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Third-period onslaught ends Big Green’s playoff run

03-24-2024 11:35 AM

By TRIS WYKES

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — “Sweet Caroline” played Friday between the second and third periods of the Dartmouth College men’s hockey team’s ECAC tournament semifinal against Cornell. Many in the seats waved illuminated phones to the iconic Neil Diamond song...


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Snow delays opening of Hartland shooting range

03-25-2024 4:23 PM

HARTLAND – The opening of the Hammond Cove Shooting Range has been delayed to April 11 due to snow from the late March storm, according to a release from the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.The shooting range is monitored by the department, and...


Snowmaking at Oak Hill ‘game-changer’ for skiers

03-22-2024 8:00 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — New Hampshire had its warmest winter on record this year, but cross-country skiers in the Upper Valley have enjoyed snow-covered trails into March thanks to recent upgrades at the Oak Hill Outdoor Center.For the first time in its history,...


Goaltender stands tall for Big Green

03-21-2024 6:27 PM

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — Clint Mylymok, general manager of the Maryland Black Bears, quietly assessed the dozens of teenagers milling about before his junior hockey team’s tryout camp during the spring of 2019. Most were specifically invited or already signed,...


Nordic skiing: Team New Hampshire bests Vermont, wins Eastern High School Championships for first time in nearly three decades

03-20-2024 10:24 AM

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

For the first time since 1995, Team New Hampshire took home the Eastern High School Championships title at the Holderness School on Sunday. The Nordic skiing competition features up to the top 48 skiers (24 boys and 24 girls) from each of New...


Kenyon: Karp’s Klassic youth basketball tournament resumes in new location

03-19-2024 4:45 PM

By JIM KENYON

It’s mud season and Paul Karp is back where he belongs: In the far corner of a basketball gym with his “bible,” watching hundreds of kids play in the end-of-winter recreational tournament that bears his name. After a two-year hiatus due to the...


Dartmouth refuses to work with basketball players’ union

03-18-2024 9:49 PM

HANOVER — Dartmouth College will not enter into collective bargaining with the union its men’s basketball players voted to join earlier this month, the school said Monday in a move that could send the case to federal court.In a statement announcing...


Hartland’s Hammond Cove Shooting Range to open April 1

03-18-2024 3:05 PM

HARTLAND — The Hammond Cove Shooting Range is set to reopen on April 1 after its closure for the winter season.The range, which includes a six-port, 100-yard rifle range and a pistol bench, operates under rules set by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife...


Big Green hockey in conference semifinal

03-17-2024 3:55 PM

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — It was a little like the old days in Thompson Arena on Saturday.The fourth-seeded Dartmouth College men’s hockey team defeated sixth-seeded Union, 4-2, sweeping the Garnet Chargers in an ECAC best-of-three quarterfinal series. It was the Big...


Dartmouth’s third-line center makes a difference on the ice and in the locker room

03-15-2024 8:01 PM

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — He’s not the ECAC hockey conference’s leading goal-scorer. That’s Luke Haymes.Nor is he the 6-foot-8 goaltender who’s stopped more than 90% of the shots he’s faced. That’s Cooper Black.Dartmouth College’s Steven Townley is merely a humble...


NLRB certifies union to represent Dartmouth basketball players

03-15-2024 9:16 AM

BOSTON — The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday certified a union to represent Dartmouth men’s basketball players after the deadline passed for the school to object to the election.Big Green players voted 13-2 on March 5 to join the Service...


Hanover boys basketball turnaround ends with runner-up finish

03-11-2024 7:31 PM

By TRIS WYKES

DURHAM, N.H. — One of the greatest turnarounds in Upper Valley sports history came up short of a fairy-tale ending Sunday when the Hanover High boys basketball team fell to Pelham, 51-41, in the NHIAA Division II final at UNH’s Lundholm Gymnasium.The...


Bears author storybook ending in NHIAA D-I title game

03-10-2024 8:31 PM

By TRIS WYKES

MANCHESTER — The story is told by Hanover High girls hockey coach John Dodds only if his team reaches the NHIAA final and at the conclusion of its last practice before the big game.The tale describes how Dodds’ 1973 Hanover boys hockey team used an...


Hazen’s second-half surge denies Windsor girls in D-III final

03-10-2024 7:50 PM

By BEN HOOKE

There was no three-peat for the Windsor High girls basketball team.The second-seeded defending VPA Division III champions fought valiantly for a half but ultimately found themselves outmatched by a sizzling shooting performance by the top-seeded Hazen...


A Life: Craig ‘CJ’ John Lanzim ‘was always upbeat and positive’

03-10-2024 6:01 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

PLAINFIELD — Craig John Lanzim, or “C.J.” as he was known, was a role model to many for how to treat others. He had a gift for making people feel valued, whether a close friend or a stranger. He accepted others as they were and exhibited patience and...


White River Valley loses in semi-finals

03-08-2024 6:46 PM

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — Two teams of Wildcats clashed in girls basketball Thursday night at the Barre Auditorium. Sadly for Upper Valley fans, the wrong bunch of Felis Silvestris prevailed in the Vermont Division III quarterfinals.Top-seeded Hazen’s 70-49 defeat...


Nonprofit community ski hill sees one of the worst seasons in memory

03-08-2024 6:33 PM

By FRANCES MIZE

EAST CORINTH — A few weeks ago, Ben Nalette, a freshman alpine skier at Thetford Academy, was using rub-on hard wax to try to coax his skis into better shape for the dicey cover at Northeast Slopes.Rain had made the main face of the hill slick with...


Windsor 46, Richford 33: No. 2 to face No. 1 Hazen in Saturday’s final

03-08-2024 5:41 PM

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — Saturday’s Vermont Division III girls basketball title game at the Barre Auditorium will be a clash of past and recent champions when Windsor High and Hazen meet at 7:30 p.m.The second-seeded Yellowjackets, who coolly dispatched...


Hanover’s Oak Hill hosts ski championships

03-07-2024 10:01 PM

Due to the lack of snow and with temperatures approaching 50 degrees on Wednesday, the NHIAA’s Nordic skiing state championships for Divisions I and II were moved from the White Mountains to the 3.8K course of man-made snow at Hanover’s Oak...


Season ends in semifinals for Hanover boys hockey

03-07-2024 1:56 PM

MANCHESTER — The fifth-seeded Hanover High boys hockey team lost, 5-1, to top-seeded Windham during an NHIAA Division I semifinal on Wednesday at J.F.K Arena.“Windham showed why they are number one,” said Hanover coach Dick Dodds. “They took advantage...



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