HARDWICK – Local players from Hardwick, Craftsbury, Albany and Danville led their Black River soccer team to a victory over the Barre Stone Cutters on Sunday in the annual PolyWhey Cup. The historic third annual PolyWhey Cup between an NEK Black River team and the Barre Stone Cutters was played[Read More…]
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Locals lead Caledonia Flood to Nordic Cup Championship
BURLINGTON – Danville multi-sport budding stars Taryn Barrett and Willa Mantius helped lead the U14 Caledonia Flood soccer team to a Nordic Cup title over the weekend. Goalkeeper True Layn and the Cal Flood defense posted four consecutive shutouts en route to their dominant tournament run. Barrett, along with Phoenix[Read More…]
Alekson named to All-ECAC Team
DANBURY, Conn. – Former Peoples Academy (PA) star Ben Alekson added to his growing post-season awards haul earlier this month with top Eastern College Athletic Conference honors after an outstanding junior campaign for his Fairfield University baseball team. The 6-foot-2 right-hander was tied for the team lead in wins (7)[Read More…]
NEK Warriors finish 2-1 at Essex Shootout
ESSEX – Three NEK Warrior age divisions were in action over the weekend at the Essex Shootout at Lang Farm. The U10 Warrior soccer team highlighted the day’s action with a 2-1 record, narrowly missing out on a chance to advance to the Final Four. Ainsley Cadorette and Ty Billings[Read More…]
Capital League Honors
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – Thetford Academy, U-32, Lyndon Institute and North Country dominated All-Capital First Team selections last week. Thetford’s Xander Oshoniyi led the way with First Team honors and was named Player of the Year after leading the Panthers to their third Division III State Championship in the last four[Read More…]
Witherspoon earns All-Mountain League honors
MONTGOMERY – Rose Witherspoon, daughter of former Craftsbury Academy Vermont All-State soccer standout Allison (May) Witherspoon, earned Mountain League First Team honors for her Richford softball team this past season. Witherspoon, an eighth grader at Montgomery Elementary School this past spring, was outstanding offensively and defensively at second base for[Read More…]
Fisher beats Gray by .036-seconds in Memorial Day Classic
BARRE – While keeping an eye on the weather all day Sunday, Thunder Road International Speedbowl put on one of the best short track races in recent memory. Twenty-four Late Models joined the field for the Memorial Day Classic 125 on Father’s Day Sunday with Kaiden Fisher earning the pole[Read More…]
Roy elected as new VBCA President
LYNDONVILLE – Decorated North Country girls head basketball coach Sarah Roy has been elected the new president of the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association (VBCA). Roy, a graduate of Lyndon State College (VTSU-Lyndon) and a member of the VBCA Board of Directors for the past five years, has become one of[Read More…]
Young lives claimed in head-on crash
WOODBURY – Two young Danville sisters, ages 2 and 8, died this past Saturday after a fatal head-on crash into a second vehicle on Vermont Route 14 in Woodbury. On June 13, around 9:30 a.m., the Vermont State Police were notified of a two-vehicle head-on crash on Vt. Route 14, near[Read More…]
Swenson Granite awaits approval of quarry expansion plans
WOODBURY – Swenson Granite Company, now a division of a company named Polycor, has submitted an application to the Town of Woodbury asking that it approve a non-confirming use of the quarry property, asking to expand the extraction of granite from the quarry to 750,000 cubic feet from its current[Read More…]
