Sports

Let there be light! The Otter Valley Football Club realized a longstanding dream this past weekend: lights on Markowski Field at OVUHS.

Almost everyone in the Brandon area has been touched in one way or another by Naylor & Breen, the construction company founded by Rob Naylor and Peter Breen in 1978.

This year’s Independence Day Celebration Duckie Race on Saturday, July 6 had more drama than a Joan Crawford film festival!

Joey Scarborough was driving racecars years before he even had a license to drive himself to school.

Skip Jennings, 93 years old, led off the tournament with a beautiful drive right down the middle of the fairway on hole #1.

Growing up in New Hampshire, David Belanger was a big fan of Ip Man, a Chinese martial artist who taught the legendary Bruce Lee.

After the Brandon Country Club closed in 1944, the town went without a golf course for thirteen years until, in 1957, a group of Brandon golfers started investigating places in town to build a new one.

Vermont’s top wrestlers competed in the “House of Noise” at OV last Friday and Saturday. One hundred and fifty-one competitors on 25 teams vied for the individual and team state championships.

A $1,000 check was presented to OV senior Cassy Sue Thompson by Wrestling Alumni Association President Richard Kepner last week.

After the first Neshobe Golf Club folded in 1903, the town of Brandon went without a golf course for the next 24 years.