Van Buren replaces coach who stepped down on day of season opener

Van Buren replaces coach who stepped down on day of season opener

Van Buren has hired a new boys basketball coach two weeks after its previous coach stepped down on the day of the team’s regular season opener. MSAD 24 hired Jay Edgecomb, the district’s physical education teacher and a longtime coach, to fill the vacancy during an emergency school board meeting Thursday night. He will be the team’s fourth coach since the start of last season and third within three weeks. “[Edgecomb] has a track record of succes…