Sentinel-Times
By CARRIE REED
December 27, 2024
By Doug La Rocque NYVT Media QUEENSBURY – As many have suspected, NYS Senator Dan Stec has officially entered the race to replace 21st District Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, once she is confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become the Ambassador to United Nations. Stec is ...
GRANVILLE - At press time, NYVT Media has learned Big Lots, Inc., is working toward closing all its remaining stores. The company has announced that it does not anticipate completing its previously announced asset purchase agreement with Nexus Capital Management, though it continues to work ...
Granville, NY - William (Bill) R. LaPoint, age 88 passed peacefully on Sunday, December 15th, 2024 surrounded by his family, after a short illness.Bill was born on June 18th, 1936 in Ludlow, VT the son of the late Carlyle LaPoint and Irene Cutler.On September 24th 1966, he married the love of his ...
2/4/1951 - 12/7/2024 In loving memory of Annamarie Winchell who left us too soon.Annamarie was an exceptionally loving and kind person. A devoted mother, grandmother, wife, sister, aunt, and daughter. You were blessed if she was a part of your life. Her smile would light up a room and her ...
By Erik PekarStudents of the Granville High School presented a play, which was reported in the Dec. 19, 1924 issue of the Granville Sentinel: "The high school play, 'Miss Bob White', presented at the Pember theatre Monday and Tuesday nights drew capacity houses each evening and was a huge success.
By Brett Porter NYVT Media The Granville Town Board held its last meeting of the year on Dec. 12, taking less than a half hour to do some light housekeeping and carried motion after motion. Nothing out of the ordinary was brought up or /contested. High points consisted of the town ...
Brett Porter NYVT Media Five employees of Granville’s largest employer are celebrating 30 years with the company. Mary Vanderminden, Chris Ettori, Sylvia May, Scott McCullen and Lance Stevens have all spent more than three decades working for Telescope Casual Furniture. In a rough ...
Granville- Florina P. Martindale passed away peacefully at home on December 13, 2024.She was the daughter of Paul and Ruth (Burch) Bennett. She was a beloved sister, beloved mother of Jessie, Carla and Frank Martindale and a beloved grandmother, great grandmother and friend.She had many memories ...
Margaret Lynn Jones, 76, passed away on Monday, December 16, 2024, at the Washington Center Nursing Home following a long battle with dementia.Born on November 26, 1948, in Granville, New York, to John and Elsie McGraw, Lynn was the eldest of fourteen. She married Edwin “Ted” Jones, now deceased, ...
By Catherine M. Oliverio NYVT Media It was a Saturday night like no other this year in Granville. The farm came to town in a big way as it has for many years now. We are talking about the 7th annual version of the Granville Lighted Tractor parade. Rolling off from Telescope Casual ...
The Boil Water Order has been lifted immediately; however, the State of Emergency for the Village of Whitehall remains in effect. Water testing within the Village’s drinking water system over the past two days has resulted in the lifting of the boil water order. Residents can return to ...
Overnight reports are that the Village’s water system appears to be stabilizing but this is subject to change at any time. The Village reiterates that the Village remains in a water deficit whereby the Village is pumping water from below the maximum height of the Village’s intake pipe. The Village ...
On Friday afternoon, Dec. 13, the mayor released the following statement of the village's water crisis. The circumstances of the past week with the Village of Whitehall’s drinking water system were not the result of action or inaction by any one person. Rather, the water emergency was the ...
By EJ Conzola II NYVT Media WHITEHALL – Municipal water service was restored to much of the village Thursday, although the state of emergency declared Sunday and a boil-water advisory and conservation restrictions remain in effect. A warming center with bathroom facilities established in ...
By EJ Conzola II NYVT Media WHITEHALL – Steady rain dropped more than an inch of water on the area Wednesday, melting the snow that has covered the ground since Thanksgiving and prompting the National Weather Service to issue a flood watch alert for Vermont and parts of New York – including ...
