On Tuesday, Oct. 8, Jade Garceau, Emma Caster, Erin Jackson, and Kirby King represented BFA-St. Albans and Missisquoi Valley Union in the Division I Girls Golf State Tournament at Burlington Country Club. BFA-St. Albans finished 5th, Emma Caster was 14th with a score of 123, Erin Jackson was 24th with a score of 145, and Jade Garceau was 25th with a score of 147. Jade also recorded a par on number 8. BCC is a very tough 18-hole course to play.

With the conclusion of the match, Kirby (MVU) was a welcome addition to the Comet Golf team. She completed her 4-year golf career and tied for 9th with a score of 114 for MVU.

Jade and Erin will be missed next season, as their consistent play and positive attitudes over the last two years added a lot to the Comet Golf Team. Emma Caster, in her second year as a sophomore, showed continued improvement, and we look forward to her having an excellent year next season.

STOWE, Vt. (WCAX) – Artists rushed to save their work after the Stowe foliage arts festival’s big tent blew down.

“When we pulled in, my husband had made a comment that the tent’s look really small. I looked around and said, ‘Well that’s because there’s an entire tent that has collapsed,” Kate Slocum of Northfield said.

This was local artist Kate Slocum’s first year setting up a booth at the festival.

But she’s now one of many packing up her things, and heading home, after wind knocked down the tent early Saturday morning.

“We were looking forward to a very successful day today, and we came to this devastation instead. Helping other vendors here clean up, go through their items,” Slocum said.

For more than four decades, the festival has been a staple for fall in Vermont.

Over 150 artists come from all across the country to show off their work, like artist Alexa Varano.

This would have been her third year at the festival, an opportunity that’s become crucial for business, during Vermont’s biggest weekend for foliage tourism.

“The last two years I averaged around seventy five hundred in sales, so that’s a pretty good show for three days. Yesterday I did okay, a little over two thousand. Large projected loss definitely in profit. Probably about five to six thousand. Kind of leaving a lot of questions for us I think because I don’t think it should have gone down with the wind,” Varano said.

As organizers scramble to pick up the pieces, they still aren’t sure what went wrong.

“I look at the weather every day. Multiple days out. When I looked yesterday, it was showing fifteen – seventeen today, which is breezy but not disastrous. This tent was supposed to be ready for eighty mile an hour winds, but you see the result of it,” Tim Cianciola of the Stowe Foliage Arts Festival said.

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The 2024 Vermont high school fall season has begun. See below for scores, schedules and game details (statistical leaders, game notes) from soccer, field hockey, volleyball, golf and cross-country running.

To report scores: Coaches or team representatives are asked to report results ASAP after games by emailing sports@burlingtonfreepress.com. Please submit with a name/contact number.

►Contact Alex Abrami at aabrami@freepressmedia.com. Follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter: @aabrami5.

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SATURDAY’S COLLEGE GAMES

Women’s hockey

Merrimack at Vermont, 3 p.m.

Men’s hockey

Vermont at St. Thomas, 7 p.m.

Men’s soccer

NJIT at Vermont, 1 p.m.

SATURDAY’S H.S. GAMES

Football

See Week 7 scoreboard for schedule, results

Boys soccer

Milton at Vergennes, noon

Field hockey 

Otter Valley at Woodstock, 11 a.m.

SUNDAY’S COLLEGE GAMES

Women’s soccer

Vermont at UMass Lowell, 1 p.m.

(Subject to change)