BERLIN — As a radio recording of an ice hockey game played in the background and visitors streamed in and out of the Moffett House, 17-year-old Kolin Melanson studied an old, framed, broadsheet newspaper page hanging on a wall.
“BHS Wins Championship By Whipping Doms In Overtime” headlined a March 22, 1967, sports story in The Berlin Reporter.
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