Strong performances by Rebecca Lavin and Zach Diekel led the Whitehall boys’ and girls’ track teams to a pair of fifth-place finishes at last week’s Section II Class C sectionals held in Fort Plain. Diekel captured the boys’ shot put title and finished second in the discus, and Lavin turned in a second-place finish in [...]
Education goes on outside classroom: BOCES students work at town highway garage
School is a little bit more labor-intensive for Shan Beebe and Tyler Perry than for most students, and they wouldn’t have it any other way. While many of their peers are sitting in a classroom dissecting Shakespeare or calculating derivatives or integrals, the seniors at Whitehall High School [...]
Track teams get first wins
Whitehall’s boys and girls track teams picked up their first wins of the season, going 2-1 in a meet against Greenwich, Cambridge, and Waldorf on Tuesday afternoon. Dave Rich led the boys with four top-three finishes, including two wins, and Tyler Perry and Tyler Sweenor each added wins for Whitehall. Rich won the 110-meter hurdles [...]
Hoagland, Rich lead way for track squad
Josh Hoagland placed in three events, including winning the shot put, and Dave Rich won the 100-meter hurdles and the pole vault as Whitehall’s boys track team narrowly lost to Granville and Hoosic Valley Tuesday. Hoagland was second in the 100 and third in [...]
Individuals show strength for track team
Whitehall’s track team won four individual events and had a bevy of top-three finishes in its first meet of the season held on April 3 in Whitehall. Dave Rich, Zach Diekel, Caitlyn Sandford and Kassi VanGuilder all won events for Whitehall. Rich won the pole vault, clearing the [...]
Track team will rely on hard work, depth
The Whitehall varsity track team will rely on a strong work ethic and a potential-laden roster as it tries to continue the success from the past several years. Although the team lost three Wasaren League champions — Jared DuRusha (long jump, triple jump and 4×100 meter relay), Kelsie [...]
Ferguson leads the way
The Whitehall Cross Country team held a meet with North Warren and Hadley Luzerne at the Valley View Golf Course on Oct. 18 that served as a tune-up for the teams as they begin to prepare for the crucial end of the season meets. Sophomore PJ Ferguson won another race as he continues to [...]






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 [...]