By Jaime Thomas Residents came out to honor those who have served our country and to enjoy unseasonably warm weather on Veterans Day. Old and young alike enjoyed a parade down Main Street that ended in Veterans Park. Among other groups there were Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, a marching band and veterans marching in the [...]
Young tennis team looking to future
A young and inexperienced Whitehall tennis team will look for a way to compete in a tough league while building for the future. “We are a very young team in a tough league,” said head coach Charlie Bascue. “I’m working with them for the future.” Gone are Trey [...]
Blues skies for Little League start
Warm weather, crowds greet opening day of Little League The kickoff to the 2011 Little League featured endings and beginnings under bright sunshine on what might have been the nicest day of the year thus far Sunday. Retiring Little League President Ernie Bassett received a rousing round of applause as he was recognized [...]
Jordan, Little kick off Maple Fest
Area representatives kicked off the celebration of all things maple in Middle Granville at Grottoli’s Maple Friday afternoon with the ceremonial tapping of the first maple tree. The 16th annual maple weekend(s) began with Sen. Betty Little and Assemblyman Tony Jordan putting an old style tap into a tree behind the sugarhouse. “I’m just relived [...]
Reminder: Daylight savings time starts Sunday
Daylight savings time begins Sunday, March 13 at 2 a.m. Spring forward, Granville. As sure a sign of spring as the robins frozen to the branches and the icebergs at the end of the driveways dropping below six feet tall – daylight savings time has begun. The key part of the saying is ‘orward’ so [...]
Winter storm pushes many to the edge (of the snowbank)
Phil Juckett feels your pain. “I hate to do that,” he said looking down from the driver’s seat of one of the village’s ‘wing’ plow trucks. Juckett just filled in the entry to yet another driveway which has already been shoveled of snow. Residents, some of them still shoveling or using the snow blower [...]






