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By TRIS WYKES

SOUTH ROYALTON — The White River Valley High boys basketball team took in a horror film to start the season.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — A frustrated White River Valley boys basketball team and its fans saw an undefeated season come to a disappointing conclusion on Thursday night, falling short of the program’s championship goals.

By ALEX HANSON

SOUTH ROYALTON — Bethel and Royalton voters approved a $15.2 million budget for the White River Unified School District with a minimum of conversation about it at Monday night’s annual meeting.

By BEN HOOKE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — As a youngster, Charlotte Jasmin would come to Hartford High basketball games and stare up at the banner with the names of the five 1,000-point scorers to wear the red, white and blue.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

High school indoor track in the Upper Valley has a number of top individual performers and strong overall teams that can compete at the state level. Among them are the Thetford boys, led by Uly Junker, and the Hartford boys, who bring back a lot of...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

STEVENS Coach: Shawn Fitzpatrick (third year). Last year: NHIAA Division I state champions. League: NHIAA Division I.Returners: Seniors — Maddox Foster, Devyn Corliss, Steven Rheaume. Juniors — Logan Aiken, Josh Howe. Sophomores – Brennan Tallman,...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

SOUTH ROYALTON — After more than three decades as an educator in the Upper Valley, the principal of White River Valley High School has announced plans to retire at the end of the current school year.Jeff Thomas, 59, sent his letter of resignation to...

By ALEX CERVANTES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — White River Valley High junior guard Jacob Benoit was elated; Hartford High boys basketball coach Mike Gaudette was exasperated.In the waning moments of its 68-59 win on Friday, White River Valley pushed the ball up the floor...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — The Hartford High boys cross country team captured the Southern Vermont League B Division Championship on Friday, with the Hurricanes’ Bennett Moreno winning the 5K race at the North Springfield Dam in a time of 16 minutes, 43...

ALEX CERVANTES

WINDSOR — Moments before kickoff, White River Valley girls soccer coach Kim Prestridge held up a large easel paper pad outlined with a list of goals for her team to accomplish Friday. Prestridge got the idea from her assistant coach, Omar...

By PATRICK ADRIAN, CHRISTINA DOLAN and ALEX HANSON

WEST LEBANON — As the new school year begins, Upper Valley school officials, like their counterparts around the country, are trying a variety of approaches to limit cellphone use during classes.The efforts come as public health experts warn about the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — This past Town Meeting season was a particularly challenging one for public officials overseeing Vermont school budgets.Anxieties over rising costs, expiring pandemic-era federal aid and confusion over the state’s new funding...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

BURLINGTON — Rivendell Academy sophomore Sydney Schoenbeck was second among the girls and Thetford Academy junior Ulysses Junker-Boyce was second in the boys division at the Vermont High School Decathlon Championship held at Burlington High School on...

By NICOLA SMITH

SOUTH ROYALTON — Under a brilliant blue sky and cool temperatures, Anna Stratton, who gave the salutatory address at the White River Valley High School graduation Saturday on South Royalton green, urged her classmates to live in the present and not...

By BEN HOOKE

BURLINGTON — In White River Valley’s magical three-week run to reach the VPA Division III baseball state championship game, a lot of things broke the Wildcats’ way. Ground balls found gaps they shouldn’t have, opposing ace pitchers struggled with...

By TRIS WYKES

THETFORD — If the White River Valley High baseball team was going to lose in Monday’s VPA Division III semifinals, timidity wouldn’t be a cause. Of that, Wildcats coach Devin Cilley was certain.Tied during the seventh inning and not wanting to hand...

By TRIS WYKES

BRADFORD, Vt. — Chuck Simmons exploded off the white bucket on which he’d been sitting in the entry to the Oxbow High girls softball dugout on Friday.Bounding several steps toward the first-base line, the fourth-year coach raised both hands over his...

By TRIS WYKES

SOUTH ROYALTON — It’s not often that a victorious high school softball team surrenders eight runs during an inning. Add eight errors committed by that same squad and the odds become ever longer.Somehow escaping that situation Saturday was White River...

By BEN HOOKE

SOUTH ROYALTON — Rivendell Academy baseball coach Eric Reichert has been coming to the diamond in South Royalton for close to 40 years since his early days coaching summer ball in the 1980s.The nine-year wait his Rivendell team had to beat White River...

By TRIS WYKES

SOUTH ROYALTON — Had Friday’s baseball game between White River Valley High and Leland & Gray gone into extra innings, the path paced by Wildcats coach Devin Cilley in front of the home dugout might have become a trench.Back and forth walked the...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — Lea Perreard’s wrists are wrapped in bracelets. How many? The Hanover High sophomore isn’t sure, but 15 would be a solid guess.Rubber bracelets, woven bracelets, string bracelets with beads on them. It takes Perreard roughly five minutes to...