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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...

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 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 BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

BRADFORD, Vt. — Give the Oxbow High softball team an inch, and the Olympians will take a mile.Considering the amount of hard contact Oxbow made in Saturday’s VPA Division III quarterfinal against Windsor, the Yellowjackets played a mostly clean game....

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WINDSOR — Mike Lopez swears it doesn’t hurt him to run, no matter how uncomfortable it may look.Considering Lopez was learning how to walk again at this time last year, running without pain is remarkable progress – and so is suiting up for baseball.A...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — After suffering a 6-3 loss to visiting Springfield in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Maxfield Sports Complex, the Hartford High softball team came roaring back for an 18-3 victory in the nightcap, scoring 11 runs...

COLCHESTER, Vt. — The dominant Hartford High girls lacrosse team etched another in the win column on Tuesday afternoon, beating host Colchester by a 17-2 final score.Audrey Rupp had four goals and three assists for the Hurricanes (8-0), who built an...

ENOSBURG FALLS, VT — The Oxbow High softball team continued to roll as the top-ranked team in VPA Division III with a 7-0 win over previously unbeaten Enosburg Falls.Pitcher Anastase Bourgeois shut down the Hornets, allowing just two hits and striking...

PLAISTOW, N.H. — It was a slow start for the Hanover High girls lacrosse team, which found itself down by four goals early to Timberlane before rallying to lead by five at halftime and going on to win, 19-10.Maggie Higgins had five goals and three...

SOUTH ROYALTON — Boone Fahey tossed a gem for the Thetford Academy baseball team on Tuesday, leading the visiting Panthers over White River Valley, 9-2.Fahey went all seven innings for Thetford, striking out 13 while allowing four hits and zero earned...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Joseph Barwood scored five goals and became the Hartford High boys lacrosse program’s all-time leading goal scorer with 150 as the Hurricanes routed Otter Valley, 17-1.Barwood surpassed Reece Thompson, a 2019 graduate, who still...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION – The Hartford High baseball team overcame an early three-run deficit to tie the game in the fourth inning and take the lead for good in the fifth on a two-out triple by Christian Hathorn, who later scored on a throwing error in a...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — That’s three wins in a row to open the season for the White River Valley baseball team. The Wildcats used a strong performance by pitcher Robby McShinsky to beat host Springfield, 11-3, on Tuesday.McShinsky went the first 6 ⅔...

SOUTH ROYALTON — Brayden Russ collected four hits and scored three runs to lead the White River Valley baseball team to a 9-4 win over Leland & Gray on Saturday.The Wildcats plated six runs in the fifth inning to break the game open.On the mound,...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

THETFORD — Coming off three straight trips to at least the VPA Division III semifinals, the Thetford Academy baseball team looked every bit the part of a unit ready to make it four in a row in Saturday’s season opener.The Panthers scored 10 runs over...

HOPKINTON, N.H. — In his first game as Newport High baseball coach, Matt Robbins is in the win column as the Tigers defeated Hopkinton on Wednesday, 13-9.Senior Karter Pollari was 4-for-4 with a triple and a double and also drew a walk. Shortstop Owen...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WINDSOR — Shortly after learning that Wendy Moody would be the varsity head coach for Windsor High softball this spring, Sydney Perry walked into her office with a fun suggestion.“I was like, ‘Wendy, I think we should have walk-up songs,’ ” Perry...

ORFORD — A brilliant spring afternoon on Tuesday was the stage for a season-opening clash between the White River Valley and Rivendell baseball teams. The Wildcats got the better of the host Raptors, 8-0, on the strength of a combined two-hitter by...

WINDSOR — Windsor High School 10th grader Hudson Ranney, right, reads a statement asking political leaders to take action to prevent gun violence before leading his Windsor High School classmates on a march through Windsor on Friday. The walkout was...

ORFORD — The Rivendell Academy boys basketball team will ride an 11-game winning streak to Barre Auditorium, as the Raptors punched their ticket to the VPA Division IV semifinals with a 65-45 victory over Leland & Gray on Sunday evening in a game that...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

BARRE, Vt. — The Windsor High girls basketball program just doesn’t do rebuilding years.After graduating their entire starting lineup from last year’s VPA Division III state champions, the 2022-23 Yellowjackets roster featured just two seniors and one...