Hordes of shoppers and bargain hunters lined the streets ofWhitehallSaturday morning browsing the large assortment of items for sale on the lawns and in the garages of local residents during last weekend’s annual Town-Wide Lawn Sale. Shoppers from near and far turned out looking for bargains, hard to find items or even gifts for loved [...]
Cash available for grocery store
Representatives from the New York State Healthy Food and Healthy Communities Fund, a financing program that helps facilitate the development of food markets in under-served communities, has designatedWhitehallas a town that qualifies for assistance. Several local officials met with representatives from The Low Income Investment Fund, Pennsylvania-based organization The Food Trust, and Karl Benedikt from [...]
What a weekend
The 30th of July may well be the busiest day of the summer in the Granville area. At 9 a.m. Saturday, the doors to the Mettawee Community School in Pawlet will open, allowing people to choose among the 30,000 books in one of the biggest book sales in Vermont. At noon, the throaty roar of [...]
Lobster bake funds mission trip
Appalachia is one of the poorest places in the United States and a group of local people are using a unique fund-raising method to pay for a mission trip to Eastern Kentucky to help out the neediest in that area. Pastor David Adams from the Wells, Fair Haven and Poultney United Methodist churches said his [...]
Attorney rules in favor of coin drops
By Derek Liebig The Whitehall Volunteer Fire Company is expected to be able to hold a coin drop later this summer after the village attorneydetermined the practice was legal. Mayor Peter Telisky said he received a response from Tony Jordan Tuesday afternoon who saidhe believes that coin drops are permissible. “Tony can find nothing [...]
Chamber plants flowers at intersections
By Derek Liebig If you look closely you may notice a few pleasant changes along Whitehall’s roadways in the next few weeks. The Chamber of Commerce and the Village have been busy planting flowers at a few of the intersections in the community and plans are in place to replace some of the area’s welcome [...]
Whitehall Police Logs: Feb. 14-21
Feb. 14 4:51 p.m. Civil complaint on First Avenue. Matter resolved. 5:04 p.m. Hit-and-run property damage vehicle accident reported on Saunders Street. Investigation continuing. 7:06 p.m. Mental health call on Elizabeth Street, Matter resolved. Feb. 15 7:54 a.m. Assisted with Department of Transportation check on Poultney Street. Inspected two trucks, took one out of service [...]
Whitehall Police Logs: Feb. 7-13
Feb. 7 12:38 p.m. Police were called to Saunders Street for a reported mental health and transported one person to the Glens Falls Hospital Behavioral Health Unit. 7:56 p.m. Called to assist fire company with traffic on Poultney Street 9:14 p.m. Williams Street resident reported dog missing. Neighbor later found and returned the dog. Feb. [...]
Free women’s cancer screening Feb. 2
Whitehall Family Medicine will host a free cancer screening for uninsured women who are 40 and older on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at its offices at 65 Poultney St. Kerin Devlin, an adult nurse practitioner, will conduct the clinic, which will include a PAP test, a breast exam and a colon exam. To make an appointment, [...]
Free Christmas Dinner
The Sullivans, Dale and Patrick, are inviting those anyone who is interested to a free Christmas dinner at Poultney’s Café Dale. The meal will be served buffet style from noon to 2:30 p.m. Christmas Day. “It’s for anyone who doesn’t have a place to go on that day,” owner, operator Dale Sullivan said. The meal [...]






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 [...]