Granville will get a bit of sprucing up just as soon as someone gets a small piece of free time to hang the four signs which have arrived to decorate the four entry ways into Granville the town board heard Thursday, Sept. 8. Supervisor Matt Hicks said the four ‘Welcome to Granville’ signs were purchased [...]
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Lights Week returns
Seven Years of Lights Tradition continues under the lights The tradition Granville athletes look forward to almost as much as homecoming returns for its seventh year from Sept. 19 – 23 – it’s time for Lights Week. Lights Week returns to Granville for the seventh time with games on four nights with a schedule [...]
Irene impacts procurement policy
The ripple effect of Tropical Storm Irene was still being felt in the Village of Granville Monday night as every action the village board took was somehow touched or impacted by the event. Due to substantial infrastructure damage in the village, mostly to the waste water treatment system, the village board passed a resolution to [...]
Leaf pick up different after Irene
Tropical Storm Irene’s impact will be felt into the fall as damage from the storm will impact the annual leaf collection service. The Granville Department of Public Works will collect leaves as they have in the past, but have been forced to mandate the leaves be bagged this year. Residents are asked to put leaves [...]
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 [...]
Canal corp. releases, then cleans flood debris
Several days after Tropical Storm Irene moved through the area, its effects were still being felt in Whitehall last week and over the weekend, but not by high water and downed trees, but scattered debris that found its way into local water ways causing concern for local business owners. The storm dropped upwards of several [...]
Local couple faces losses from flooding in Rutland
While most officials have agreed that Whitehall lucked out and avoided the worst of tropical storm Irene, one local couple wasn’t so fortunate. Tom and Heidi Rock lost thousands of dollars worth of equipment when their business, located in center Rutland, Vt., was inundated with flood waters. The couple owns and operates Rock Landscaping and [...]
West Pawlet auction promises excitement at noon Sunday
Auction fun in West Pawlet If you’ve never been, you need to go. There is nothing quite like the excitement of a live auction complete with an auctioneer working the crowd to get the blood pumping by combining shopping and gambling all in one. “Come on down to our auction. We’ll have fun, good food [...]
Sewer system takes major hit from Irene
The flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene damaged more than private property as public property from roads to sewer systems were impacted by the deluge. Town supervisor Matt Hicks said Cove Road was destroyed by flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene, but its repair was well down the list of priorities for the town. Although [...]
Businesses just recovering from damage
A number of area businesses took hard hits from Tropical Storm Irene suffering a broad range of degrees of damage from the minor to the extreme. At the Granville McDonald’s the clean up process began Monday morning bright and early. As the Indian River went back down below flood stage and slithered back across Route [...]
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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 [...]