The winter of 2023-2024 treated Vergennes Union High School sports teams pretty well. Addison Northwest School District Athletics Director Peter Maneen filled the Independent in on the teams’ outlook for the 2024-2025 winter.
Almost half of the Vergennes Union High School building will get new roofing starting next June at a cost of $672,477.
Local youth rowing teams gathered at Vergennes Falls Park on Saturday, Nov. 1, for a festive finale to their Vermont fall open-water rowing season, all while donning their Halloween costumes!
Each year a Vergennes Union High School senior is chosen for the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Good Citizen’s Award by faculty members nominating three seniors and then the senior class elects one of those three as their Good Citizen.
The Vergennes Union High School Class of 2025 set a goal of raising $3,500 for its Senior Walkathon, which was held on a cool and mostly cloudy Thursday, Oct. 24, on behalf of the Wounded Warrior Project.
Emma Bryant and Christopher Robinson certainly had a noteworthy meet-cute.
Tamara Aunchman was a senior at Vergennes Union High School when she met a junior named Austin Brown in an engineering class at the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center.
The MUHS girls’ and boys’ cross-country teams finished 3rd and 5th, respectively, in the D-II Cross Country Championships in Thetford on Saturday. Estella Laird was the top female in all divisions.
In a typically hard-fought duel on Saturday between the rivals, the host Eagles earned a 2-0 victory over the Commodores in what was the final regular season game for both squads.
The Division II Mount Abraham girls’ soccer team achieved its main objectives on Tuesday at Vergennes, playing crisply, passing the ball and defending well, and coming away with a 3-1 victory.
Burr & Burton took 1st place in both boys’ and girls’ races on Sept. 20 at the Middlebury Invitational cross country meet, but the host Tigers were 2nd.
After three quick strikes into the back of the net from Vergennes Union High School freshman forward Sophia James on Saturday, the visiting Lyndon girls’ soccer team was out of the game. The Vikings, who showed up with just 11 players in steamy weather, w … (read more)
The most successful teams at Vergennes Union High School in 2023 were arguably cross country and girls’ soccer, with the former taking fifth in Division II and the latter winning a playoff game for the first time in four years.
All four local high school golf teams were in action yesterday, and in three competitions they netted a medalist, a co-medalist, and a team tie for first place.
Cross-country runners from Middlebury, Mount Abraham and Vergennes competed at this past Saturday’s season-opening Essex Invitational meet, which drew high school competitors from all Vermont divisions.
