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By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — There was once this Gerry Cheevers chap. He was a goaltender who backstopped the NHL’s Boston Bruins to a pair of Stanley Cups. “Cheesie” became New England sports royalty en route to 1985 induction in his sport’s Hall of Fame.Friday, on a...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Entering the 2021 season, the Hartford High football team had quite the competition on its hands for the starting quarterback spot.Senior Colin Vielleux, who had spent the previous fall as the backup to the since-graduated Cole Jasmin in the...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

CLAREMONT — Patty Deschaine knew that when the time came for her to step down as Stevens High field hockey head coach, she would have a succession plan in place.For the last four seasons of her 20-year run leading the Cardinals, Deschaine has had...

By JIM KENYON

When Lebanon High School teachers and administrators gathered in June to recognize their colleagues who were retiring or leaving for new jobs, one person was conspicuous in his absence.Kieth Matte, who spent 24 years at Lebanon High as a physics...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

When Greg Balch was growing up in Windsor, the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl was the biggest event of the summer.The annual football game between top just-graduated high school seniors in Vermont and New Hampshire was held at Dartmouth College back then, so...

WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Union High School is serving as a location for people affected by last week’s flooding to receive assistance, according to Vermont Emergency Management.The site is open Tuesday through Thursday, July 18-20, from 9 a.m. to 5...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

HANOVER — Shannon Hadlock was a center back for the White River Valley girls soccer team. It was as simple as that.The senior anchored the Wildcats’ strong defense last fall, a unit that allowed just nine goals in 16 games. But on the Vermont team for...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Six freshly graduated Upper Valley high school senior soccer players will take the field at Hanover High on Saturday for the Lions Twin State Cup games. The event is now in its 48th year and pits top seniors from New Hampshire and Vermont whose high...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Gordie Barnaby watched the White River Valley girls basketball team play three or four times last winter and remembered thinking to himself that the Wildcats would be a fun group to coach.Barnaby coached for six years at The Sharon Academy and nine...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Until this February, Josh Park was living a normal teenage life.A junior on the Mascoma High track team, Park was unanimously voted the boys’ team captain for the winter indoor season, even though he takes most of his classes online and only attends...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Woodstock High has promoted from within to fill its boys basketball head coaching vacancy, naming Scott Brooks to the position after Steve Landon left to take over the girls’ team at Hartford.Brooks, who came on last winter as the Wasps’ junior...

BURLINGTON — Rivendell Academy freshman Sydney Schoenbeck finished fourth, Hartford junior Jordan Davis finished fifth and the Thetford Academy girls were second in the team competition, finishing only behind Essex, the Division I state champion in...

By JIM KENYON

An 18-year-old Pennie Armstrong had just started training to become a nurse in the early 1960s when she contracted polio, even though she’d been vaccinated against the debilitating, life-threatening virus.Armstrong spent the next few months at the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — After spending much of their high school experience navigating the trials and tribulations of hybrid learning, mask-wearing and social distancing, members of the Hartford Class of 2023 were grateful to end their final year on a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SOUTH ROYALTON — Saturday’s morning rain may not have seemed like the happiest time in which to hold an outdoor high school graduation ceremony, but the four-post tent erected on the South Royalton green to keep the 42 graduating seniors of White...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

A visible reminder of Steve Landon’s first stint coaching the Hartford High girls basketball team hangs on the wall at Hanley Gym.In 2012, his sixth season with the Hurricanes, Landon led Hartford to its only state championship in program history....

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Newport Class of 2023 waited out a day of rain for graduation and was rewarded with sunny skies to celebrate their achievement before family and friends on the high school football field on Thursday evening.The ceremony’s speakers...

By LAURA KOES

HANOVER — Hanover High School’s girls crew team left Sunday for England to compete against 25 other teams from the United States, the United Kingdom and other international teams. This is the first time a Hanover rowing team has made the trip to the...

BANGOR, Maine — Lebanon High senior Birhanu Harriman finished fourth in the 3,200-meter race and Anita Miller of White River Valley finished seventh in the 1,600 to highlight Upper Valley athletes’ performances at the New England Track and Field...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

CASTLETON, Vt. — Chuck Simmons was reluctant to label his Oxbow High softball program a dynasty when the Olympians won their second straight Vermont Division III state championship last spring.After Oxbow completed a perfect season with a third...