By Jaime Thomas As cabin fever hits and everyone gets ready for spring cleaning, two area towns are looking for help tidying up as well. Both Granville and Hartford will hold community cleanup day next Saturday, April 20. Granville’s event is a collaborative effort between the village, the town, the county, the FFA students and [...]
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Free rabies clinics offered
The Washington County Department of Public Health will hold a series of rabies clinics over the next eight months. The first of these clinics, which are completely free, will be held on Saturday, March 23 at the Salem Town Barn on Rexleigh Road. A second clinic will be held on Saturday, April 13, at the [...]
Town of Hampton exploring ways to save on energy costs
The Town of Hampton is exploring ways it can save money on its energy costs. The board approved a motion to purchase two programmable thermostats for the newly constructed town hall and is exploring the possibility of purchasing an exterior wood furnace that would be used to heat the town highway garage. “It’s just an [...]
Village asks firm to study power line
The village has asked an engineering firm to study the possible impact a power line stretching from Canada to New York City could have on its water system. The Champlain Hudson Power Express, a proposed 333-mile power line stretching from Canada to New York City, would see two five-inch thick cables run south under [...]
Education goes on outside classroom: BOCES students work at town highway garage
School is a little bit more labor-intensive for Shan Beebe and Tyler Perry than for most students, and they wouldn’t have it any other way. While many of their peers are sitting in a classroom dissecting Shakespeare or calculating derivatives or integrals, the seniors at Whitehall High School [...]
Village works on water fixes: Focus is on replacing leaky pipes
The village is working on solutions to what ails its aging water system. Mayor Peter Telisky said the village is preparing to replace several hundred feet of water line along the east side of Route 22 north of the village. The line runs from South [...]
Community Service Day planned
Spruce up for spring Granville Community Service Day 2011 Just a glance off the side of the road anywhere in the area shows Granville Community Service Day 2011 can’t come soon enough. A harsh winter’s worth of accumulated debris has repopulated the roadsides of Granville with a fresh coating of fast food wrappers, [...]
Clean up set for April 30
Residents of Granville are encouraged to get out and clean up the trash left behind after a long winter April 30 for the third Granville Community Service Day. The day starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m. for those who plan to volunteer and join groups from the community and high school as [...]
Sand
Sand (and salt) has been in the news lately and it’s brought attention to free sand provided by many area municipalities. Residents are permitted to come to the Granville town garage and take ‘reasonable’ amounts of sand to their homes for use on driveways and walkways and other areas where traction might be needed during [...]
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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 [...]