Local roundup: Windsor boys stun previously unbeaten Rutland
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Modified: 3/15/2021 7:34:52 PM
WINDSOR Owen Abrahamsen had 20 points to help the VPA Division III Windsor High boys basketball team stun previously unbeaten D-I Rutland, 55-50, on Saturday afternoon.
The Yellowjackets took command in the second quarter with a 17-2 run to build a 29-17 lead at halftime. Rutland chipped away from there, rallying to tie the game at 50-50 with 51 seconds left in the fourth.
Windsor made the key plays in the final minute to secure the win. Jordan Place hit a pair of clutch free throws with 13.8 seconds to play to give the hosts a 53-50 lead. After Rutland had to foul again soon after, John Cook stepped to the line to make two of his own to give the hosts an insurmountable 55-50 lead.
Vermont high court upholds conviction in wrong-way crash death of 5
FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file pool photo, Steven Bourgoin watches during his murder trial in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington, Vt. Bourgoin, who was was convicted in May of murder in the deaths of five teenagers killed on an interstate highway in a wrong-way crash, is seeking a new trial. Attorneys for Bourgoin acknowledged he caused the October 2016 crash but said he was insane at the time. (Glenn Russell/VTDigger.org via AP, Pool, File) Glenn Russell
The family of Mary Harris, who was killed along with four other teens in 2016 when Steven Bourgoin collided with her car, reacts as a jury pronounced Bourgoin guilty at Vermont Superior Court in Burlington, Vt., on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. The jury found Bourgoin guilty of murder charges in the October 2016 deaths of five teenagers, caused when he drove the wrong way on an interstate highway. He faces 20-years to life in prison on each count. (Ryan Mercer/Th
Local roundup: Grela’s career-best night caps Windsor’s 8-1 slate
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Modified: 3/12/2021 10:59:38 PM
MANCHESTER, Vt. Windsor High senior Ashley Grela apparently takes the theory of saving the best for last to a literal extent.
Grela came up with a career-best 25 points in her final regular-season high school girls basketball game, leading the Yellowjackets to a 68-48 rout of Burr & Burton on Friday night. The victory guaranteed the Jacks (8-1) a minimum of a top-three seed for the start of the VPA Division III state tournament next week.
Grela sank four of Windsor’s nine 3-pointers in a superior performance. Elliot Rupp had 12 points, and Peyton Richardson netted eight.
COVID-19: NH schedules DHMC vaccination clinic for teachers, other school workers
Modified: 3/11/2021 11:48:19 PM
WEST LEBANON Public health officials are planning two vaccination clinics geared to about 2,000 school employees working on the New Hampshire side of the Upper Valley later this month.
The clinics, slated for March 20 and 27 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, are intended for teachers, bus drivers, classroom aides, substitute teachers and anyone else who is critical to the function of their New Hampshire school regardless of their state of residence, Alice Ely, executive director of the Public Health Council of the Upper Valley, said in an interview Thursday.
The health council is working directly with K-12 schools, both public and private, to identify and register staff who want to be vaccinated. Individuals cannot sign up for these clinics on their own.
High court upholds conviction in wrong-way crash death of 5
March 12, 2021
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) The Vermont Supreme Court on Friday upheld the conviction of the man who drove the wrong-way on Interstate 89 in Richmond in 2016, killing five teenagers.
The court rejected the argument by attorneys for Steven Bourgoin that prosecutors had failed to prove he intended to kill the teenagers and that the trial court admitted undisclosed testimony at the trial. We conclude that this evidence was sufficient for the jury to find that defendant knowingly disregarded his subjective awareness of the very high risk of death or serious bodily injury that his actions posed to other persons driving on the interstate at that time, said the decision, written by Associate Justice Harold Eaton.