Page 5 - Sam Rowley News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Voting is now open for the prestigious Natural History Museum award

This November, artists from around the globe will donate their work to a fundraising art auction in aid of Arms Around The Child,

Mayfield girls, Queensbury boys open Nordic ski season with wins | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS PHOTOGRAPHER: Mayfield's Fianna Halloran powers her way to the finish line at Cole's Woods Wednesday in the opening Nordic ski invitational of the year. (Stan Hudy) Shares0 GLENS FALLS — When Winter Storm Gail brought more than 30 inches of snow to some places in the greater Capital Region earlier this month, Section II Nordic skiers rejoiced. Then, warmer temperatures and rain dampened their spirits — and left them scrambling to find a suitable course for Wednesday’s season-opening Shenendehow...

Ski Lines: Section II skiers ready to race | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 No, not the blizzard last week that has all our areas open for business for the holidays.   (But that is a good one.) Instead, it was tiny Mayfield, led by state champion Madison Relyea, winning the Section II girls’ cross country championship last February, beating a field of rivals from schools with much larger enrollments. Remember the film about the small school in Indiana beating all the bigs to win the state basketball championship? Think of Mayfield as “Hoosiers” on snow.  Well, we now have snow ag...

An Andover teenager has won the top prize for their wildlife photography in the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards. Ellis Owen’s picture, ‘Urban Kingfisher’, beat off competition from more than 11,000 others to win the 12-15 category. The 15-year-old took a picture of a female Kingfisher sitting on railings in the town centre, next to the River Anton. The prize includes a “prestigious” trophy, an exclusive photoshoot at an RSPCA animal centre, £350 of Amazon vouchers and a PIR Motion Sensor and cable. Ellis said: “I am so pleased the judges liked my photo. “This image wa...