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By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WINDSOR — Reese and Sydney Perry’s one-on-one driveway basketball games were intense, physical affairs.“We had a rule: That we played until one of us started bleeding or crying,” said Sydney Perry, the younger sister and a junior forward on the...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

LEBANON — Tim Kehoe was never one to relish the spotlight.The longtime Lebanon High girls basketball coach, who stepped down after the 2019-20 season to focus more on his family, was honored at Friday night’s game with the John Wooden Legacy Award....

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

CLAREMONT — Anyone walking into Frederick W. Carr Gymnasium at Stevens High on Wednesday evening could make no mistake about who the man of the hour was.Colby Shepard, a Stevens senior, has been wrestling since he was in second grade, through the...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Charlotte Jasmin started practicing with the Hartford High girls basketball program when she was in fourth grade.The opportunity is open to all young girls in the school district to generate interest in the sport and help feed...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

HANOVER — All it took was Dartmouth’s best big man getting into foul trouble for Cornell to change its plan of attack.The Big Green men’s basketball team trailed the Big Red by just one at halftime in their Ivy League opener on New Year’s Day....

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

SHARON — Ben Montenegro is used to having a lot on his plate.A 2021 graduate of Wagner College, Montenegro balanced his academic workload with NCAA Division I baseball at the Staten Island, N.Y., school. So after he moved on to pursue an accelerated...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

There was a time when interstate high school matchups were commonplace in the Upper Valley. The Connecticut Valley League, which featured schools from both sides of the river, pitted the likes of Hanover, Lebanon and Stevens against Hartford, Windsor...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

SOUTH ROYALTON — Rather than sticking to a base defense, the White River Valley girls basketball team takes whatever shape it needs depending on the Wildcats’ opponent.Sometimes White River Valley will play a zone, sometimes man-to-man, and sometimes...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WEST LEBANON — Roughly 20 Upper Valley toddlers and young Jewish children, along with 35 or so of their parents and grandparents, gathered at the Kilton Public Library on Saturday for a morning of songs, crafts and stories.The tot Shabbat event —...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WINDSOR — There’s a different vibe inside Harry Ladue Gymnasium as fall turns to winter this year.The Windsor High boys basketball team, like always, is preparing for a new season. But for the first time in 39 years, the gym’s namesake is not leading...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

THETFORD — Bob Bristol expected to be in Europe right now.After 35 years as a soccer coach, history teacher, dean and athletic director in Washington state, Bristol and his wife, a Dartmouth College alumna, moved to the Upper Valley in May expecting...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Kylie Young first learned about Title IX as a Hartford High School senior, when she wrote a thesis on the U.S. women’s ice hockey team winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics — the first year women’s hockey was played at the Games.For her...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

When Tim Winslow took over the Hanover High boys basketball program prior to the 2000-01 season, it was “unthinkable,” in rival Lebanon head coach Kieth Matte’s words, that the Marauders, as they were then known, would ever win a state championship.It...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

After winning its first NHIAA state championship since 2013, and the first since moving up to Division I, the Hanover High boys tennis team celebrated in style.“We went to Buffalo Wild Wings,” senior Alex Rockmore said. “Is there anything else high...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WEST CANAAN — Mascoma Regional High School has fired its varsity baseball coach midway through the season after a report of “inappropriate contact with students” and referred the matter to police, according to Superintendent Amanda Isabelle.The...

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Back after a yearlong absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several Upper Valley softball squads had seasons to remember in 2021, with Oxbow winning the VPA Division III state title and Windsor and White River Valley in the mix as well. Lebanon may...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION – A 22-year old Quechee man who was shot in the face at the Super 8 Motel in White River Junction on Friday is the same man who was shot by a state trooper during a pursuit after the man fired a shotgun in the direction of his...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

LEBANON — There’s no shortage of swimming experience on the Hanover High coaching staff.Head coach Sean Uiterwyk competed at Boston College from 1992-96. Diving coach Carl Renshaw both swam and dove at Carlton College in the 1980s, and Linda Bedford,...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

The Hanover High boys’ soccer team may not have won the NHIAA Division I state championship, falling in a heartbreaker in 11 rounds of penalty kicks to Nashua South on Nov. 5. But for several Hanover players, the journey’s end under the bright lights...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

In more than 30 years of hunting together, John Durkee and Alan Stender had never had a trip quite like their expedition in western Maine last month.Durkee, an accountant and former volunteer fire chief in Tunbridge, received a permit to hunt bull...