Top Stories for Tuesday October 21, 2008

Rebels Take Tigers with Second Half Comeback 22-16
By Mike Cameron
    It would be good policy not to mention a particular call in last year’s playoff game between the Tigers and South Burlington Rebels.  You might just be in a heated debate.   Most Tiger fans feel that a “late whistle” late in that game could very well have cost them a shot at another state Division 1 Title. It was a nip-and-tuck battle right down to the wire with the Rebels knocking the Tigers out of the title tilt and ending their perfect season.
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Addison County has a new World Champion: New Haven Equestrian and Her Horse Earn Two World Championships
By Cookie Steponaitis
   When Hailey Perlee and her horse Howard left Vermont for the World Championships in Oklahoma, both were excited. Howard had never been transported that far and was a bit cantankerous and Hailey had never flown on an airplane. Put together, the ride out there seemed much more daunting for the pair than actually competing. Hailey commented that there was a lot of “arm squeezing and oh, my god moments when taking off and landing. I went out there to gain experience and to put Howard and myself in a new level of competition. We really wanted to win a ribbon of some kind.”
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Around And About Addison County-Granville
By M. Stuart Parks
    Granville was not always Granville.  It was chartered August 8, 1781 by Governor Thomas Chittenden and was named Kingston because it was granted to Reuben King and six members of his family along with fifty plus other grantees.  The first proprietors’ meeting was held in the spring of 1783 at Windsor where Reuben King was elected Proprietors Clerk.  The following year, 1784, the proprietors offered one hundred acres of land to any woman willing to come to Kingston with her family and make a permanent settlement.  Mrs. Daniel King was the first to accept this offer and her husband Daniel became the first Justice of the Peace.  Daniel King also built the first sawmill and gristmill for which he received four one hundred acre lots.  The first child born in town was their son, Henry King.
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