Four Vermont Green FC men’s players have been named by United Soccer Coaches to the 2025 Hermann Trophy Midseason Watch List. David Ajagbe, Enzo Dovlo, Maximilian Kissel, and Zach Zengue are among the 31 NCAA Men’s Division I players on the list, recognized for their play in the first half of their collegiate seasons.

Ajagbe has scored six goals and added two assists in ten matches. The University of Portland winger is eighth in the nation in game-winning goals.

Dovlo currently ranks seventh in the nation in total points (20), 11th in assists (6) and 13th in goals (7). The UNCG winger also leads the SoCon in each of those statistical categories. 

Kissel has four goals and three assists in ten matches for UVM. Two of his four goals have come after the 86th minute.

Zengue is leading Georgetown in scoring with 10 goals and four assists for 24 points on the season. He is fifth in the nation in total goals, and is fifth in the country in points.

The Hermann Trophy is presented annually by the Missouri Athletic Club and is the nation’s highest individual honor recognizing the National Player of the Year as determined by voting of Division I head coaches.

The 2025 midseason watch list was compiled by members of the Hermann Trophy Midseason Watch List Committee. A total of 15 players will be named 2025 Hermann Trophy semifinalists on December 9 at the conclusion of NCAA Division I All-American voting. From that list, head coaches will cast votes, and three players will be named finalists. The 2025 recipient will be announced January 9, 2026, in a ceremony at the historic Missouri Athletic Club in downtown St. Louis, Mo.

Congratulations to David, Enzo, Maxi, and Zach for the midseason recognition!

Born March 2, 1933

Aurora, Illinois

Died Sept. 10, 2025

Dummerston, Vermont

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A music-filled service of remembrance and celebration will be held for Larry at 2:00 PM on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro, VT. A reception will follow at the Guilford Community Church in Guilford, VT.

The Reverend Dr. Larrimore C. Crockett, 92, died in his home in Dummerston, Vermont on September 10, 2025, surrounded by family. 

Larry was born March 2, 1933 in Aurora, IL, and spent his early years living in the Midwest. The son of the Reverends Barney C. Crockett and Olga Winter Crockett, he carried the family’s ministerial tradition into a long and respected career as a religious scholar and beloved preacher in the United Church of Christ. After completing seminary at Chicago Theological Seminary he was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1957 in Dummerston, Vermont. He divided his time serving church communities in Vermont and Rhode Island, earning a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1966, where he also served as Chaplain.  

In the early 1970s he was Associate Professor of Religion at Keuka College (Keuka Park, NY), and Visiting Professor of Religion at Lawrence University (Appleton, WI). In 1973 Larry moved with his family back to Vermont where they built a home on the side of Black Mountain in Dummerston, a place he loved very much. Between 1973 and 1994, he enjoyed a rich employment experience in area churches and higher education. He taught and served in administrative roles at Windham College and Southern Vermont College. He served the Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ, as Moderator of the Windham-Union Association. He helped create the Vermont Academy of Spiritual Training (VAST), and served on its faculty for several years. In later years he was the Pastor-in-residence at Chicago Theological Seminary and adjunct faculty at Bangor Theological Seminary.

In 1980 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities by the College of St. Joseph, Rutland (VT) in recognition of his contributions to higher education in Vermont. From 1985-1997 he was Assistant Minister of the Guilford Community Church, serving with his wife, Shirley, who was the minister. This partnership and ministry in Guilford was one of the most satisfying experiences of his life and led to his writing a history of the Guilford Church, Safe Thus Far, which was published by Black Mountain Press in 1998 and dedicated to Shirley. He subsequently published books of Shirley’s children stories, The Mended Cup (2003), I Invite the Children to Come Forward (2010), her pastoral prayers, Be Present Here (2008) and several volumes of family history. 

Larry enjoyed researching and writing about his understanding of religious thought and published articles in academic journals throughout his early life. Later, he turned to writing about people who had an impact on his life and in 2010 he wrote and published a history of the Blanche Moyse Chorale, More Than Thirty Years of Glorious Sound. For over seventeen years he maintained a blog at vividreports.blogspot.com. His sermons were grounded in scholarly research but he was able to convey his messages of radical love, inclusion, and forgiveness through language and stories that connected meaningfully to his parishioners’ lives. Larry continued to be active in local congregations for the entirety of his life. His kindness, his thoughtful manner, and his sincere interest in others were blessings to all who knew him.

One of Larry’s greatest passions in life was his love of music. He served as director of church choirs in Guilford and Dummerston and brought his resonant bass voice to many music projects in the region. He was a longtime member of the Blanche Moyse Chorale and participated in several world music groups such as The River Singers where he met his second wife, Ellen Tolles. On June 19, 2005 they were married and embarked on a musical adventure with their shared passion. Immersed in a loving church and music community they explored multiple genres of choral music from classical pieces to hymns and traditional folk song and brought comfort to people in Hospice care, senior homes, and hospitals through their work with the Hospice-related chorus, Hallowell.  

Larry was active in his community, serving on several boards in the Brattleboro Area including Brattleboro Hospice, the Brattleboro Music Center and Sojourns Community Health Clinic. He was deeply concerned about local, national and world issues. He participated in the Selma-Montgomery March in 1965, was a frequent participant in anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s and supported environmental and sustainability issues.

He was predeceased by Shirley Harris Crockett, his wife of 43 years; his brother Stewart Crockett of Elgin , IL; and his daughter, Betsey Crockett Shay. In addition to his wife, Ellen, he is survived by his son, John Crockett (Cynthia Hughes), of Westminster West, VT; his granddaughter, Katherine “Katie” Shay of St. Louis, MO; several nieces and nephews and their families; and, through Ellen, a large family of children, grandchildren and siblings.  

