Will Poirier became the first player in Wellsboro history with 50 career goals, and 50 career assists.

This year, we decided to take things up a step with our All-Region soccer teams.

With the fall sports season behind us it is time to start handing out some rewards to recognize the top performances the past few months.

When Ben Knapp was seven years old he was playing catch with his dad.

There wasn’t a Waverly soccer season this fall.

You are looking at a picture of an Eastern Chipmunk feeding on clusters in a sumac tree. Linda took this picture this summer while resting on a bench along the Pine Creek Rail-Trail. It is the first time either of us has seen a chipmunk feeding in a tree. Yet they obviously do feed in trees.

Sayre Borough’s Enterprise Center, that sprawling complex on South Elmer Avenue that once served as a garment-making factory and major employer of the Valley, is a long way from the Atlantic Ocean. But surprisingly, some of the business activity within the building has a direct link to the w…

The NTL has set a start date for league basketball games on Jan. 4.

One day the fall season was lost for PSAC athletes.

The NTL coaches named their cross country all-stars.

If you went off who made the PIAA Cross Country Championships, you may not have realized what kind of success Athens had this year.

The Canton Warriors knew they faced a tough test on Saturday.

Ever since falling in the state quarterfinals to Berlin Brothers Valley 3-0 (25-7, 25-20, 25-19) a season ago, the returning core of the Canton Volleyball team has been thinking about getting back to the quarterfinals, and advancing past said stage.

Sometimes timing is everything.

With eight seniors, it would be easy to focus on the veteran experience the Canton Warrior Volleyball Team has. The Warriors have reached the quarterfinals in back-to-back years now, having defeated District II Champion Blue Ridge Tuesday by a score of 3-0, (25-16, 25-16, 25-8). Seniors Anni…

ATHENS — Not to say that it’s easy, but we’ve often noted the milestone of scoring 1,000 points in basketball over the last dew seasons. What’s more rare is achieving that milestone on the volleyball court.

Multiple Canton Warrior players were on the floor, and all of a sudden a right arm emerged. It was Annie Gaiotti’s, and that arm made a play that will live in Canton Volleyball lore. Her fist closed to avoid a lift call, Gaiotti swung while sitting on the floor, the ball hit the top of the t…

When it comes to the opening round of the PIAA Class A State Volleyball tournament, the Canton Warriors have been there and done that. They’ve played in this round the last three years, and last year they beat Mount Cavalry Christian, 3-1 to advance to the state quarterfinals. This year, the…

Our first bald eagle sighting ever – or at least the first Paula and I can recall – wasn’t exactly a breathtaking encounter with the bird that serves as our national symbol. But the eagle, in fact, was doing what eagles do, picking at a road-killed deer carcass, flanked by patient ravens, as…

The NTL girls’ soccer coaches named their all-star teams.

HERSHEY — When it comes to state cross country, you know you are facing the best runners in the state.

HERSHEY — For a lot of freshmen, nerves can make it tough to run a good race at states.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- During their five-year long rampage through the NTL and District IV, it seemed like North Penn-Liberty Volleyball would never lose a big point again. They always found a way. So, when Wellsboro Middle Hitter Shiloh Duff got a piece of a monster swing from Charisma Grega, the…

On Thursday night, the Athens Wildcats had a chance to do something that their school has not done since 2005. That was to win a volleyball District championship. To get to the District 2/4 finals, the Wildcats had to pull off two upsets as the seventh- seed, including one over one-loss Grea…

LAWRENCEVILLE -- Six weeks ago, No one knew if Canton Volleyball would even get to finish their season. After a COVID outbreak at Canton High School in mid-September grounded all athletic activities to a halt, and with no end to the COVID pandemic in sight, who could blame the Warriors for t…

For the Canton volleyball team, this year was an odd one.

If you visit the Mansfield University campus or take a walk around town, odds are you have witnessed sophomore long distance runner Kevin Heeman, a Wyalusing grad, drenched in sweat preparing for the next time he can compete for the Mountaineers.

The common complaint from many Americans about soccer is that it’s too low scoring, that no one wants to watch a game for an hour and a half with teams struggling to score even once.

After an enormous upset win over Greater Nanticoke, the seventh-seeded Athens Wildcats varsity volleyball team needed just one more win to advance to the District 2/4 AAA finals. On Monday night, the Wildcats would have a date with sixth-seeded Tunkhannock in the semifinals, who needed an up…

CANTON — For the past two years the Muncy Indians have been a thorn in the side of the Canton Warriors.