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3 years
You just could not have a better spring on the mound than Hartford High graduate Jordy Allard did for the Babson College baseball team. He was 7-0 with an earned run average of 0.91. He also struck out 55 in 49.2 innings.
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The Rutland boys basketball team has won the state title, 43-37, over CVU, the first for the program in 50 years
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4 years
Lopi LaRoeโ€™s second mural in Rutland City is also the largest one sheโ€™s ever done.
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7 years
Middlebury student looks to Olympics.
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2 years
The Vermont Football Coaches Association released it's all-state selections on Monday.
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3 years
Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale, of the Chittenden District, has indicated she intends to introduce a ranked-choice voting bill this session that will allow voters to rank the candidates on their ballot in order of preference.
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Fifty years, thousands of students, and no sign of stopping: Stanley Blicharz, former assistant principal and guidance counselor for Rutland Town, Stanley Blicharz was selected as a national Teacher of Excellence by the American Driver and Traffic Sโ€ฆ
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3 years
BRANDON โ€” After 41 years in education, Jeanne Collins, superintendent at Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, is planning to move on.
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1 year
Kaiden McCarthy is just wrapping up his eighth grade year and is already flirting with 90 mph for his fastball.
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7 years
The drought is over - two Vermonters have won the first US cross-country skiing medals in four decades - and the...
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4 years
Ben Smith will be consumed by the game if his first season as the Mill River Union High school varsity boys basketball coach ever gets green lighted. He will be designing the Xs and Os and exhorting his players, trying to squeeze every ounce of enerโ€ฆ
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3 years
Eric Berry and Johnny Allen have broadcast numerous events through the years including many of the St. Johnsbury-Lyndon high school football games, a longstanding rivalry that began in 1894.
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2 years
Jahmalie McKenzie found America. Then, he found football. The former would have have been a much tougher transition without the latter.
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5 years
Her favorite food is pizza. Her favorite animal, a dragon. When she grows up she wants to be a dog trainer, but for now sheโ€™s a national finalist for the annual Google Doodle contest.
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5 years
PROCTOR โ€” Renovations to the increasingly popular Proctor Skating Rink Building are complete and there will be a celebration Friday to start the winter season.
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7 years
VIDEO from Rutland High School Boys Basketball repeating as Div. 1 state champions. Congratulations to the Raiders!
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3 years
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. โ€” The Rutland Herald's Tom Haley and Caledonian Record sports editor Michael Beniash have tied for the honor of 2021 Vermont Sportswriter of the Year.
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2 years
Some thoughts brought to mind by the dismissal of longtime Mount Abraham girls basketball coach Connie LaRose who was coming off her fifth state championship.
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2 years
The biggest story at the Vermont All-Star Football Camp on Monday at Rutland's Alumni Field was the robust numbers. Whereas last year there were about 50 players at the camp, the 2022 edition of the camp boasted about 130 players. Executive Directorโ€ฆ
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3 years
The guy standing in the blocks did not look like the prototypical sprinter, wearing sneakers with his baseball hat backwards.
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3 years
The measure of a man can be quantified by how much respect he garners from others. The late Jack Rogers Jr. garnered plenty of respect.
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4 years
Republican Gov. Phil Scott has called for President Donald Trump to resign or be removed from office.
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5 years
PITTSFORD โ€” Proctor finally scored a goal against West Rutland goalie Kyle Laughlin after 236 minutes and 10 seconds of soccer this season. But it wasn't enough. Tyler Serrani and Tim Blanchard saw to that, lifting the Golden Horde to a 2-1 overtimeโ€ฆ
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5 years
Harwood girls basketball coach Tom Young had to confirm that the message he received was legitimate.
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3 years
CASTLETON โ€” It was game where 74 points were scored, yet there were defensive players standing out in the South's 39-35 victory on Saturday in the North-South All-Star Football Game on the Castleton University campus.
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5 years
Rutland Post 31's Alex Cornelius might be unheralded but he is not unappreciated. The appreciation grew Wednesday evening when he ripped a single up the middle to score Ethan Coarse with the winning run in the bottom of the eighth in a 4-3 victory oโ€ฆ
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3 years
If Amanda Pelkey wasnโ€™t already a household name four years ago, a gold medal at the 2018 Olympics made her hands-down one of Vermontโ€™s most recognizable athletes.
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2 years
CASTLETONย โ€” South Burlington junior Emily Borrazzo is have a pretty solid week.
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4 years
Rutland High graduate Chloe Levins was one of 10 people named to the U.S. team in the IBU Biathlon World Championships, as announced by the U.S. Biathlon International Competition Committee this weekend.
