By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – When the scholastic basketball season finally gets underway in less than a week, a couple strange devices will be looming on the walls in every…
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By Michael Letendre The shot clock conversation turns into reality this week on the scholastic level as the devices will be put into use at both the Charles C. Marsh…
By Michael Letendre The scholastic football championships have been completed and on Saturday, it was a big day for the 12 remaining squads in the state – vying for six…
By Michael Letendre The 2023 CIAC football playoffs has seen a little bit of everything this year. And out of the six classes, only one of those divisions ended up…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – Despite its ending against Bristol Central on Thanksgiving, the Bristol Eastern football team put together its best campaign in nearly a decade. The Lancers finished…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – One of the coolest elements of the Thanksgiving Day Football clash are all the seniors that are recognized at the game. From the players, cheerleaders…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – Name a better linebacker around than Bristol Eastern senior Adam Zavecz? I’m waiting… The 6-foot, 200 pound halfback/linebacker/running back/fullback was Mr. Everything for the Lancers…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The Bristol Central football program ended the year at .500 – a tremendous finish by the program over a very tough start. Overall, Central’s 5-5…
By Michael Letendre NEWINGTON – When Bristol’s Adam Peters and Bunty Ray were inducted into the Greater Hartford Twilight Baseball League Hall of Fame on November 18 (Class of 2023),…
By Michael Letendre NEWINGTON – When Bristol’s Adam Peters was inducted into the Greater Hartford Twilight Baseball League Hall of Fame on November 18 from the Indians Hill Country Club…
By Michael Letendre NEWINGTON – The start of the 21st century in Greater Hartford Twilight Baseball League play was owned by the Bristol Merchants. After a trying first season, Bunty…
By Michael Letendre The Bristol Central football team made it eight straight Thanksgiving Day victories in a row over Bristol Eastern on Thursday, holding off the pesky Kingstreeters by a 14-7…
Early on Thanksgiving Day morning there are a scattering of cars at Rockwell. The field lights are on and so are the lights to the press box. All TBE readers,…
By Michael Letendre The Thanksgiving Day records from the historic Battle for the Bell, pitting the Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern football programs against one another, are a tremendous read…
By Michael Letendre Individual records for the annual Battle for the Bell fall almost every time the Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern football teams lock horns. And it’s not…
By Michael Letendre Being able to ring the old brass bell after the Thanksgiving Day football battle between Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern is always a treat. And it’s…
By Michael Letendre Timmy Washington was one of the greatest football players to ever step foot on the field at Bristol Central. And once he left the program for…
By Michael Letendre The final twelve Thanksgiving Day football games between Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern have been decided by several split decisions. Over that stretch, the Lancers won…
By Erica Pearson Of the two Bristol cheer squads competing at the regionals at the University of New Hampshire, Sunday, the younger D-8 team secured a first-place finish, starting the…
By Michael Letendre After leaving the decade of the 1970s, the Bristol Eastern football team was still facing a ton of misery during its annual Thanksgiving Day battles against…