Person of the Week • Published Apr 02, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Emi Bisson spent her tenure with Valley Regional being one of the more stronger and decorated players in the girls’ lacrosse program. Utilizing the ultimate asset of conf...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 05, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
When it comes to her skill set and acumen with the game of lacrosse, Rowan Pilon takes a slow but steady approach of improving herself every instance of every day. That g...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 28, 2024 08 am
By Rita Christopher
It’s not like herding cats, but nonetheless, Lily Farrell has a lot of small bodies to keep track of these days. Lily is in charge of the mini-munchkins. Let there be no ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 27, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
The game of baseball often imitates life and instills great lessons from it. It often showcases the idea that when you persist with positivity, you can truly ascend. This...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 21, 2024 08 am
By Rita Christopher
You want to swim, bike, and run? You want to do it competitively? If so, you want to do a triathlon. That is what Bob Merrick does. A triathlon is an outdoor event, but B...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 14, 2024 08 am
By Rita Christopher
When Trey Neubert went to a general meeting of local Lions clubs, he was mistaken for the son of an attendee. Oops, try that again: Trey, at 21, is the president of the D...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 31, 2024 08 am
What to do about February? The excitement of the holidays is over. Early spring flowers have not yet pushed through the soil to herald the warmer weather. The month can s...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 30, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
No matter where the ball lands once he fires it from his hands, whether off the iron or tickling the twine, Noah Dolinsky takes a new piece of information from each strik...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 23, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Basketball is an imperfect game, with many flaws that can occur in a given play. It serves as a great metaphor for life in making the best out of any setbacks or disappoi...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 17, 2024 08 am
There’s an old military truism: never volunteer. That would not do for Tania Crosby. For 25 years, as an accountant, she has been doing the books as treasurer of the Deep...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Cade Ensinger underwent a maturation process during his time at Valley Regional into a leader and First Team all-league competitor. Yet now as a Warrior of a different il...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 03, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
When it comes to Valley Unified Sports, there is not a contest or competition that Allison Connell has not conquered and mastered. Yet more importantly, she has done it w...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 27, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
Dog has been championed as man’s best friend, with a special bond that is shared between both parties. Yet for Ainsley Strecker, she is adding an addendum to that express...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 27, 2023 08 am
By Rita Christopher
Katelyn Ely will participate in an American rite of passage this March: she will go to Disney World.
But Kate’s trip is not just another long-anticipated family excursion...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 19, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
Eli Sahadi always had the passion to play football and the athletic acumen to perform on the field, and he took full advantage of the opportunity to showcase that to the ...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 13, 2023 02 pm
By John Lecardo
Once Clara Shea first grasped a field hockey stick in junior high, she knew it was something she could truly sink her teeth into and advance far within the sport. And bac...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 07, 2023 10 am
By John Lecardo
From starting in dance as soon as she was old enough to do so, and participating in her inaugural solo within competitive dancing from the age of 8, Chloe Alsback’s undyi...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 28, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
Support has been at the center of Abby Reardon’s relationship with the sport of field hockey. She had tremendous encouragement from peers and coaches to grasp the game ra...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 21, 2023 02 pm
By John Lecardo
In such a short stint, Hallie Moore has not only had a meteoric rise up the varsity ladder for the Valley Regional volleyball team, but she has additionally earned the re...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 15, 2023 10 am
By John Lecardo
From essentially the first time he could walk, Deryck Llivichuzca’s moving feet were always accompanied by a soccer ball. It was that passion and devotion to the game tha...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 24, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
The long and winding course that has been Holly Board’s race within athletics has gone down many paths, but it has come full circle by reigniting her passion for running ...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 24, 2023 11 am
By Rita Christopher
Angus McDonald, Jr. remembers the telephone call almost eight years ago when he learned that longtime Deep River First Selectman Dick Smith had died of a heart attack. An...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 20, 2023 06 pm
By Rita Christopher
Once, some four decades ago, Jonathan Jacobson made videos that delighted friends and classmates at Chester Elementary School.
