The Town of Whitehall will compensate employees for a four-hundred percent increase in the cost of an insurance deductible for inpatient care. The board approved the measure during last week’s monthly meeting following a request from Highway Superintendent Louie Pratt. Pratt told board members that employees changed their insurance provider and the deductible for inpatient [...]
Town plugs boaters back in
Boaters will once again be able to access electrical services along the Champlain Canal mooring wall after the town board approved a motion to return power to the pedestals behind the Skenesborough Museum and Whitehall Volunteer Fire House. The resolution received the support of Supervisor George Armstrong and [...]
Town board still not interested in LaFlamme’s; votes to purchase new loader
Stan and Brenda Woodruff addressed the town board at last Wednesday’s special board meeting. The couple, who own the building that is currently occupied by LaFlamme’s at 120 Main Street (the store is moving next to the former Aubuchon Building next month) and had offered to rent the building for $1,000 a month (or $120,000 [...]
Town discusses firehouse clause
By Keith Lobdell It’s the ol’ “double-reverter.” The Whitehall Town Council talked about its resolved move to the Skenesborough Volunteer Fire Company and the matter of whom the property should go to if the fire company were to no longer exist during its Nov. 10 meeting. Under the current deed, the property would revert back [...]
Whitehall tax rate up 13-percent
The news did not get any better for the Whitehall town budget in the past week. At the public hearing on the preliminary 2011 spending plan on Nov. 4, town budget officer Kathy Jones said there was an increase to the tax rate due to new figures. “We got new information about retirement figures,” said [...]
A final offer has been made by Fred Troelstra. Troelstra, who is co-owner of Garden Time and the former retail site and Off-Track Betting location on Route 4 in Whitehall presented the town board with three options concerning the property at it’s Dec. 10 meeting.
Town to look closer at site
Talking with site owner, village about to move The Whitehall town hall may be moving closer to the former Off-Track Betting location – but rather than rent the space they may be looking into buying it.
Board needs answers from Rozell at Nov. 6 meeting
The Whitehall town board is not asking highway superintendent Brian Rozell to be at the next meeting on Nov. 6. They are demanding it.





