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“Bitter cold doesn’t necessarily equal a pipe freeze-up,” said Bill Limoges. “It has to get in somehow, and that wind was absolutely shoving it in.”

The owners of the 325-acre Dodge Farm take particular issue with mountain bikes using the Orchard and Baptist Hill trails that run through their property.

Upper Valley residents who can now thrill to the majestic sweep of bald eagles over the Connecticut River should not only marvel at nature’s capacity for regeneration but also celebrate the power of human intervention to help reverse man-made...

Listservs have been abuzz, an ad-hoc group has been formed, and a letter circulating between the two communities to call for halting the closure has garnered more than 500 signatures. But the state of New Hampshire already has the $11 million project under contract.

New support groups are meant to allow farmers to break through the isolation of their workplaces and talk to farmers elsewhere in their communities who are struggling with the same issues, and maybe share a new strategy or two.

Vermont Fish & Wildlife prohibits target practice at any location on their properties apart from a designated shooting range.

The district, a product of Act 46 supervisory union mergers, is considering a name that’s less of a mouthful. Its student population hails from Woodstock, Barnard, Bridgewater, Pomfret, Reading, Killington and Plymouth.

In the community hall of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Claremont, a prize wheel that has been dormant for several years finally began to spin again on Thursday evening. And with it, a decades-old church fundraiser — St. Joseph’s annual turkey raffle —...

The group hopes to foster students’ “practical, regenerative land-based skills,” an agricultural and ecological knowledge base, and community organizing experience.

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