There will be a new face on the Whitehall Board of Education. Dresden’s Frank Barber will run an uncontested bid for a spot on the board and barring the emergence of a write-in candidate, be elected to the position when ballots are tabulated later this month. If elected, he will replace Bruce Wescott whose five [...]
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Village eyes 1.5 percent tax hike
The village has released its 2013-14 tentative budget and although officials were able to hold the line on most expenses, the spending plan calls for an increase in taxes to make up for insurance costs and an increase in pension contributions. As proposed, the village’s tax levy, the amount of money it collects through taxes, [...]
Diekel wins Ken Baker Classic; picks up 200th win
John Diekel officially picked up his 200th win last Saturday at the Coach Ken Baker Classic at Cambridge High School and then put an exclamation point on the milestone by winning the tournament. Diekel pinned Hadley-Luzerne/Lake George’s Jason Hoffman in the third period of the championship match to win the tournament at 138 pounds. He [...]
Granville, Whitehall schools receive failing grade
By Jaime Thomas and Derek Liebig A Buffalo business journal has ranked Granville and Whitehall school districts as among the poorest performing districts in Washington County, and in the bottom 10 to 20 percent in upstate New York. Buffalo Business First ranked 430 school districts across 48 counties in upstate New York (districts in New [...]
Baseball wins final game
The Whitehall boy’s baseball team wrapped up its regular season with a dominating win over Hadley-Luzerne last Thursday. The Railroaders pounded out 21 hits en route to a 21-6 victory. Justin Hoagland recorded five hits, including two doubles, and drove in three runs. Brett Christian drove in four runs and scored four times, Paxton DeLorme [...]
State issues school test scores: Whitehall doing well in middle school, lagging elsewhere
Middle school students in the Whitehall School district are outperforming their peers statewide and more students are graduating but elementary and high school students continue to score lower than their peers across the state. The percentage of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students in the Whitehall School district who are meeting the basic standards on state [...]
English Honor Society students “Read for the Record”
Whitehallpre-kindergarten and kindergarten students joined five million of their peers in attempting to set a rather lofty record last week. Members of the two elementary school classes were part of the Read for the Record event, where students around the country all read from the book “Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anne Dewdney, on the [...]
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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 [...]