The heat wave which unofficially continues with the still-steamy temperatures and high humidity of late has been pushing people into the Mettowee River. At the village access points people could be seen swimming at various times during the days and evenings. Those points are: near the new scout trail in the Mettowee Park off of Church Street; the bend of the river just up from the Church Street Bridge and down near the Little League I also heard under the pedestrian bridge is popular.
Speaking of the ‘o’ spelling of the river…I hear from Pawlet librarian Beth Kashner alternate theories for the ‘a’
Namely citing USGS resources which as you might recall were apparently transcribed in error ‘way back when’ according to the late great Morris Rote-Rosen. I didn’t include that in the article because one: I thought it was about the spelling for Granville not across the border. The folks in Vermont can spell it any way they want. And two: I didn’t want to muddy the water and confuse the issue. We (re) published the article in the Sentinel, I’ll have to find it and post it here as well.
Summer baseball/softball is underway and it is harder than ever to keep track of what is going on around the region. Granville kids are scattered across diamonds and teams all over the place, sometimes more than one team. Tough to keep up with, but I’m planning to get after that closer in the future. In that vein, if you have results or game reports please send them in. They don’t need to be terribly detailed, just a short paragraph with some details and - of course, the result.
