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Tiger baseball tops Slaters, but then drop next two games

Posted on April 22, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School baseball team gave new coach Charlie Messenger a win in his first game this past Wednesday, 10-5 over visiting Fair Haven, but came up short in its next two games.

On Thursday, visiting South Burlington struck early in an 11-1 win, and on Saturday, host St. Johnsbury snapped a 2-2 tie with a pair of unearned runs in the fifth inning to win, 4-2.

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VUHS wins four events in eight-team track meet

Posted on April 22, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



SOUTH BURLINGTON — At an eight-team meet on Thursday at South Burlington, Vergennes Union High School track and field athletes won four events, two by senior Jon Welch.

Welch took the 40-yard dash in 4.9, and won the 200-meter hurdles in 27.64.

Also winning events were Austin Beamish and Jordan Stearns. Beamish took the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, four inches, and Stearns won the triple jump with a 34-foot, two-inch effort.

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State: New Northlands lease could mean compensation for Vergennes

Posted on April 18, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Although the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has again delayed selecting the next operator of Northlands Job Corps, according to Vermont officials the DOL and the state are close on a new 20-year lease for the MacDonough Drive campus.

It is a deal that might mean that once again Vergennes would be compensated for hosting the program.

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Heroin, guns, money found in Saturday raid in Starksboro

Posted on April 18, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



STARKSBORO — Authorities found guns, cash and heroin in a raid on an apartment at 132 Big Hollow Road in Starksboro conducted Saturday morning by Vergennes police with the aid of Vermont State Police from the New Haven barracks.

All four people arrested in the raid on drug charges pled innocent on Monday in Addison Superior Court’s Criminal Division to all counts and were released on bail that ranged from $5,000 to $50,000.

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Man sentenced in nursing home robbery

Posted on April 18, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



MIDDLEBURY — Addison County Criminal Court Judge Helen Toor on Monday handed out a four-to-10-year prison sentence to one of the two men involved in a July 4, 2012, armed robbery at a Bristol nursing home.

As part of a plea deal first agreed upon in February, Timothy Boardman, 42, of Monkton will get credit for time already served. Boardman must also pay $141 of court costs.

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VUHS boys' lax team surges by Otters in season opener

Posted on April 18, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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BRANDON — A Vergennes Union High School boys’ lacrosse team with high hopes for 2013 hit host Otter Valley with a big first period on Monday and cruised to a 20-5 win in the opener for both Division II programs.

VUHS senior Joe Krayewsky tossed in five of his nine goals in the first quarter — two in the final 22.6 seconds — as the Commodores took command, 9-3.

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MUHS boys lacrosse rally past Redhawks

Posted on April 18, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School boys’ lacrosse team on Tuesday earned one of the program’s biggest wins in recent years, knocking off perennial Division I contender Champlain Valley, 10-7.

The Tigers spotted the Redhawks four quick goals, and still trailed at the end of the first quarter, 6-3. But they rallied to tie the game at the half, 7-7; held CVU scoreless in the second half; and scored three times in the fourth period to nail down the victory.

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Board seeks voter OK for $600,000 to fix VUHS roof

Posted on April 15, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Residents of the five Addison Northwest Supervisory Union towns will be asked in a district-wide May 14 vote to support a five-year, $600,000 loan to put a new roof on the leaky Vergennes Union High School classroom wing and auditorium.

In Vergennes, balloting will coincide with the city council’s request for a $1.45 million bond to build a new North Main Street police station, and school and city officials are looking at holding a joint informational meeting, possibly on May 7.

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Tiger girls' lacrosse starts season with a win

Posted on April 15, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — In a rematch of the 2012 Division I semifinal, the host Middlebury Union High School girls’ lacrosse team opened this past Wednesday with a convincing, 12-7 win over Rutland.

 

Next up for the Tigers, whose Friday home game with Woodstock was postponed, is another rematch: Defending D-I champion South Burlington, the team that knocked off MUHS in the 2012 final. The Tigers will visit the Rebels on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

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Eagle athletes win events at CVU track and field meet

Posted on April 15, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



HINESBURG — Mount Abraham Union High School track and field athletes on Thursday won three events at a four-team meet hosted by Champlain Valley, and recorded top-three finishes in several other disciplines.

Winning were Asa Learmonth at 400 meters in a time of 54.8, Josh Cousineau in the high jump with a leap of five feet, and Ian Bachand in the discus with a throw of 105 feet, 7.5 inches. Learmonth was also second at 200 meters, and Bachand took second in the shot put (times and distances were only available for first-place efforts).

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