Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Alex Toth, of Bronxville, N.Y., plunges over a drop on the Mascoma River in Lebanon last week. Toth is a member of Dartmouth’s Ledyard Canoe Club, which will celebrate its Riverfest this weekend, with the 50th annual Mascoma …
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Lake Placid, n.y. — The Junior Marauders, a Squirt-level youth hockey team of players from the Hanover Hockey Association and Woodstock Youth Hockey Association, lived up to their nickname last weekend at the Cam-Am Challenge Cup, coming home …
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Lebanon — The Upper Valley Running Club is giving area runners a whole series of reasons to stay close to home. In its third year organizing group training runs and competing together, UVRC members have created a six-race …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
By Coleman Stokes Special to the Valley News For those of us who don’t ice fish, the best part of the year is coming. Fishing season opens Monday, which means that licensed anglers may now trod the banks …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
The snow kept falling on winter’s last day. Six inches of fresh powder waited for our skis to glide through as we eased into the wow in the pow gently and silently save for our spurts of joyous cries in the woods of Bushwacker. The draw of the …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Concord — New Hampshire’s six state hatcheries have close to 1 million catchable-size trout ready for this season, with trucks ready to start rolling. With cold, high waters from melting snow, it will be a few weeks before rivers and streams are at “fishable” levels. Most trout species …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Lebanon — A former Boston & Maine railway corridor, unused since the 1950s, has been stolen by underbrush and deep pockets of mud. Thin tree trunks have sprung from between the railroad ties. In the quieter parts of …
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Westminster, Vt. — Five members of the Northern Lights Gymnastics program came home as all-around state champions on Saturday and Sunday from the Vermont State Gymnastics Championships at Bellows Falls Union High School. Additionally, five NLG members will …
Monday, March 25, 2013
Enfield — The first Sunday of spring looked more like the last vestiges of winter yesterday as competitors on snowmobiles, motorbikes and four-wheelers spent the cloudy afternoon charging up the face of a mountain set to close for …
Monday, March 25, 2013
I met three wise men the other day. Well, actually, three wise young men. But age really doesn’t matter. Young or old, what matters most is what you do with your life. And these three young guys are …