WRV senior trio has known success in different softball guises
Fiona Vaillancourt of White River Valley winds up to pitch at Woodstock on Thursday, May 27, 2021. White River Valley won 23 - 7. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Chelsea Trask, left, warms up on deck as her White River Valley teammate Toni Turner, waits at center during their game with Woodstock Thursday, May 27, 2021. Teammates Trask, Turner and Fiona Vaillancourt played for the Whitchester softball team, formed when neither the Rochester and Whitcomb high schools had enough players to field their own full team. They’re now seniors playing for the undefeated White River Valley, which was created when South Royalton and Whitcomb combined into a new school district with Act 46 in 2018. White River Valley won the game 23-7. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted
Local roundup: Woodstock boys lax knocks CVU from unbeaten ranks
Ethan Mello
Modified: 5/25/2021 11:24:55 PM
HINESBURG, Vt. Message sent.
The Woodstock High boys lacrosse team broadcast its intention to make a serious run at a VPA Division I state championship by going on the road and knocking off unbeaten division leader CVU, 8-6, final on Tuesday afternoon.
The Wasps (10-1) entered the day ranked fourth in D-I entering the final few days of the regular season.
“It was just a great team win, top to bottom. I’m really proud of the guys,” Woodstock coach Brandon Little said. “It was hard-fought. CVU is a strong team, as they always are.”
Police: Couple went on crime spree
Kevin Allen Bent (Vermont State Police photograph)
Amanda L. Conant (Vermont State Police photograph)
Modified: 5/24/2021 10:12:45 PM
EAST RANDOLPH Police have charged a man with ties to the White River Valley in a string of property crimes that ended Friday evening with his arrest in East Randolph after he’d stolen a septic truck, police said. A woman who police said joined in the commission of those crimes remains at large.
Kevin Allen Bent, 32, and Amanda L. Conant, 30, broke into homes in several Vermont towns between May 10 and 21, police said in a news release. Before those events, both Bent and Conant had active arrest warrants issued in mid-April for failing to appear in court on prior charges.
A Life: Sue Barnaby; ‘She so believed in play as learning’
Susan Barnaby reads to some of her nieces and nephews and other Tunbridge children during the time when she was running a home day care in the 1990s. (Family photograph)
Susan Barnaby holds her daughter, Erin, who is now 36, at the child s baptism at Tunbridge Congregational Church. With her are her mother, Elaine Cilley, left, and her grandmother, Ruby Keyser. Barnaby s family has been in Tunbridge since the 1790s. (Family photograph)
Susan Cilley, later Barnaby, back left, with her siblings, clockwise from back right, Patricia, Brenda and Dennis, in a photograph from the 1960s. (Family photograph)
Local roundup: Thetford’s Marshis tosses no-hitter to top Oxbow
Ethan Marshia
Modified: 5/22/2021 11:42:30 PM
BRADFORD, Vt. Two of Thetford Academy baseball’s three losses this season have been no-hitters. On Saturday at Oxbow High, the Panthers were finally on the right side of that feat.
Junior Ethan Marshia dominated against the Olympians, holding them hitless in a 4-0 Thetford win. Two walks and an error separated Marshia from a perfect game. He struck out eight in his complete-game no-hitter.
“Ethan pitched extremely well today,” Panthers head coach Phil Chaput said. “He mostly used his fastball to keep Oxbow hitters off balance early and used his breaking ball in the late innings to continue to keep them off balance.”