New Hampshire Wildcats (14-9, 6-4 America East) at Vermont Catamounts (19-6, 9-1 America East)
Vermont
Bogues and Vermont host New Hampshire
The Wildcats are 6-4 in conference games. New Hampshire is second in the America East with 27.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Clarence O. Daniels II averaging 7.9.
Vermont makes 46.7% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.5 percentage points higher than New Hampshire has allowed to its opponents (42.2%). New Hampshire has shot at a 42.3% clip from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points higher than the 41.2% shooting opponents of Vermont have averaged.
The Catamounts and Wildcats meet Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: TJ Long is scoring 12.2 points per game and averaging 3.8 rebounds for the Catamounts.
Jaxson Baker averages 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, scoring 11.9 points while shooting 36.8% from beyond the arc.
LAST 10 GAMES: Catamounts: 9-1, averaging 71.5 points, 36.7 rebounds, 14.3 assists, 6.7 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 61.0 points per game.
Wildcats: 6-4, averaging 73.5 points, 36.3 rebounds, 9.9 assists, 7.2 steals and 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 42.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.9 points.
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (Aging Untold) — For 10 days, the Champlain Valley Fair, a county fair in Vermont, becomes its own little town with thousands of people, hot afternoons and the occasional emergency.
Charlene Phelps, 74, runs the fair’s emergency response team.
“We have a lot of seniors that come and people don’t drink enough water,” Phelps said.
The team handles sprains, bee stings, heat exhaustion and whatever comes through.
“I like taking care of people, I like helping people,” Phelps said.
Living out a childhood dream
It’s also a childhood dream.
Phelps wanted to be a nurse, but college wasn’t possible, so she found another route into care and has been showing up year after year at the fair.
Aging Untold expert Amy O’Rourke said living out your purpose can improve mental and spiritual well-being.
“When you tap into that, you’re tapping in on a place that’s a risk, that’s a challenge that inevitably creates growth inside you, gives you confidence so that if you’re in another situation you can build on that,” O’Rourke said. “Or, if you’re in an everyday situation where you’re a little anxious, it’ll help create stabilization in that place as well.”
Saving lives at the fair
Sometimes it’s bigger than a bandage.
“Over on there near the swings way over there is Gustovo, and we saved his life,” Phelps said.
Gustovo had gone into cardiac arrest at the fair a few years ago.
“I mean he was gone,” Phelps said.
Now he’s back and working the rides.
“Came for my hug, Gustovo,” Phelps said.
O’Rourke said stories like this are also why some people keep working past retirement age. Purpose isn’t a number, it’s a role.
“I’ve seen a 92-year-old still working as a nurse’s aid. I’ve seen people in my neighborhood chilling out and loving it,” O’Rourke said. “So, I think it’s being really self-aware of what you need and making sure that you’re getting those needs met.”
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A plan by Gov. Phil Scott’s administration to make all of the state’s lottery games, including scratch-off tickets, available on a person’s phone never got off the ground at the Statehouse this year.
Lottery Commissioner Wendy Knight told lawmakers in January that the plan was a way to modernize the lottery “because you need to keep pace with technology — you need to meet your players where they are.”
Fifteen states have created a “digital” lottery system, and many have discovered there’s a distinct market of people who don’t buy lottery tickets at retail outlets but will do so on their phones, according to Knight. “We’re trying to ensure the future of the Vermont Lottery, ” the commissioner said.
But state lawmakers have not been persuaded.
Vergennes Rep. Matt Birong, the Democratic chair of the House government operations committee, said members of the panel felt this year was not the time to move forward with this plan, especially given the recent legalization of sports betting.
“It is digitizing a current system and after moving forward with the sports wagering — people just wanted to take their time with it — so my committee decided to tap the brakes on further testimony.”
The administration estimated that the plan would have raised roughly $5 million a year for the state’s education fund after two years of implementation.
The prospect of that additional revenue is appealing to lawmakers, and Birong said they may reconsider the plan next year.
BOLTON, Vt. (WCAX) – A wrong-way driver was safely stopped on Interstate 89 overnight Sunday.
Vermont State Police say just before 12:30 a.m., they stopped the car near marker 77, near Bolton.
The driver, Denise Lear, 60, of Revere, was charged with driving under the influence and gross negligent operation.
Lear is expected in court Monday.
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