CHICAGO, ILL/TEWKSBURY – Throughout her three years at Tewksbury Memorial High School, Makayla Paige has joined or surpassed some elite athletes, who did truly remarkable things on the cross-country and tracks during their high school careers.

TEWKSBURY – In 2015, Tewksbury and Methuen combined for a co-op/co-ed swim team. There's been a handful of Tewksbury residents who have been a part of the program, having fun and success. When it comes to the All-Decade Team, the Town Crier decided to pick the three Tewksbury residents who h…

In last week's edition, we published the All-Decade TMHS Golf team and thanks to some new information provided by his coaches at the time, Ron Drouin and Jim Sullivan, that we were unaware of at the time, we made a mistake as Ryan Doherty was listed to the 'Reserve Team' and should have been…

TEWKSBURY – It was a pretty remarkable decade for the Tewksbury Memorial High School Girls' Cross-Country program, certainly matching the decade from 1990-'99 in terms of team success.

On Monday night, Bowdoin College decided to cancel its fall athletic season due "to limits on campus attendance, sports in fall semester have been canceled with opportunity for the winter, spring, and possibly fall varsity athletes to participate and compete in some form after January 1."

TEWKSBURY – Minus three seasons, in terms of wins and losses, this was a tremendous decade for the Tewksbury Memorial High School volleyball team. The Redmen captured the MVC Division 2 Championship title in 2015, made seven state tournament appearances and came away with a 5-7 record in tho…

Back in 1980, the TMHS Varsity Baseball team had a very successful season, finishing 12-8, as the team qualified for the state tournament for the first time since 1973.

TEWKSBURY – Tewksbury High has been blessed with many outstanding sports programs throughout their history. As sports editor Jamie Pote recently pointed out recently during our look back at sports over the past decade, they have been led by a dominant Girls Outdoor Track program, not to ment…

TEWKSBURY — In terms of wins and losses, it was a tale of halves for the Tewksbury Memorial High School Field Hockey team. In the first four years, the team had records of 13-3-3, 12-5-2, 11-4-4 and 14-5-2, and then the next six years the team never got over the .500 mark with records of 10-…

TEWKSBURY – Overall, this was an absolutely fantastic decade for the Tewksbury Memorial High School Boys Cross-Country team. The Redmen came away with the Division 3 Eastern Mass Championship title in 2012, and that kick started six straight years of qualifying for the All-State Meet.

TEWKSBURY – Not just because it was football, not because there's more players involved and not because of the team's success, but this week marks the 15th team that the Town Crier has featured with our picks for the respective "All-Decade Team" and by far this was the hardest team to select.

TEWKSBURY – Last week we ran the TMHS Girls Outdoor Track-and-Field All-Decade team and I stated that the program was by far ahead of all of the others in terms of success in the decade. And while the girls track team holds that title, on the boys side, certainly football and ice hockey are …

TEWKSBURY – When legendary — retired after the 2010 season — guiding the Redmen to a strange 7-4-8 record with a league title and a first round state tournament loss to Malden Catholic — and took his 305 career victories with him, it took a year before the next Levine type coach to arrive on…

TEWKSBURY — The Town Crier Sports Department is starting a new series of re-printing stories or updating old archive stories that appeared in old issues. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the TMHS Golf team's 1990 season, which was part of an incredible three-year run.

BOSTON/WILMINGTON — On June 1, Governor Charlie Baker announced as part of Phase-II of the state's re-opening plan, that youth and adults sports activities can resume, provided all workplaces and programs adhere to the guidelines in which he outlined to the public.

TEWKSBURY – If ever there was an example of going out on top, it would have to be former Tewksbury High Wrestling coach Steve O’Keefe.

TEWKSBURY – The head coaching position with the Tewksbury High Wrestling team has been the model of consistency for almost 50 years.

Eleanore Riddle is 82-years-old now and watching over her many children and grandchildren. Eleanore and her husband Jim together raised a busy, very athletic household that was always bustling with five sons and a daughter in a house filled with trophies and enough sports gear to stock any s…

TEWKSBURY – There's a handful of close seconds, but really there's no debate here either. The greatest varsity athletic program at Tewksbury Memorial High School over this past decade is hands down, the Girls Outdoor Track-and-Field Team.

TEWKSBURY – In 2015, Kim and Brady O'Hanlon's lives were torn completely apart when they were told that their five month old son, Maxwell was diagnosed with Krabbe Leukodystrophy, which is a rare and often fatal lysosomal storage disease that results in progressive damage to the nervous system.

TEWKSBURY — Last Thursday, it was announced that for the first time since the event started back in 1897, there won't be a Boston Marathon event this year.

TEWKSBURY — It was certainly a streaky decade for the Tewksbury Memorial High School boys' lacrosse team. From 2010-2019, the program had five coaches and during that time it was two tough years, four successful years and back to four tough seasons, in terms of wins and losses.

