base. Rehm won in the automotive mechanics division while Eagan [...]
Changes welcome students
The usual start-of-school jitters may be even more intense than usual next week, as the Granville schools open the year with new principals in two schools, a new director of special education, a new chief information officer and a second-year principal at the high school. Add to that the addition of new state regulations for [...]
Changes across board at high school
Students at Granville High School will return to find a variety of changes, affecting everyone from seventh-graders to seniors. Principal James Donnelly said many of the changes were a result of surveys done of part of the “school in need of improvement” status the school was placed on as a result of low standardized test [...]
Granville grads struff their stuff
By Krystle Morey The front lawn of Granville High School was covered with family and friends to watch 105 members of the Class of 2012 walk across the stage Friday night, including two German exchange students, two college-bound juniors and Samuel McDermott who received his diploma from his father. The sky was blue and [...]
State issues school test scores: Whitehall doing well in middle school, lagging elsewhere
Middle school students in the Whitehall School district are outperforming their peers statewide and more students are graduating but elementary and high school students continue to score lower than their peers across the state. The percentage of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students in the Whitehall School district who are meeting the basic standards on state [...]
Solo concert show give kids an audience
Music teacher Tim Patrick knows his Granville High School students get plenty of chances to sing together, so he’s now asking them to go out on their own. Patrick is planning a free community concert at 7 p.m., Monday, April 30, in the high school auditorium. The “Solos [...]






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 [...]