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The Cadets are back!
The Norwich University Athletics Department announced its planned 2021 winter sports schedules, noting that all may change because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Norwich athletics paused Jan. 28 because of an increase in the Norwich campus community’s COVID-19-positive case count. Starting Monday, Feb. 15, all seven winter sports athletics teams and the seven spring sports will begin practice.
The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) is expected to decide the status of spring-sport league schedules and championship tournaments next week.
Norwich University has worked with state and local health officials to formulate return-to-play guidelines that prioritize health and safety for student-athletes, coaches, staff and the campus and local communities. The Vermont Health Department has approved the plan.
After a year-long analysis, consultants hired by Kingdom Trails Association (KTA) recommend building a new welcome center in East Burke Village and creating new access points and parking for its popular 80-mile trail network.
KTA, a nonprofit organization, manages a spiderweb of trails around the village of East Burke, extending west into Lyndon on both sides of Darling Hill Road and east into East Haven. The network relies on the generosity of over 90 private landowners, who allow trails on their properties without compensation. A decade of rapid growth led to stress on residents, landowners, and infrastructure. In December 2019, three landowners along Darling Hill decided to no longer allow bike access on their properties. The restricted land totals hundreds of acres and contains some of the networkâs most popular and beginner trails.