Now, those friends are still delighted, sen...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 18, 2023 06 am
By John Lecardo
In team sports, one can learn a lot about themselves through a devastating personal setback. For Madeline Siegel, her hurdle paved the way to a two-way lane to long-term ...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 11, 2023 09 am
By John Lecardo
Liam Welch’s journey within the sport of soccer did take a lengthy pause and sabbatical, but the passion for the pitch always lied deep within him, and he is very thankfu...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 05, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
Ella Smith took right to the sport of soccer ever since she first laced up her cleats in her formative grade school years, and her efforts and desires to succeed have par...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 28, 2023 07 am
By Rita Christopher
Margaret Very was there at the beginning 40 years ago, on the board of trustees, when the Community Music School (CMS) in Centerbrook started. Now, she is on the board ag...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 27, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
With so many constant moving pieces on the chess board that is a volleyball court during any given match, keeping the lines of communication freely flowing is a big indic...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 13, 2023 03 pm
By Rita Christopher
Autumn means school starting, leaves changing color, and Christmas advertisements appearing well before Thanksgiving. But local music lovers know the Robbie Collomore Con...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 05, 2023 02 pm
By John Lecardo
This summer across the shoreline within the Deep River Horseshoe League, one of the biggest stories of the campaign was the rapid and meteoric rise and emergence of a you...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 31, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
The Valley Regional High School Class of 2023 was full of decorated student-athletes, but when looking at it on a closer scope through the lens of the girls’ basketball p...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 29, 2023 10 am
A good meal is its own reward, but at the upcoming Chester Rotary Lobster Festival, a good meal will also provide a chance for people to support the rotary’s community pr...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 23, 2023 06 am
By Rita Christopher
Deer Lake in Killingworth was once a Boy Scout camp. Deep River resident Tom Feiner knows because he was once a camper. But now the camp, which the Boy Scouts sold in 202...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 11, 2023 05 am
By John Lecardo
Brotherhood through struggles and achieving strength and victory has truly attracted Adam Metz to the gridiron, and now after a long standing career within the game, he g...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 03, 2023 09 am
By Rita Christopher
Clint Reid calls the Community Foundation of Middlesex County (CFMC) a force multiplier, and as chair of the board of directors, he is not talking the language of “Star W...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 02, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
The bond between human beings and animals is one that has been unbroken for centuries and yields the greatest qualities among both parties involved. Addison Keyworth has ...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 25, 2023 11 pm
By John Lecardo
The more grueling a game is, quite often the deeper the connections that are cultivated through the grind. The theorem is certainly bolstered when it comes to Nick Cox’s ...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 18, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
For Maizy Libby, playing goalie in lacrosse, much less continuing it in college, was the furthest thing on her mind upon first stepping foot onto the campus of Valley Reg...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 14, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
Ben Costanzo tried different sports such as soccer and baseball growing up and drew upon experiences from each endeavor, but it all paved the way towards him becoming one...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 06, 2023 06 am
By Rita Christopher
So you want to be on television? Emily Miner is the person to know. Emily, who grew up in Deep River, where she still lives, is the public access coordinator at Valley Sh...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 04, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
For Shep Whitney, blood is thicker than a tennis racquet as the youngster has the game in his lineage, and he loves getting that same blood pumping while swiftly moving f...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 01, 2023 10 am
By John Lecardo
Charlie Whelan himself admits that he is not the most athletic guy or type, yet when it comes to tennis, he certainly has proven himself wrong by being a courageous and h...
Person of the Week • Published Jun 24, 2023 05 am
By John Lecardo
Natalie Novak showed her stuff as the ultimate team player and courageous competitor–suddenly stepping up to a higher rank on her squad, standing tall on that elevated pe...
Person of the Week • Published Jun 17, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
For many high school athletes, a tenure as a student-athlete is marred with moments and lessons in mental growth. With Ashley Cap’s time with the Valley Regional girls’ t...
Person of the Week • Published Jun 09, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
Playing on varsity as a freshman can be daunting enough, much less doing it as a starter on a very young squad. Yet Kellyn Kolber has cultivated great composure by starti...
Person of the Week • Published May 30, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
No matter which time of the year Mykenzie Parker has a stick in her hand for Valley Regional High School, she does it with great pride in her squad and equal satisfaction...
Person of the Week • Published May 27, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
Even from his days of pee wee soccer, Leif Duval’s parents knew he was meant to make contact on whatever field of play he was a part of–something that is clearly evident ...
Person of the Week • Published May 16, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
No matter it being on a soccer pitch, within the confines of the Floyd Little Athletic Center on the high jump, or upon the lacrosse turf, Reagan Doyon has been an incred...
Person of the Week • Published May 13, 2023 09 am
By John Lecardo
Throughout her vast and various experiences with softball, Anna Benson knows the game can exercise someone’s brain as well as their brawn, and she has been a sound mind, ...
Person of the Week • Published May 04, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
Lucas Rogers knew that the final year of his career with the Valley Regional baseball team would prove to be a pivotal one, and so he diligently put in the extra time and...
