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3 weeks ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

SWANZEY CENTER — Each of the last two seasons, the Monadnock baseball team has been ripe with star power. In winning three state titles over four years, the Huskies have always had an alpha at the center of it all, a dominating force in Division III. Cam Olivo won D-III Player of the Year in 2023. Ben Dean took the honor last year as he led the Huskies back to the top of the mountain. This year, odds are against a Husky getting a Player of the Year nod for the third consecutive season.

3 weeks ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

On a picture-perfect day, history was celebrated and history was made in the 129th running of the Boston Marathon Monday. Of the 30,000 runners to toe the line on Marathon Way in Hopkinton on Monday, 15 locals from the Monadnock Region crossed the finish line by Copley Square. Among the local highlights was retired Keene State math professor Ockle Johnson. Running in his eighth Boston Marathon, Johnson, 71, was fifth in the men's 70-74 age division, crossing the line in 3:32.21.

4 weeks ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

Fitch Hennessey peered in from the on-deck circle and gave a clear, assertive mandate to the Blackbird dugout. "C'mon, let's put up two right here, right now," the Keene High senior said — a call to arms as the Black and Orange trailed Londonderry by one run heading into the bottom of the sixth. Looking to put a crooked number on the board, Hennessey got the rally started with a one-out single, his third hit of the game. Then, Colin Tinnin answered the call from his senior captain.

1 month ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

There was some good, there was some not so good. But with the sun shining and the mercury eclipsing 60 degrees, it was easy for the Keene High softball team to be optimistic despite an 8-3 loss to Winnacunnet on a picture-perfect opening day at Foster Field. Head coach Peter Vearling's eighth opening day lineup card at KHS featured six new names that were not in the starting 10 last year.

1 month ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

SWANZEY CENTER — The Monadnock High School powerlifting club began last year as a rag-tag gang, looking to establish itself with a simple message of self improvement and positivity. In its second year, it’s clear the message rang out. Now the modest weight room tucked in back of the school is bursting at the seams with powerlifters most weekday afternoons.