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 [...]
Devil’s Bowl season gets green flag this Sunday
Devil’s Bowl Speedway opens for the season Sunday, May 6, with the “Spring Green” event, which will include a 112-lap race for the American Canadian Tour cars, as well as feature races for the track’s NASCAR Bond Auto Parts Modifieds, Renegades and Bombers. Opening day will be the first for new owners Mike and Alayne [...]
Little League Clean-Up Saturday
It’s a long way until Opening Day, but Little League of Granville needs the community’s help now rather than later. A work day event has been scheduled for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., for the fields, which are off Glen and Columbus streets, to deal with the damage left by the flooding caused by Tropical [...]
Blues skies for Little League start
Warm weather, crowds greet opening day of Little League The kickoff to the 2011 Little League featured endings and beginnings under bright sunshine on what might have been the nicest day of the year thus far Sunday. Retiring Little League President Ernie Bassett received a rousing round of applause as he was recognized [...]
Snowstorm hits region
Dropping an estimated 8-12 inches of snow locally and whipping the flakes around with gusting winds as high as 30 mph, the blizzard of 2010 caused whiteout conditions for those commuting to work Monday morning before the storm wound down around midday. Initially forecasted to miss the area entirely, the first Nor’easter of the 2010-2011 [...]
Whitehall tournament starts one day later
The opening day of the Whitehall Holiday Tournament has been postponed due to the inclement weather. All activities will take place starting Dec. 28 (as scheduled for the 27th) and continuing on into Dec. 29. All activities start one day later but will proceed as planned.
quick one
Who knew? Latest word is that Matt Rathbun changed his mind about taking the interim supervisor’s position. After giving every indication he planned to accept the job, Rathbun said today he will not be named tonight at the special 7 p.m. board meeting. Haven’t heard yet if this changes anything at the county [...]
Youth Center to open this month
Peek-a-boo you can see the Youth Center The paper has come down. The newspaper covering the front windows of the soon-to-be Granville PBA Youth Center came down Sunday night as work progresses toward an opening day.






