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02/12/2013 - 1:21pm

Bill Murphy

There are storms and then there are storms. The Connecticut River Valley escaped the worst part of the New England Blizzard of ‘13, but it was certainly still enough to put most of the weekend contests on the back burner. There have been more snowfalls this winter than in any year in recent memory, which has caused a real backlog of athletic contests headed into the last...

This and That October 31

11/02/2012 - 4:43pm

Sometimes good things happen when adversity strikes. Last Friday evening at Hadley Field in Bellows Falls, a large crowd gathered to see an exhibition football game between the Bellows Falls Terriers and the Fall Mountain Wildcats. It was likely the second largest crowd of the year at Hadley, even though every one knew there was a great...

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10/02/2012 - 5:13pm

A couple of weeks back we mentioned that we would attempt to find out more about the protocol used surrounding the firing of Don Hart as Stevens Girls Soccer coach. Hart still contends strongly, that no one listened to his side of the story, one which differs from some of the charges made against him about inappropriate remarks made...

This N That September 12, 2012

09/12/2012 - 2:10pm

Jon "Boomer Aumand" was named the Fall Mountain Wildcats Girls Basketball coach earlier this week. This brings the Aumand name back into the sporting limelight of the Connecticut Valley. The Fall Mountain Girls have been in the thick of things in New Hampshire Division III competition in recent years and Aumand's goal is...

This N That September 5, 2012

09/05/2012 - 1:49pm

The opening weekend of Vermont High School Football created one big area upset as Bellows Falls turned the trick they started out to do a year ago, as they defeated Fair Haven 20-14. The Terriers were the top defensive team in Division II a year ago and when the regular season ended in 2011, most people in the know saw the Purple and...

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08/29/2012 - 12:32pm

Over the past decade the high school sporting calendar certainly has done an abrupt shift and cut summer short. Practices have always begun in the last weeks of August, but around the turn of the century, games started popping up in August. By now the events are common for all, except the freshmen and their families who are often caught...