Walt Cottrell News Today

The Kilham Bear Center in Lyme, New Hampshire, is releasing 137 black bears back into the wild. The animals were brought to the center after they were orphaned or abandoned by their mothers.

This year, Ethan Kilham raised bears from New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

LYME — Across the Upper Valley, adolescents brimming with the vigor of youth are getting ready to graduate from high school and set off from home to take their first steps into the great, wide world.On Thursday, eight young denizens of Lyme also were...

LYME — Across the Upper Valley, adolescents brimming with the vigor of youth are getting ready to graduate from high school and set off from home to take their first steps into the great, wide world.On Thursday, eight young denizens of Lyme also were...

The bears are brought to the center by state wildlife agencies in the Northeast, after they’ve been reported to be straying along roads, into people’s yards or dumpster diving.

LYME — Across the Upper Valley, adolescents brimming with the vigor of youth are getting ready to graduate from high school and set off from home to take their first steps into the great, wide world.On Thursday, eight young denizens of Lyme also were...