North Granville gets a grocery (back) Almost seven months to the day after a fire gutted, and ultimately destroyed, Schoony’s North Granville Grocery, Schoony’s Country Market rose from the ashes Friday and the community breathed a sigh of relief. Friday morning, June 24 the Schoony’s family gathered in front of the store to begin [...]
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Despite rain, cold burn ban until May 15
Local fire officials are reminding people despite the cold, wet spring, a yard cleanup staple, burning, comes with time and materials restrictions. A 2009 law limited outdoor burning as well as burn barrels for incinerating household refuse, officials said. Included in the measure banning the burning of household trash in open outdoor receptacles, the law [...]
Town survey to look at use of farmland
The Town of Granville will be mailing a survey to all farmers and farmland owners in the town this week. The survey is designed to help the town understand how farmers and farmland owners feel about farming in Granville and about the types and extent of farming activities taking place. Granville received a grant [...]
Marker returns to Quaker Street
In the blink of an eye it was gone. Two centuries of history vanished off of the construction site of the stand-alone Rite Aid in 2007 as a mile marker for the Lansingburgh Turnpike disappeared after it was removed, ironically, for its protection. An investigation by New York State Police failed to produce any leads [...]
Junior service club brings eggs back
Spring finally arrived Saturday morning in Wells. Under sunny skies the Modern Woodmen Hall carnival grounds looked as if they had been visited by a most unusual flock of chickens with brightly colored plastic eggs scattered as far as the eye could see across the grass. At the word “Go” from the public announcement system, [...]
As maple season ends, final reviews are mixed
Some up, some down at end maple season As the Maple season comes to a close at Rathbun’s Maple Sugar House the crew on Hatch Hill Road can look back on a successful year, not one for the record books but quite nice by comparison. Matt Rathbun said the early work in the woods paid [...]
Second Maple Weekend on tap for Saturday
Bright sunshine but cool temperatures couldn’t keep the big crowds away on the first day of the Maple Weekend on Saturday. The 16th annual celebration of all things maple will continue March 26 and 27 at locations across the state. At Grottoli’s Maple on Ritchie Road in Middle Granville the crowds ebbed and flowed like [...]
Maple Weekend
Hopping to get ready Inside Grottoli’s Sugarhouse Saturday and Sunday was a flurry of activity. Maple Weekend is almost upon us and the family was getting ready to host visitors from all around the region starting Friday, March 18 as Grottoli’s hosts the ceremonial first tapping of the two week celebration of all [...]
Costly salt
The purchase of additional salt for the remaining portion of winter weather could get expensive for Granville, highway superintendent John Tanner said Thursday night. “Well I guess it’s pretty much common knowledge what we’ve been up to since the last meeting,” Tanner said. Highway crews having been busy with the roads but have managed to [...]
Rathbun and crew prepare for Maplesugar weather
As the mercury crested 50 degrees last week, most people in the area were thinking spring, but just a handful were doing something about it. Matt Rathbun and a crew of four men were checking lines, tapping trees and running new lines, getting ready to collect ample maple sap when it begins to flow. “Trying [...]
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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 [...]