It’s going to be loud at the Whitehall Athletic Club this weekend. “Meltdown on the Mettawee,” a heavy metal concert featuring Metallica and Pantera cover bands will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2013. The show features two Albany-based acts headlining what is billed as “a metal tribute show like no other.” Creeping Death, a [...]
Village helps fire department with Irene losses
By Jaime Thomas During the 36 hours members of the Granville fire department spent outside during Tropical Storm Irene, some of their equipment got pretty wet. In fact, enough got soaked to result in a loss of more than $16,000 worth of radios, pagers, road cones, flashlights, rope, and other technical equipment, Chief Ryan Pedone [...]
Memorial Concert set for Nov. 23
Friends and family of Dan Lafayette are coming together later this month to host a memorial concert in his honor. The concert, which will benefit Lafayette’s young children, will be held on Friday, Nov. 23, at the Whitehall Athletic Club. The concert will feature performances by several local musicians, some of whom Lafayette performed with. [...]
Whitehall native releases album
Alex “Brasi” Hyatt can still remember that fateful day 10 years later. It was the summer of 2002 and he was sitting in the living room of his Maple Street home when the phone rang. On the other end was his friend, Shane Gregorio, telling him to turn the radio on. He got up, adjusted [...]
Concert to feature former area musicians
Alex Hyatt isn’t the only musician from Whitehall making a cameo at Big G’s next week. In fact, he’s not even getting top billing. That honor belongs to the Killbillies, a band out of West Palm Beach, Fla., led by fellow Whitehall native Micah Scott. The concert and release party will be held beginning at [...]
Help Wanted
The Pawlet Public Library is looking for a few good men … and women and children to help set up a tradition nearing its fifth decade – the library book sale. The Big Book Move is Wednesday, July 27. The transportation fleet will start loading and rolling at 5 p.m. sharp at Edi Mach’s Barn [...]
LaRose elected Mayor
Few voters turned out for the Granville Village election where the four candidates ran unopposed for mayor, two trustee seats and village judge. Brian LaRose will be the new mayor garnering 55 votes; LaRose won a four year term. Returning trustee Paul Labas also earned 55 votes with trustee Dean Hyatt taking 54; both men [...]
Village Election March 15
Voting for the Granville Village elections will take place Tuesday, March 15 from noon to 9 p.m. in the village hall at 51 Quaker Street. Village clerk Rick Roberts said the voting will be on paper ballots as the number of voters in the election is expected to be low with no contested races. Former [...]
Gassing up a poor choice for suspect
Taking time to gas up a stolen car was not necessarily a good idea for a Granville man, who is now facing a felony charge. Jonathan P. Hyatt, 24, was sent Monday morning to the Warren County Jail for lack of bail, charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, police said. New York State Police said Hyatt [...]
No contested races in March election
The question of a contested election for the village of Granville came down to the wire this week. With days to go to the deadline, four candidates declared their intentions and made the necessary arrangements to make the ballot for the village election March 15. Candidates needed to pick up an official petition and gather [...]







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 [...]