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3 years
Vermont Gatorade Player of the Year Slade Postemski and his Rutland High teammate Jack Coughlin will be members of the Vermont team that will play against New Hampshire in the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl, the annual high school all-star football game toโ€ฆ
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5 years
CASTLETON โ€” As the oldest university in Vermont celebrated itโ€™s 232nd commencement, former governor James Douglas begged students to remain, to build their lives, careers and families in Vermont, where the population is fast decreasing and aging.
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7 years
Rutland boys basketball runs the table for perfect season, repeats as D-I champs.
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5 years
FAIR HAVEN โ€” Fair Haven Grade School has been home to a legend for the past 35 years, and this month the captain will come ashore. Longtime principal Wayne โ€œSkipโ€ Cooke is leaving his post after a 50-year career as an educator and administrator.
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4 years
After a year without competition, Vermontโ€™s Special Olympics athletes are back in medal contention โ€” albeit with a virtual twist.
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4 years
State champs Proctor, Windsor and Fair Haven made out like bandits when the Southern Vermont League announced its girls basketball post-season awards.
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4 years
In a meet that didn't come to fruition until recently, it was the Rutland boys and Mount Anthony girls cross country teams that took home Southern Vermont League A Division championships Saturday afternoon at Northwood Park.
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1 year
BRANDON โ€” The Rutland High Unified basketball team earned a 64-44 victory over Otter Valley but the respect between the teams superseded anything on the scoreboard.
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7 years
Stuff-A-Bus campaign begins later this week. Story by Patrick McArdle.
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1 year
Green Mountain Union High School baseball star Kaiden McCarthy is talented well-beyond his years.
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3 years
The last time the Rutland football team walked off Alumni Field after a game, it was a champion.
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3 years
Vermontโ€™s smallest schools usually have no business competing on the soccer pitch against Division I powers like CVU, South Burlington or Colchester.
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5 years
A first-grader who has struggled with illness all his life got a holiday surprise at Rutland Northeast Primary School on Friday: Because of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Vermont, heโ€™s going to Disney World.
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2 years
HINESBURG โ€” West Rutland sophomore Peyton Guay crashed the 1,000-point barrier this season and Saturday she thought she was going to CVU to be recognized for her career scoring achievement.
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5 years
When they stopped the game Thursday night to recognize Fair Haven's Ryleigh Coloutti's 1,000-point achievement as a junior in the girls basketball game against Burr and Burton Academy, her sister Halle Coloutti gave a heartfelt speech about Ryleigh.
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5 years
Head coach Kelly Rider was the only person involved with the Northland College hockey program who wasn't able to celebrate Saturday's 2-1 victory over Castleton at the top of her lungs.
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4 years
Northern Vermont-Johnson womenโ€™s basketball coach Greg Eckman had a question for Springfieldโ€™s Gabby Wardwell when she first popped onto his radar last winter.
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2 years
FAIR HAVEN โ€” Sawyer Ramey learned to crawl, then walk and then play basketball. The long love affair with the game reached a milestone for the Fair Haven senior on Saturday night when he scored his 1,000th career point in a 55-36 victory over Vergenโ€ฆ
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4 years
After more than 40 years with the region's Visiting Nurses Association, almost 30 as its CEO, Ronald J. Cioffi will be stepping down and retiring in June.
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5 years
The two Daves believe there will be opportunties to collaborate and benefit all Rutland residents.
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2 years
Reilly Howard was having a conversation a few days ago with Castleton University women's basketball coach Tim Barrett.
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4 years
Wednesday was the 35th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, so I couldnโ€™t help but think of the females in our coverage area that are displaying their abilities daily on and off the field.
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7 years
Otter Valley graduates class of 2017 Saturday.
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3 years
MANCHESTER โ€” Resiliency. The Mount St. Joseph boys soccer team needed it. Late-game lightning. The MSJ team had to have it.
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3 years
Rutland County is home to some of the most successful cheerleading teams in the state.
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4 years
FAIR HAVEN โ€” The Fair Haven girls basketball team has made the Barre Auditorium its second home for the last seven years.
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2 years
Rutland senior Brady Geisler sat out of Tuesday's RHS opening home meet nursing a minor injury, but his freshman sister Erin Geisler represented the family name quite well.
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3 years
WHITE RIVER JCT. โ€” Hartford and Otter Valley girls soccer players showed solidarity on Saturday in the Hurricanes' first game since an incident of harassment at Fair Haven's LaPlaca Field on Thursday.
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2 years
Money, the climate, and nuclear weapons were a few topics students talked about with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders when he visited Rutland High School on Wednesday.
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3 years
After a year of canceled shows and unconventional productions, Rutland High Schoolโ€™s Encore Theatre is ready to step back into the spotlight.
