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When it comes to Upper Valley high school softball, one program stirs the proverbial championship drink.In three years under coach Chuck Simmons, Oxbow High has reeled off 49 wins in 53 games and raced relatively unimpeded to state honors each time....

ORFORD — In addition to rejecting the proposed school budget by a floor vote on Saturday, residents in the four-town Rivendell Interstate School District elected school board members and officers. In Australian balloting, Orford’s Charles Newton...

The arrival of the Upper Valley high school baseball season marks the return of one top-shelf rivalry (Thetford vs. White River Valley, last year’s VPA Division III title-game matchup) along with another roster (Hanover) good enough to hang some...

Articles of note: Voters in the four towns served by the Rivendell Interstate School District will decide whether to permanently move their annual meeting day from the evening of the third Thursday in March to the third Saturday in March. The article...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — The Rivendell School Board met Monday to delay the date of the district’s annual meeting, which had been improperly warned.Originally scheduled for March 23, the meeting will now take place on April 13 at 10 a.m. at Rivendell Academy in...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — Rivendell Academy’s principal and head of schools retired this week. After 14 years, Keri Gelenian’s last day on the job was Monday.The mid-year retirement comes amid turmoil in the small school community as the board considers plans for...

By BEN HOOKE

ORFORD — At small high schools across Vermont and New Hampshire, coaches can often be few and far between, and many of them have to stretch to help maintain active varsity and junior varsity teams at their schools.At Rivendell Academy, however, this...

By BEN HOOKE

CLAREMONT — All seemed to be going well for the Windsor High boys basketball team headed into halftime on Wednesday evening.But the Fall Mountain Wildcats clawed their way back in the second half of the opening game of the 2023 Connecticut River...

By BEN HOOKE

WINDSOR — In a game notable for its high-octane offense, it was defense that allowed the Windsor High boys basketball team to pull ahead of visiting Rivendell in the fourth quarter to earn a hard-fought 76-70 victory on Wednesday night.Noah Jenks led...

ORFORD — Rivendell Interstate School District seeks volunteers to serve as committee members as the district prepares to implement a three-year plan that will close one of its schools. At a November meeting, the Rivendell School Board approved a...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVERCoach: Dan O’Rourke (23)League: NHIAA Division IILast year: 15-5Returners: Seniors — Sydney McLaughlin (G), Elena Mierke (G), Nina Marshall (F), Bella Hunt (G), Erin Kirkpatrick (F); Juniors — Sophia Costa (G), Dylan Simpkins (G); Sophomore:...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVERCoach: Ben Davis (2)League: NHIAA Division IILast year: 5-13Returners: Seniors — Christian Blix (F), Freddie Mierke (F); Juniors — Dave Frechette (G), Beckett Sobel (G); Sophomores — Ryan McLaughlin (G), Roy Lucas (G), Jaysen Oriol (F), Allie...

By NICOLA SMITH

FAIRLEE — The Rivendell Interstate School District Board voted 6-2 last month to move forward with a plan from district administrators that would result in the closure of the Samuel Morey Elementary School in Fairlee. Two additional board members were...

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. — Play it again.The Hartford High and Woodstock High field hockey teams will meet for the VPA Division II championship for the second year in a row after posting back-to-back D-II semifinal victories on Tuesday at St. Johnsbury...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WEST FAIRLEE — In an effort to avoid another major school tax increase, the Rivendell Interstate School District is asking people in Orford, Fairlee, West Fairlee and Vershire to consider major school reconfigurations.“In general, we have a community...

Staff Reports

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Hanover High boys cross country team won the NHIAA Division II championship Saturday with four runners finishing in the top 10.The Hanover girls placed second with three runners in the top 10, led by sophomore Lea Perreard, who...

RUTLAND — The Thetford Academy boys cross country team claimed the Southern Vermont League A championship Friday at Northwood Park, placing three runners in the top seven.Ben Mattern won in 17 minutes, 4 seconds. Teammate Brady Sloop took third in...

Note: Our sports roundups depend on coaches or team personnel promptly reporting games to sports@vnews.com. If you don’t see your team’s game, please contact your coach or athletic director.BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — The Woodstock High girls soccer team...

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Note: Our sports roundups depend on coaches to promptly report results. If you don’t see your team’s game, please contact its coach or athletic director.THETFORD — Thetford Academy’s Ava Hayden finished 12th among nearly 400 girls runners Saturday at...

LEBANON — The Lebanon High and Hanover High field hockey teams staged a fabulous battle Friday, never mind that neither side scored in a 0-0 draw. For 70 minutes, the neighboring rivals threw everything they had at the other. The visiting Bears spent...

SHARON — Sharon Academy girls soccer coach Ben Diller worked much of the last year in administration for a Massachusetts club team but found it unpleasant.Sharon’s season thus far hasn’t been pretty, either. The hosts fell, 7-3, to Poultney on...