The Town Crier will be occasionally featuring past stories of memorable people, places and events. Bill Bulloch died on August 11, 2008, four days after his 58th birthday. This tribute was published in the Tewksbury edition of the Town Crier the week that Bulloch died. “The Bull” valiantly b…

TEWKSBURY – Prior to this decade, the Tewksbury Memorial High School girls' tennis team had only made the state tournament a few times, and for the longest time were not competitive in terms of wins and losses.

Two weeks ago, the Town Crier wrote a story about the possibility of the MIAA passing a new rule in high school volleyball in which boys would be allowed to play on the front line, thus being able to spike the ball, and also block the ball against female players.

Over the past few weeks, members of the MIAA and its sports committees have been meeting to discuss possible further changes for the 2021-'22 season, which coincides with the new state wide state tournament.

TEWKSBURY – Oh so close!

Over the last week or so, the MIAA held meetings and voted on several changes for the upcoming seasons with a various different sports. It appears as if football will remain to have eight divisions, while both basketball and volleyball will spread out to five divisions, all starting in the 2…

TEWKSBURY – Have you ever been watching a Sunday Night Football game, listening to Al Michaels, or listening to a Patriots game with Bob Socci doing the announcing and wondered how these professionals got their start? What led them to the pinnacle of their professions? How much work was invo…

TEWKSBURY – As our series continues with the All-Decade teams with the TMHS Athletic teams, this week we will feature the wrestling and gymnastics programs.

With the college spring sports season being canceled throughout the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Town Crier has been unable to provide our readers with our college roundups, highlighting the exploits of our local college athletes performing at schools all over the country.

TEWKSBURY – The Tewksbury/Methuen co-op girls' hockey team has only been around for seven years of this decade and put together more milestones than other programs have in their 20-plus history.

TEWKSBURY – Last Thursday morning, at around 9:30 a.m. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s office announced in a statement that golf courses in Massachusetts were allowed to open, effective immediately. It was the news that golfers, not to mention golf course employees all over the state,…

Wilmington High School’s track team made Merrimack Valley Conference history in the spring of 1974. Coach Dick Collins’ Andover High School Golden Warriors had won 93 meets in a row, not having lost in eleven years. No one expected Coach Frank Kelley’s Little Engine That Could to even come c…

Below is a breakdown of the 1974 Wilmington High School Class C Championship boys' track team's magical season. All of the scores, results and information was taken from the Town Crier archive pages.

TEWKSBURY – I had some extra room in this week's sports pages and decided to double up, so we have the boys and girls hockey All-Decade teams and below are the boys and girls track-and-field teams.

TEWKSBURY — Back in December, the Town Crier named a Coach of the Decade as well as a Male and Female Athlete of the Decade, the choices made by a panel of 10-people. Now four months later, during the pandemic, I have some extra time to expand on the 2010-'19 decade and name an All-Decade te…

LOWELL – During a normal season, this time of year would find Shawn Scott putting in countless hours in his position as the Golf Pro at Long Meadow Golf Club in Lowell.

LAS VEGAS/TEWKSBURY – Several weeks ago, the Town Crier started a new series called 'Where Are They Now' and the first feature was on Bev Luken.

WILMINGTON – Throughout every step of his lacrosse career Shawsheen Tech senior midfielder and captain Conor Rooney has continued to take his game to a higher level. Whether that was starting out by playing youth lacrosse at the age of seven years old, or moving on to play with more talented…

TEWKSBURY – Perhaps any other calendar year, Zach LaLonde probably would have been the Town Crier's Male Athlete of the Year, but an All-Scholastic football player got in his way.

This story was written by the Worcester State College Sports Information Director Curtis Fraser.

TEWKSBURY — We’ve all heard a lot about essential workers lately, and with good reason. The people who work the fields, manage the food distribution centers, drive the trucks and stock the grocery store shelves while also keeping those stores clean enough so that we all can feel safe in the …

BILLERICA – Like every school in the state on Tuesday afternoon, Shawsheen Tech students, faculty and staff were hit with the much expected, but still shocking news, that Governor Charlie Baker had made the decision to close all Massachusetts schools for the remainder of the academic year du…

TEWKSBURY — On Tuesday afternoon, Governor Charlie Baker announced that all Massachusetts Schools will be closed for the remainder of the school year, due to the COVID-19 virus, thus ending any kind of hope of a spring high school sports season.

This past week, it was announced that the 2020 Shriners All-Star Football Classic has been canceled for the first time since the contest started up in 1979.

TEWKSBURY – Luc Surette has always been a self starter. He has always self motivated and ready to give everything he tries his best shot, whether it be school, athletics or work. Just ask his coaches, his teammates, or most recently the young entrepreneur’s business partner and they will tel…

SILVER SPRING, MD/TEWKSBURY — Starting this week, both current Sports Editor Jamie Pote and Former Sports Editor/current Sports Reporter Rick Cooke will team up to start a new series called 'Where Are They Now'. We will feature former teams, coaches and athletes, focusing on their lives spen…

TEWKSBURY – For the second time in less than a year, a Tewksbury resident will be playing professional hockey.