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By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

SOUTH ROYALTON — The outfield fence at the White River Valley baseball field needed a slight makeover before this season.Markers honoring state championships won by both WRV and its predecessor, South Royalton High, hang on the wall near the right...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WEST CANAAN — Christine Labore is up at 5 a.m. most weekdays and is out the door by 6. On some days with away games, she doesn’t get home until close to midnight.A sixth grade teacher at Indian River Middle School who is in her first season as the...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

BRADFORD, Vt. — Great programs, even championship programs, can always keep getting better.The University of Oklahoma softball team has won the last two national titles with a combined 115-7 record, but the Sooners have taken it to another level this...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

THETFORD — Michelle Morgan realized this season could be different for the Thetford Academy softball team early on. The second-year head coach’s players are now starting to realize it as well.With seven sophomores, six of whom played on the varsity...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

NEWPORT — Matthew Robbins has always wanted to be a high school baseball head coach.A former four-year starting first baseman at Sunapee High, Robbins paid his dues over several years coaching Cal Ripken baseball and has also coached his children at...

CLAREMONT — A 64-year-old Charlestown woman has been charged with criminal threatening with a deadly weapon for allegedly using a gun to threaten another woman in the parking lot of Walmart in Claremont on Tuesday.Almeda Sprinkle also has been charged...

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...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

SHARON — It hasn’t been long since ultimate, formerly known as Ultimate Frisbee, was the most popular sport at The Sharon Academy.The school first offered ultimate in 2011 as a club sport, and after the Vermont Principals’ Association made the Green...

CLAREMONT — A Claremont man who has previously been convicted of bank robbery is being held in preventive detention following his arrest on charges of robbing a Claremont gas station and convenience store at knifepoint last month.James Oberfeldt, 39,...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

HANOVER — Kelly Finn missed the sport she’d grown up with.Finn was a tennis player growing up in Wichita Falls, Texas, and for 2½ years at Southwestern University, near Austin. But by the time she arrived at UC Davis to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy,...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

LEBANON — Morgan Kantor has been running on the track at Lebanon High since the age of 8. She’s been one of the Raiders’ top sprinters throughout her time with the high school team.But the old track at Lebanon, which was only about half as thick as a...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

NORWICH — Megan Sobel knows as well as anyone that softball is not a marquee sport at Hanover High.Since becoming the school’s athletic director in 2018, Sobel has overseen championship teams in soccer, hockey, tennis and much more. The softball...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

LEBANON — A few short months ago, Lebanon High was facing the distinct possibility of a second consecutive season without a varsity girls tennis team.Head coach Rob Johnstone was in Dubai last spring, where his wife is working at an American school,...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

HANOVER — If the Dartmouth College softball team’s dugout looks unusually empty when the Big Green are on the field, that’s because it is.With just 14 players on its roster, Dartmouth is easily the smallest team in the Ivy League, with none of the...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WEST CANAAN — Britt Lewis knows what high school sports can mean to a community. He is from Texas, after all.But Lewis, Mascoma High’s fourth head baseball coach in the last three years, knows academics come first and that strong athletics programs...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

The Hanover High girls tennis team was supposed to open the home portion of its 2023 schedule with a highly anticipated rematch of last year’s NHIAA Division I quarterfinal against Bedford on last Friday. But because the Bears’ home courts at Storrs...

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...

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...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

HANOVER — Following a season in which the Dartmouth College baseball team won six of its seven Ivy League series and finished in third place, the Big Green were pegged for the No. 3 spot again in the 2023 preseason poll and even received a first-place...

By ALEX HANSON

James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...