Girl Scouts help food pantries Community service is a large part of scouting and the combined Granville Whitehall Girl Scout troop showed that off May 21 as they tried once again to ‘stuff-a-bus.’ In its fourth year, after starting in 2008, the Girl Scouts doggedly pursue their goal of filling up a full-sized 60-passenger [...]
Golden ‘Girls’
Jenna Brown, Lauren Edwards and Shelley Fairbanks reached the pinnacle of Girl Scouting Sunday as the trio received the Girl Scout Gold Award. The ceremony looked back at the 13 years building up to the event as the trio receiving the award begins to look forward to the next stage of their lives post high [...]
Baseball has split for week
The Whitehall baseball team alternated wins and loses, splitting four games last week. The team lost a pair of league contests against Warrensburg and Fort Ann and defeated Bolton and non-league opponent Poultney. The Railroaders opened Adirondack League play with an 8-7 come from behind win over the Bolton Eagles last Tuesday. The game was [...]
Whitehall Gives Fort Ann a Game
What a difference a year makes. The Whitehall baseball team opened its season last Thursday with a hard fought 4-3 loss to defending state champion Fort Ann. Whitehall was paced by junior Brett Christian who pitched a complete game, allowing one earned run on six hits, while fanning seven batters. Fort Ann scratched across the [...]
Cole M. Rocque, 20
WHITEHALL Cole M. Rocque, 20, of County Route 12, passed away unexpectedly on March 6, 2011. Born on August 20, 1990 in Glens Falls, he was the son of Joyce and Tobe Corcoran and Matthew Rocque and Becky McKee. He was a 2008 graduate of Whitehall High School where he graduated with a Advanced Regents [...]
No contested races in March election
The question of a contested election for the village of Granville came down to the wire this week. With days to go to the deadline, four candidates declared their intentions and made the necessary arrangements to make the ballot for the village election March 15. Candidates needed to pick up an official petition and gather [...]
Railroader Preview: Boys basketball
The Whitehall varsity boys basketball program will look to use its athletic ability to compete in the 2010-11 Adirondack League. “We will be very athletic,” said head coach Keith Redmond. “We will have bench depth and the ability to go 9-10 deep in a game, which should help the fatigue factor late in games.” The [...]
Franklin Ferguson, 75
Franklin Ferguson passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center. Frank was born on Jan. 30, 1934, in Hampton, the son of Edward and Rose (Crapeau) Ferguson. Frank had been employed at Telescope Casual Furniture for 32 years in the maintenance department. He was a veteran of the [...]
Students prepare for Junior Miss Pagent
Pizza is the international food of fellowship. As participants in the 2009 Whitehall Junior Miss Scholarship Program joined with their “Little Sisters” from the fifth grade in a night of pizza and fun, all were preparing for the 48th annual program, set for Saturday, Nov. 7, at 6:30 p.m. in the Whitehall Junior/Senior High School [...]