Larry found his highest fulfillment in caring for and nurturing others, both individually and in organizations, through his beloved family, his many friends, his vocation as a minister, teacher, counselor and administrator, his community involvement, and through his singing. His family extends their deepest gratitude to those who brought Larry delight and peace in his last days through companionship and song.

A bitter debate in Danville about whether to close the town’s high school underscores the uncertainty many Vermont schools face as the state prepares to overhaul its education system.

The Danville school board reluctantly announced this week that they would hold a special town-wide referendum on Dec. 6 on whether to close the school and instead offer families vouchers to the school of their choice. It comes after a local parent submitted a petition requesting the vote.

But within days after that petition was submitted, the town clerk reported that more than a dozen people asked for their signatures to be withdrawn. Michelle Leclerc, the Danville treasurer, told Vermont Public on Thursday that people had written to her office saying they had been “misinformed” and given “false information.”

For now, the petition still has enough signatures to require the vote. But more still could ask to remove their names before Nov. 4, she said, when the school board is scheduled to sign a warrant for the referendum.

The contention in Danville has been prompted by a sweeping education reform effort Gov. Phil Scott signed into law this July that could usher in widespread consolidation. A special task force is now at work on proposals for new school district maps, which lawmakers will consider when they return to the Statehouse this winter.

What’s afoot in Montpelier has left local school officials bracing for impact, but also unsure of what reform could mean for them. And Danville, which operates one of the last remaining public high schools in the Northeast Kingdom, also faces a unique set of circumstances.

The closest alternative, St. Johnsbury Academy, is private, and the role that one of its teachers — Vermont Senate Minority Leader Scott Beck — has had in encouraging the vote to close has prompted outcry among the Danville School’s supporters.

“It’s reprehensible, and I think the voters are going to see that right away,” one resident, Eric Hutchins, told the school board during a raucous meeting Tuesday evening.

Small schools like Danville, where the high school enrollment hovers around 80 pupils, are deeply fearful the law, known as Act 73 could force them to close. And in recent weeks, Beck has warned school officials in Danville, as well as nearby Cabot — whose high school is even smaller — that it may be now or never if they want to decide their own fate.

Beck, a Caledonia County Republican, has told local school board members that it’s likely lawmakers will pass a measure in the upcoming legislative session that could remove a district’s ability to turn to school choice in the event that it closes a school. Instead, he’s said, a community might be required to select three public schools to send their children. For Danville, where the nearest large high schools are all private, that could be a problem.

But other lawmakers have pushed back, saying it would be unwise for communities to act in haste based on conjecture.

“Trying to predict the future of Act 73 is a fool’s errand,” Peter Conlon, the chair of the House Education Committee, told Seven Days.

In Cabot, school officials have since decided to take a wait-and-see approach. The board shelved a survey last week it had planned to send to residents, which included Beck’s warning that school choice could go away for good unless communities make the switch now. But in Danville, the petition — which was organized by a local parent who also happens to be a St. Johnsbury Academy teacher — has tied the board’s hands.

On Tuesday evening, Danville school board members told a crowded gymnasium of residents they had no desire to close the high school.

Clayton Cargill, the school board chair, nodded in agreement as residents filed up to the microphone to accuse Beck of fearmongering in an attempt to funnel more students to St. Johnsbury Academy, his employer.

“I feel lied to,” Cargill said at one point.

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Beck, in an interview after the meeting, said that he had offered the advice in good faith. He noted that a measure that would have disallowed districts from turning to choice was included in earlier drafts of Act 73, and only removed during end-stage negotiations.

Besides, he said, the school he teaches at has more than 900 pupils, so it doesn’t need Danville’s students to stay afloat.

“They’re not critical to St. Johnsbury Academy. I mean, if they wanted to come, we’d certainly welcome them, but the school has been around for a long time,” he said.

Peter Mantius, the Danville parent who organized the petition, also works as a teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy. And while he said he didn’t ask for the vote to benefit his employer, he said his experience there had allowed him to see first-hand what the school offers.

“This is something that I think I have a front row seat to, and I sometimes wish that the friends and community that my children are with had the same opportunities,” he said.

Overwhelmingly, speakers at Tuesday’s board meeting were there to argue for Danville high school’s continued existence.

David Warren, a veteran teacher at Danville, said it should be noted that nearby Lyndon Institute and St. Johnsbury Academy are both private.

“They don’t have to take your kids,” he said. “And how do I know that? Because we’ve been giving kids from those two schools here at Danville a second chance — a first chance — because they couldn’t make it at a bigger school for the 27 years I’ve been here.”

Several students said they liked Danville’s small size.

“I am not a student who struggles academically, but the thought of a newer and bigger classroom setting makes me question my academic future,” Jordan Sullivan-Stevens, an eighth grader, told the board.

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But there were dissenters. Sophomores Bella Stebbins and Ash Bedard filed up to the microphone together. Stebbins complained about behavioral problems at Danville, and Bedard followed after to say the school was limited in what it could provide.

Bedard said she knew they were both “disagreeing with everybody here.” But “other schools have more to offer in educational and extracurricular activities,” she said.

Most people left the Danville gymnasium Tuesday evening after they had said their piece. But Danville’s school board members remained, workshopping a letter to the state’s redistricting task force.

“We are at risk of making a very reactionary decision that will change this town considerably in unforeseen ways,” they wrote in their letter.

“Beholden to the whims of your Task Force, and more broadly, the State Legislature,” the letter continued, “…we are forced to assume and plan for the worst case scenario, and do everything in our power to prevent it.”

“And so our ask to you,” they added, “is to give us clarity.”