Mobile health center to set up at Mount Abe

Bristol’s Mountain Health Center, the Body Online Lab at Middlebury College and the Mount Abraham Unified School District are joining forces this fall to launch a school-based health center for students in the 5-Town area.

Following in the footsteps of a coach who led the program for three decades and racked up 11 state titles in the past 21 years, including four straight through 2021, offers a challenge for whoever takes over.

The committee that has been studying the possibility of merging the Bristol-area Mount Abraham Unified School District and Vergennes-area Addison Northwest School District has decided that, yes, those two districts should become one.

Thomas Dickerson just might be at the frontline of a trend reversing the all-too-familiar trend of young people growing up in Vermont then leaving for greener pastures elsewhere.

I am smelling something rotten emanating from my little home town of Bristol, Vt.

Looking back on a competition he took part in late last month, Mount Abraham Union High School senior Ian Goodyear said his nerves had more to do with the crowd watching him compete than the noisy and powerful chainsaw in his hands.

The firing of Connie LaRose, winning girls’ basketball coach at Mt. Abraham Union High School is shocking to me.

Longtime successful Mount Abe coach doesn’t understand why she was fired.

The 103 members of the Mount Abraham Union High School class of 2022 were urged on Saturday to use the resilience, compassion and patience forged through the tumult of more than two years of pandemic pandemonium to make the world a better place.

After two stirring playoff wins to earn the Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative program’s first championship game appearance, the fifth-seeded Eagles had hopes of adding the team’s first title to their résumé.

A strong start in Monday’s Division II final by undefeated Hartford proved to be too much for the Mount Abraham-Vergennes girls’ lacrosse team to overcome in a 10-7 setback.

For the second straight season, the No. 2 Mount Abraham Union softball team won two Division II playoff games, but then came up short vs. No. 3 Enosburg, its Lake Division rival, in a home semifinal.

The second-seeded Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative girls’ lacrosse team got past visiting No. 7 Stowe on Friday, 12-6, in a Division II quarterfinal.

The 29th annual Eagle Basketball Camp will be held in Bristol from June 27 to 30 for grades 2 through high school.

In a game played at Mount Abraham, the Mount Abe-Vergennes girls’ lacrosse team rolled past visiting Milton on Tuesday, 17-0, as five Commodores scored multiple goals.