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By TRIS WYKES

Pete DePalo spent his first 15 years living on Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, home of America’s first large-scale amusement park. His family moved to the Upper Valley and his life since has been filled with games.Soccer games....

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — Lea Perreard’s wrists are wrapped in bracelets. How many? The Hanover High sophomore isn’t sure, but 15 would be a solid guess.Rubber bracelets, woven bracelets, string bracelets with beads on them. It takes Perreard roughly five minutes to...

By TRIS WYKES

WINDSOR — How does Windsor High baseball coach Jamie Richardson keep his players emotionally afloat as they face their notoriously tough schedule each spring? “There are a lot of hugs and back rubs,” the veteran bench boss said.It worked last season,...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — A quick trip to the store wasn’t often possible with Chuck Hunnewell.Ubiquitous on the Upper Valley sports scene for more than 30 years, the longtime teacher and coach would be waylaid in Rich’s Department Store or Johnson’s Home Center on...

By FRANCES MIZE

LEBANON — A two-hour lockdown at Lebanon High School and Hanover Street School ended a little before 4:30 p.m. on Friday when police detained a man with four loaded weapons in his pickup truck parked in front of the schools.The 39-year-old Vershire...

By JIM KENYON

Within hours of two Dartmouth student-activists being arrested on Oct. 28 for refusing to leave a camping tent they had pitched on the lawn outside President Sian Leah Beilock’s office, Minnesota attorney Kira Kelley started getting phone calls, text...

By ALEX HANSON

HANOVER — During a rehearsal at Hanover High School a couple of weeks ago, a handful of young actors recited lines an Upper Valley audience wouldn’t expect to hear spoken on a high school stage.“That’s when I had my first panic attack.” “The scariest...

By TRIS WYKES

SOUTH POMFRET — Vermont’s best high school Alpine skiers met at Saskadena Six on Thursday. However, the conditions couldn’t have been much worse for the slalom race, the first of two qualifiers for the Eastern High School Championships, which will be...

Lebanon High’s Nordic skiing team usually has better luck holding snow on its Plainfield Elementary School course, but even the Raiders have been staring at barren land for most of the winter. That was until Sunday’s healthy snowfall, which made...

By JIM KENYON

When I met 16-year-old Hudson Ranney at the Boston Dreams coffee shop in Windsor, it was 10 in the morning and he was munching on a Moose Tracks ice cream cone while checking messages on his Apple Watch between bites.A stereotypical teen? No...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON —  All appeared lost for Lebanon High wrestler Abigail Stone on Saturday. The 120-pound grappler was taking a beating from Manchester West’s Samuel Cruz, the latter laying on crushing holds that caused Stone to grimace as if caught in an...

The Lebanon High wrestling team hit the mat on Wednesday evening, welcoming strong squads from Bow and John Stark to Lebanon High School.Stark handed the Raiders a 66-18 defeat in head-to-head competition. Lebanon picked up three victories by fall,...

WOODSVILLE — A man who attended Woodsville High School was killed as the result of a violent encounter with another individual in Manchester on Dec. 7, state authorities announced.Te Jay Thomas, 46, died as the result of “blunt force trauma to the...

By JIM KENYON

LEBANON — As an underclassman at Hanover High School, Chris Carroll was fairly certain when he got called to the associate principal’s office early one morning that he was in big trouble.Although it was almost 50 years ago, bringing a firearm to...

By TRIS WYKES

RUTLAND, Vt. — They embraced near the 40-yard line, father and son, coach and player.Hartford High’s Brayden Trombly, a senior quarterback mature beyond his years, was poised while sobbing. Hurricanes boss Matt Trombly consoled him, holding his boy...

RUTLAND — Utilizing punishing line play and a misdirection offense on Saturday, the Windsor High football team powered past Woodstock, 36-0, for its third consecutive Vermont Division III title.The Yellowjackets dominated from start to finish at...

By TRIS WYKES

When the Dartmouth College and Woodstock High football teams play crucial games today, their players will have prepared for them in one similar fashion. Both programs utilize Guardian Cap soft-shell helmet covers during practice.“I love them and I...

By TRIS WYKES

WINDSOR — On paper, Saturday’s Vermont Division III playoff quarterfinal field hockey contest between Windsor High and Lyndon appeared a fairly even matchup. However, the host Yellowjackets scored early and often en route to an 8-1 victory.Midfielder...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — Win and they’re in. That’s the playoff entry challenge facing Hanover High’s football players and coaches on Friday night at undefeated Pelham.Key to the Bears’ efforts will be sophomore Jaysen Oriol, 6-foot-2 and 250 pounds, whose...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSTOCK — The future of a science and math lab at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School is uncertain after an arbitrator found earlier this month that the person running the lab must be a school employee, not a contractor.Since 2017, the...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — Things are better these days around the Lebanon High football program. There are smiles and laughter and a sense of progress.Sure, the Raiders have dropped down to the junior varsity level for this season and perhaps beyond, but just about...