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  • 3 days ago | tricountyindependent.com | Kevin Edwards

    HONESDALE — While today's column is deeply rooted in the local sports world, more than anything else it's a love story. Our tale features Bob Simons, the shy soft-spoken golf coach who rewrote the PIAA record book, and Ann Marie Gilhool, the bubbly middle school teacher who became the first female athletic director in Wallenpaupack Area history. Despite a nearly 20 year age gap and wildly different personalities, somehow Bob and Ann Marie just clicked.

  • 1 week ago | tricountyindependent.com | Kevin Edwards

    HONESDALE —  An exciting new era is dawning for the Honesdale football program. At their regularly scheduled April 14 meeting, Wayne Highlands School Board members voted 8-0 to hire George Howanitz as varsity football coach. A star player at Valley View who went on to skipper his alma mater for 16 seasons, Howanitz will succeed Paul Russick, who resigned last month to take the job at Pittston Area.

  • 1 week ago | tricountyindependent.com | Kevin Edwards

    HAWLEY — While the 2024-25 high school basketball season is now officially over, the awards and accolades just keep rolling in for a pair of Wallenpaupack Area stars. Ella Smith and Justin Blanding recently put the finishing touches on stellar hoops careers, once again leading the Buckhorns into the District 2 playoffs. And while the girls and boys teams came up short in their quest for tournament titles, Smith and Blanding earned high marks for their leadership abilities on and off the court.

  • 1 week ago | tricountyindependent.com | Kevin Edwards

    NEW MILFORD — Even before the season officially began, Carbondale Area baseball coach Stone Wormuth already knew what the strengths of this year's team would be. “Pitching and defense,” the third year skipper said at Media Day back in March.

  • 1 week ago | tricountyindependent.com | Kevin Edwards

    HONESDALE — Welcome back to “From the Archives” a weekly series of photographs and memories culled from my three decades of covering the tri-county news and sports scene. Today's photo takes us back to the 1970s and the heyday of local youth hoops. Youth hoops historyThe Honesdale Biddy Basketball Association was formed during the winter of 1965-66. In the beginning, the fledgling youth hoops organization was called the Ho-Ca-Hi (short for Honesdale Catholic High) Midget Basketball Association.

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