Barre – To complete a rain-free weekend in central Vermont, the sights and sounds of Barre’s Thunder Road International Speedbowl went off without a hitch on Sunday for the 45th Labor Day Classic. The American-Canadian Tour once again put on an international showdown while the weekly warriors of the Thunder[Read More…]
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Dragon’s Third King of the Road Title Grows Nearer
BARRE – Setting the stage for Sunday’s 45th Labor Day Classic 200, the rain-delayed program went off with a bang on Friday. Tight, competitive racing throughout the divisions wowed the crowd, as did the annual Run-What-U-Brung spectator drags which brought the rabid fan base to their feet on more than[Read More…]
AWARE Report
HARDWICK – AWARE served 24 people from August 27 through September 3. AWARE is a nonprofit organization, established in 1984, dedicated to resolving the causes and effects of domestic violence and sexual assault in the greater Hardwick area.The 24-hour hotline is 802-472-6463.
Opera is Not Just For Opera Fans Anymore
by David Kelley, Community Journalist GREENSBORO – On Thursday, Sept. 14, at 7:30 p.m., the Highland Center for the Arts will present Opera Vermont. In this inaugural performance, with the Highland Center for the Arts as one of its new key venue partners, Opera Vermont will be taking classical opera[Read More…]
Grow Your Own
What Could Possibly go Wrong?
by Willem Lange EAST MONTPELIER – Wednesday, 7/30, 10 p.m. Cold, rainy, windy. Still wind-bound. Blew hard all day. Fished up and down the canyon with Baird, slept, read. Can’t move till the wind dies. Bob’s barometer still dropping. Half the fuel is gone, and we’ve seen barely a pencil[Read More…]
Hazen Girls and Lady Chargers Join Forces
by Ken Brown HARDWICK – The Hazen Union girls’ soccer team was already on the upswing with a talented returning core and an incoming dynamic freshman class, but will further bolster its roster this fall with an agreed cooperative with Craftsbury Academy (CA). Head coach Harry Besett enters his fifth[Read More…]
Hunt to Lead Wildcat Golf Program
by Ken Brown HARDWICK – Greensboro’s Andy Hunt will step in this fall as the new head coach of the Hazen Union golf team. Hunt, 66, is a lifelong Caspian Lake summer resident and will soon be a year-round resident of Greensboro. He played high school golf at Burlington High[Read More…]
Wildcat Harriers Ready for First Meet
by Jim Flint HARDWICK – Hazen Union cross country coach Netdahe Stoddard is full of optimism for the 2023 Wildcat cross country team. Stoddard has a roster of nine varsity runners and a handful of middle schoolers. The younger and older runners practice together. The Wildcats launch their 2023 campaign[Read More…]
No Soccer this Fall at Craftsbury Academy
by Ken Brown CRAFTSBURY – For the first time in the modern era, Craftsbury Academy (CA) will not field either a girls or a boys’ varsity soccer team this fall. With only 28 boys enrolled at CA and lower than expected numbers on the girls’ side, Charger fall sports looks[Read More…]
Trojans Overwhelm Vikings in Opener
by Ken Brown LYNDONVILLE – The Twinfield-Cabot boys’ soccer team made a statement in their season opener over the weekend, battering Division II Lyndon Institute on the road. Junior Darshan Eddleman exploded for five goals to lead the Trojans to a dominant 10-0 road win over the Vikings in both[Read More…]
Locals Runners Earn Medals at Northfield 5k
by Jim Flint NORTHFIELD ̶ The 44th Annual Northfield footraces, on September 2, opened the town’s traditional Labor Day Weekend Festival. Runners and walkers, ages 5 to 84, were dispersed among a 5k run-walk, 5k Power Walk, and one-mile kids’ race. With 128 finishers, the 5k run-walk started the action[Read More…]
