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This writer returned Sunday from my annual trek to upstate New York. The centerpiece, for the past 10 years, has been the Ruffed Grouse Society New York Grouse and Woodcock Hunt. It has been my pleasure to be one of the huntsmen AKA guides for this...

Last Saturday, this writer and French Brittany Laney got off to an early start (by upland hunting standards) to try to get in some hunting before the temperatures rose and made conditions unfavorable. There was a little internal debate as to which...

LEVERETT — A three-day training was held to help people from around the Northeast and beyond learn how to bridge widening divides in this country between conservatives and liberals, along with racial, ethnic, class and other splits.The 30 participants...

LEVERETT — A three-day training was held to help people from around the Northeast and beyond learn how to bridge widening divides in this country between conservatives and liberals, along with racial, ethnic, class and other splits.The 30 participants...

WHILE hospitals are equipped to deal with emergency situations that involve multiple casualties, they were not prepared to deal with an invisible enemy known as the Covid-19 virus. Imagine the concerns and the fears going through the heads of hospital administrators. Will frontliners get infected? What rooms can accommodate Covid-19…

About fifty years ago, a mated queen ant dropped to the forest floor on the Temple and Lyndeborough town line. She’d flown from a colony miles away, on a search-and-destroy mission to claim a home for her future colony. She soon infiltrated a local...

PETERSHAM — Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust in collaboration with UMass Extension invite the public to a two-part pasture management workshop series at Doe Valley Farm in Petersham with soil science expert Dr. Masoud Hashemi. The first session...

WINCHENDON — On Saturday, Oct. 2, the public is invited to celebrate Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust’s 35th Annual Meeting at Captain’s Farm in Winchendon. The celebration will be hosted by Liz and Nate Schroeder on their conserved land at 106...

Where the state has acquired tax-exempt properties, such as forests, beaches and public institutions, municipalities are reimbursed for lost revenue through the State-Owned Land Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program.

Driving through the small town of Warwick, it’s not the quaint architecture that catches one’s eye — it’s the vast sea of trees. They rise from the road’s edge, sprouting behind stone walls and encircling everything, visible even among the cluster of...