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4 years
A psychologist working in the Rutland City Public Schools has been awarded a fellowship she intends to use to institute a โ€œsequenced social emotional curriculumโ€ at Rutland High School.
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2 years
Mill River sophomore Matt Kennedy had his moment to shine in Wednesday's Unified basketball team against Rutland.
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5 years
Seeing a lack of LGBTQ events in the Rutland County area, three drag queens have planned a Youth Pride Prom that will take place Saturday at Merchants Hall.
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1 year
Jake Eaton was such a prolific quarterback at Rutland High before enjoying a Hall of Fame career at the University of Maine, you sometimes forget just how good he was in the other sports.
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7 years
Sunday best: Shiffrin shines at Killington.
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5 years
I am counting on spring sports. We have to pin our hopes on something. And there is certainly plenty to look forward to in that vein at 10 of the schools we regard as our coverage area.
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3 years
WESTMINSTER โ€” West Rutland freshman guard Peyton Guay set a school record, scoring 38 points in a 68-30 victory over Bellows Falls Tuesday night.
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For 23 years, Bob Myers served Barstow Memorial School as a teacher known for his fun-loving attitude and dedication to the Barstow community. Now, he will be carrying his enthusiasm for Barstow into a permanent leadership position.
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Rutland High School teacher Adrienne Weld has been announced as the 2023 recipient of the Adapted Physical Education Educator of the Year award by the Society of Health and Physical Educators of Vermont.
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CHICAGO โ€” On Wednesday, Fair Haven senior guard Sawyer Ramey was named the 2022-2023 Vermont boys basketball Gatorade Player of the Year.
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LEICESTER โ€” Kris Francoeur can write for hours at a time and have fun doing it as her three published romance novels show, but writing about the death of her son was a different matter.
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3 years
Soccer is a team game. It's about timing, connection between teammates and the will to get the job done together. So when the onus falls on one person in a moment, the pressure intensifies.
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Joe Harrington always went the distance. As a distance runner at Burr and Burton, he was good enough to set a state record in the 3000 meters that stood for eight years; good enough to make him a member of the inaugural BBA Hall of Fame class in 200โ€ฆ
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CASTLETONย โ€” The game came down to the last shot. It hit the rim and fell away, allowing the Castleton University women's basketball team to escape with a 56-54 victory over Keene State. Welcome to the Little East Conference where every contest is a โ€ฆ
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Hundreds in Montpelier, and thousands across New England, turned out for marches 'in support of science' today.
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Coach Shirley Bruso's Mill River girls basketball team endured excruciating losses to St. Johnsbury in the state championship game, losing 55-53 in 1984 and 73-70 in 1985. The 1985 game took three overtimes to resolve.
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The Rutland girls basketball team will make its opponents work for every basket they get. You won't be scoring on these Ravens easily.
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WORCESTER, Mass. โ€” Brattleboro Post 5 struck a blow for Vermont by winning its first game at the American Legion baseball Northeast Regional, edging Southington, Connecticut, 4-3 on Wednesday at Fitton Field on the Holy Cross campus.
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3 years
Something I love to watch every season is what young player is going to come onto the scene and establish what's in store for the next few years for a program.
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Rutland sophomore Eli Rosi has an extra gear that not many other runners can tap into.
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3 years
MANCHESTER โ€” It was an hour before game time on Wednesday night at Manchesterโ€™s Applejack Stadium so the crowd had yet to begin arriving as rain pelted the parking lot.
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4 years
To help feed the hungry in the Rutland area, Capt. Mark Stockton, of Stockton Security, is suggesting people stuff it โ€” a Rutland City Police Department vehicle, that is.
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The list of accomplishments for Fair Haven senior Ryleigh Coloutti is long and she can tack on Vermont Basketball Coaches Association Girls Player of the Year to her impressive resume.
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When Gail Patch graduated from Brattleboro High School in 1959, she had not played a sport.
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4 years
Hundreds of Vermont high school teams are crossing their fingers but not holding their breath while waiting for a winter season.
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3 years
The outcome was never in doubt Thursday night when the Rutland girls basketball team hosted Mount Anthony. Raiders junior Karsyn Bellomo did her part to make sure that was the case.
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3 years
Oh, those small high schools that are no more. Vermont history is liberally sprinkled with their stories.
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7 years
'Anything is possible' - Stafford Tech graduates hear inspiration from former Stafford student in Friday ceremony.
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CASTLETON โ€” Rutland High senior Slade Postemski is a standout in track and field and on the basketball court. But it was his freshman season that football really got a hold on him.
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FAIR HAVEN โ€” The bullseye is squarely on the back of the Fair Haven boys and girls basketball teams.
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