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Thetford’s Junker is Vt. Gatorade track athlete of year

07-15-2025 4:05 PM

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

THETFORD — Ulysses Junker, a standout at Thetford Academy, was named Gatorade’s Vermont Boys Track and Field Player of the Year late last month, recognizing his record-setting feats as well as his work in the classroom and the community.


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Oxbow athletic director has departed

07-13-2025 1:01 PM

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

BRADFORD — Heidi Wright, who served as Oxbow High School’s activities and athletics director for three years, has departed from her role.


Lending a hand during the Prouty

07-12-2025 5:36 PM

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

TUNBRIDGE — Prouty support riders David Moynihan, of Lebanon, right, diagnoses a problem for Julia Surgenor, of Meriden, left, with the gears of her bike during the Prouty Ultimate as Ella Bankert, of Essex Junction, Vt., second from left, Greta Close, of Norwich, middle, and support rider Jeremy Kehoe, of Lebanon, second from right, watch in Tunbridge on Friday.


Nighthawks’ Winters lets her love for baseball play-by-play show

07-12-2025 4:00 PM

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Phoebe Winters was set to start an internship last summer with the Bethesda (Md.) Big Train, a team in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League, when a bigger opportunity came knocking.


Mother and son cast about in Cornish

07-11-2025 9:31 AM

By ALEX DRIEHAUS

April Ellis and her son Everett Ellis, 5, both of Lebanon, fish in the Connecticut River from the boat launch in Cornish on Tuesday. Before casting, Everett spotted what he and his mother agreed was the biggest bass they had seen all summer. “I don’t even know what we would do with that if you caught it,” April Ellis said.


Lebanon Post 22 senior baseball in heat of the season

07-10-2025 5:16 PM

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — Sam Gaudet, a rising senior at Sunapee High and a member of the Lebanon Post 22 senior American Legion baseball team, delivers a pitch to catcher and recent Stevens High graduate Nevin Marsh on Tuesday at Lebanon High.


Enjoying the great outdoors in Weathersfield

07-10-2025 8:31 AM

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

WEATHERSFIELD — Peyton Demers, 7, draws an ocean on her family’s driveway last week.


Dartmouth improving hockey facilities

07-09-2025 4:00 PM

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

HANOVER — The home of Dartmouth College’s hockey teams is undergoing a makeover that will bring upgrades for players and also promote equity between the men’s and women’s squads.


Lebanon ski jumper earns invitation to Colorado camp

07-06-2025 2:00 PM

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

LEBANON — Paisley Rancourt, an incoming Lebanon High School freshman, is taking to the air this month as she participates in USA Ski Jumping’s Fly Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colo.


Lebanon grad Miller wasn’t going to be an athlete — then he discovered running

07-05-2025 3:00 PM

By TRIS WYKES

Sean Miller paused, and you could almost hear his smile on the other end of the phone conversation.


Upper Valley College Notes: How athletes fared on track, field & water

07-05-2025 12:01 PM

By TRIS WYKES

Here are some of the Upper Valley residents who played varsity college sports during the spring season:


Sunapee’s Bryce Whitlow keeps memory of above-average MLB players alive through social media page ‘MLB Hall of (Pretty) Good’

07-02-2025 4:01 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Bryce Whitlow has worked as a paraeducator in Sunapee for two years, but outside of his day job, he’s the man behind a social media page called “MLB Hall of (Pretty) Good” that has taken online baseball media by storm.


NH will pursue upgrade of Mt. Sunapee wastewater treatment system

07-01-2025 4:00 PM

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEWBURY, N.H. — In response to public outcry, the state is stepping in to help make improvements to the wastewater treatment system at Mount Sunapee Resort, despite maintaining that it does not violate state environmental standards.


Dartmouth athlete-led program helps kids to put best foot forward

07-01-2025 4:00 PM

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

HANOVER — A new community program is making a name for itself in the Upper Valley, offering free opportunities for children to get active and try their hands, or legs, at the sport of running.


Young Hanover runner has nowhere to go but up

06-26-2025 9:01 AM

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

HANOVER — Lila Marchetti, an incoming Hanover High School freshman, will take on what Ryan Kerrigan, head coach of the U.S. Youth Skyrunning team, calls “the toughest thing you can do on two legs” when she competes at the Youth Skyrunning World Championships in Fonte Cerreto, Italy, this August.


Barnard’s Silver Lake reopens for swimming

06-25-2025 2:12 PM

BARNARD — Silver Lake State Park’s swimming area reopened Wednesday morning after being closed for about 24 hours, Chief of Park Operations Reuben Allen confirmed early Wednesday afternoon.


Blessing of the bikes in Corinth

06-25-2025 9:30 AM

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

Pastor Aaron Grefer, rides with his son Isaac, 5, around the lawn of the Corinth Bible Church as Caleb Grefer, 1, left, watches after having the dirt bike blessed in Corinth Center last month.


Bacteria level forces closing of Silver Lake beach in Barnard

06-24-2025 3:37 PM

By CLARE SHANAHAN

BARNARD — In the middle of a sweltering heat wave on Tuesday, Silver Lake State Park’s swim area was closed for elevated levels of E. coli.


Wet weather forces closure of some recreation trails

06-23-2025 4:00 PM

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

LEBANON — A rainy spring disrupted outdoor activities or many in the Upper Valley, including mountain biking, who dealt with trail closures and damage across the region.


NH Bike Week 2025: Fewer Canadians, but still lots of leather and motorcycles

06-21-2025 9:01 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Jan Marcotte, of Gilford, N.H., has welcomed visitors up Laconia Motorcycle Week’s viewing tower for 10 years. The job puts her in the middle of Weirs Beach’s main drag — a good perch to see who’s at Bike Week, and who isn’t.


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