Sports
Cross Vermont Trail expands into nearby communities with connector to Lamoille Valley Rail Trail
By K. FIEGENBAUM
Two trails run east-west across Vermont: the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, which runs from Swanton, Vt., to St. Johnsbury, Vt., entirely on a former rail bed, and the perhaps lesser-known, Cross Vermont Trail, which runs from Burlington through Montpelier to Wells River with just under half of the trail on off-road walking and biking paths.
Local Roundup: Lebanon hosts four-team track and field meet
Lebanon hosts four-team meet
Comment period opens for North Hartland recreation area master plan
By CLARE SHANAHAN
HARTLAND — Regulators are seeking public feedback on a 25-year plan that dictates how the North Hartland Lake recreation area can be used and its natural resources preserved.
Local Roundup: Diehn, Jukosky set Mascoma records at track and field meet
Track and field
As spring skiing season winds down, one NH ski area plans to spin its lift until May
By DAN TUOHY
The Red Sox season was already a dozen games deep when, on April 9, a small ski area in New Hampshire fired up its snowmaking guns to add to the snow base on its main slope.
Mascoma runner to race in the Boston Marathon days after turning 18
By PATRICK O’GRADY
From blue jeans and Crocs to the starting line of the 129th running of the Boston Marathon on Monday.
High school baseball: Hanover blanks Lebanon on chilly opener
By TRIS WYKES
NORWICH— Temperatures in the low 40s. Jarring bursts of wind. Sleet falling with a pitter-patter on spectators’ jackets and the aluminum bleachers before turning to rain.
NH announces delay for off highway recreational vehicles registration stickers
CONCORD — Off highway recreational vehicle owners hoping to register their vehicles for the 2025–2026 season will have to wait until the end of the month.
Local Roundup: Mascoma boys win track and field meet
Mascoma boys win Belmont meet
Top shelf in the NHL
Philadelphia’s Morgan Frost, right, scores against Washington goaltender Clay Stevenson (33) during an NHL preseason game in Washington last September. Stevenson, the former Dartmouth College goalie, was called up to the Capitals on Monday from their AHL affiliate, the Hershey Bears, for whom he has posted a 2.94 goals against average, a .888 save percentage, two shutouts and a 18-5-5 record this season. The Capitals — who have been without their No. 1 netminder, Logan Thompson, the last two weeks due to an upper-body injury — were to visit the N.Y. Islander on Tuesday night before closing the regular-season schedule at Pittsburgh on Thursday evening.
Crowded house
Czech Republic goaltender Michaela Hesova (1) battles for the puck with teammate DominikaLaskova (14) and the United States’ Taylor Heise (27) in an IIHF Women's World Hockey Championship group stage game on Friday in CeskeBudejovice, Czech Republic. A freshman netminder for Dartmouth College women’s hockey, Hesova made 44 saves in her international debut in spite of a 4-0 loss to the Americans.
Local Roundup: Hanover, Lebanon boys win tennis openers
Lebanon 9, Kennett 0
Newport welcomes opening of new community center
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — On a recent Sunday morning, a pickleball league had two games going at once in a 500-seat gymnasium, the centerpiece of the newly opened Newport Community Center on Meadow Road.
Hartford High receives recognition for inclusion efforts
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Rutland High may have bested Hartford on the court in a Unified basketball game on Tuesday, 42-39, but Hartford earned another prize.
Former Dartmouth ski team member dies in accident in California
By CLARE SHANAHAN
HANOVER — Former Dartmouth alpine ski champion Ellie Curtis is reported to have died in a ski accident at Palisades Tahoe resort in California on Saturday.
High school soccer: As Grabill heads to Sunapee, Richardson takes over Hanover vacancy
By TRISWYKES
Two of the region’s strongest high school soccer programs have new but familiar leadership.
Windsor’s Young extends success at Southern Maine
By TRIS WYKES
One thing’s certain about Janiah Young: She’s a winner.
College Notes: How Upper Valley high school grads did during winter sports season
By TRIS WYKES
A look at some of the Upper Valley residents who competed in collegiate varsity sports this winter:
Men’s lacrosse: Big Green finally holding serve in Ivy League
By TRIS WYKES
HANOVER – Spring weekends in Hanover mean an influx of late-model luxury vehicles rolling into the Scully-Fahey Field parking lot, their occupants headed to watch the Dartmouth College men’s lacrosse team tilt at the collective windmill of Ivy League opposition.
New Hampshire lawmakers target another source of PFAS: waxes used by skiers and snowboarders
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
New Hampshire’s ski slopes and lakes are among its iconic natural attractions. They also face contamination from “forever chemicals” present in some recreational activities.
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