To kick off the holiday season on Nov. 25, the Slate Valley Center on State Route 40 in Granville brought back a major regional favorite, Elvis impersonator Bruce Stewart and his energetic wife Blaze to the 88-bed skilled nursing facility for the annual Elvis Christmas Show. They entertained ...
The Slate Valley Masonic Center in Granville became the new home of Hudson Valley 42, Order of the Rainbow for Girls, on Saturday. Rainbow is an international organization whose lessons encourage its members to be strong in spirit and kind in heart, respectful toward nature and giving toward ...
The Granville Area Chorus will present its Christmas concert on Friday, Dec. 20, at 7 p.m. in the South Granville Congregational Church. The concert will be directed by Crystal Everdyke and Kenneth Schenk, and accompanied by Virginia Shedd. The 30-member group will begin the performance with ...
By Erik PekarA few weeks ago, in "Granville Then and Now" of Nov. 21, 2024, we quoted a news item from the same day issue of the Granville Sentinel in 1924 on a forthcoming basketball game between a Middle Granville team and a team from Salem. There was no follow-up report regarding that game in ...
By Brett Potter The Granville Village Board’s last meeting of the year took place on Dec 2 and in the short time the meeting ran, Mayor Paul Labas and the board put a bow on the talking points of 2024. The board voted unanimously to institute a gross utilities tax law, which places a tax on ...
By Brett Porter NYVT Media GRANVILLE - Hundreds of man-hours and more than 500,000 lights later, the village of Granville was ready to reign in the holiday season. The seventh annual Christmas tree lighting took place in the village Saturday Dec 7. Hundreds of people came out to see Santa ...
By Catherine M. Oliverio NYVT Media SOUTH GRANVILLE – A new face will arrive at South Granville Congregational Church in April when the church welcomes Pastor Pamela Bolton. The effective date is April, Bolton said, because “I want to give enough notice to First Baptist in Whitehall,” ...
By Brett Porter NYVT Media Granville Mayor Paul Labas presented certificates of recognition of public service to Deputy Mayor Gordon Smith Jr. and Police Chief Ernest Bassett Jr. at a village board meeting Dec. 2. The certificates come from the New York State Conference of Mayors and ...
By EJ Conzola II NYVT Media WHITEHALL – The sidewalks along Williams Street were almost deserted, even though the Whitehall Christmas parade had stepped off just a block away 20 minutes early and was even then nearing the turn that would take it down the street on is way back to Riverside ...
WHITEHALL –What’s cooler than a snowplow in winter? A snowplow with a name chosen by students. Whitehall Elementary School, in partnership with the Whitehall town highway department and the village department of public works, has announced the return of the beloved" Name the Snow Plow" project ...
By EJ Conzola II NYVT Media WHITEHALL – Water is slowly refilling the village water system, but strict conservation measures are still in effect and any water drawn from the system should be boiled for at least one minute before use. A pump placed in the village reservoir in Pine Lake has ...
By Doug La Rocque and EJ Conzola II NYVT Media WHITEHALL – With the state of emergency still in place and almost all water usage curtailed, the water levels in the Village of Whitehall’s water storage tank are creeping back up, but Mayor Francis “Fra” Putorti makes it clear, “we are not out ...
By EJ Conzola II NYVT Media WHITEHALL – Water service has started to resume after the village system was shut down Sunday night, but the state of emergency remains in effect, with severe limitations on water use. The storage tank at the village water treatment facility was refilling ...
By EJ Conzola II NYVT Media WHITEHALL – Village officials hope a contractor will be able to install a pump in Pine Lake overnight that will send water flowing into the line feeding the village water system by Tuesday morning. Village officials shut down the water system Sunday night and ...
The village is handing out free bottled water at the Whitehall Volunteer Fire Department at 161 Main St., while the village water system is shut down because of extremely low water levels. Mayor Francis (Fra) Putorti told NYVT Media he is working with the Washington County Department of Public ...