Commentary: Healthy soils essential for healthy climate, healthy agricultural economy
L.D. 437 will be vital to ensuring that Maine farmers and ecosystems thrive despite a changing climate.
By Ellen Griswold, Heather Spalding and Andrew BluntSpecial to the Press Herald
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Maine’s Legislature will consider numerous bills seeking to implement Gov. Mills’ four-year plan for climate action. One of these bills centers on the role that healthy soil plays in helping farmers become more resilient to the impacts of climate change, while increasing agricultural production and farm profitability and reducing greenhouse gases. Soil is the backbone of our state’s agricultural sector, and keeping it healthy is key to ensuring that our farmers and ecosystems thrive despite a changing climate.
Monday: Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company will host bingo at 7 p.m. at the firehall
March 14: A vendor bingo will be hosted at 1 p.m. in the Elks ballroom, 128 Market St. Doors open at noon. Ten games will award vendor prizes and the 11
th game will be a $250 must-go jackpot. The kitchen will be open. Must be at least 18 years old to attend. Cost: $20.
Tickets: Ruth, 724-422-4913 or the lodge, 724-842-8071
April 1: Tickets are on sale for a No Foolin’ Lottery Scratch-off Ticket Raffle to benefit Leechburg Area Community Association and Leechburg Public Library. Winner receives one roll of $20 and one roll of $10 scratch-off tickets. Cost: $5, includes two numbers. Winning number will be the 7 p.m. April 1 Pick 3 number.
Berkshire County contains hundreds of ponds, larger and smaller.
Most of them are man-made or -enlarged. What they have in common is that they perform important functions for people and wildlife, and that they are silting in.
Can people do anything about that?
Few totally natural ponds exist in the county. Stockbridge Bowl, Pontoosuc and Onota are known as raised natural ponds, meaning there was a pond there, but impoundments made them larger. Cheshire Reservoir is the result of damming the Hoosic River where there was no pond before. Most of the impoundments were installed by industrialists in the 19th century in order to provide waterpower for mills, but many smaller ponds are the work of beavers â or farmers or private homeowners.
An artist s rendering of what the concrete tubes will look like. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. The Conservation Commission on Tuesday approved an art installation of 11 concrete cylinders within the 200-foot buffer zone of the river at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The 10-foot diameter precast tubs will be arranged in an arc between Buildings 19 and 25, just east of Joe s Field, and are designed to resonant with sound or music. They re the creation of artist Taryn Simon, whose A Cold Hole and Assembled Audience made a splash at the museum in 2018. The commission s concern dealt not with the art but the construction on land near the Hoosic River. Brad Dilger, project manager at Mass MoCA, said the installation would be located on a grassy site where a previous Sprague Electric building had been removed.
Duncannon continues to lose water despite pipe fixes, other repairs
Updated Feb 27, 2021;
Posted Feb 27, 2021
FLOW CONTROL Workers from Farhat Excavating lower a new water pipe into a trench at the intersection of Cumberland and High streets in Duncannon on Aug. 19, 2020. On the ground is a new valve (red) to help the borough limit service disruptions in the future when working on its water system. (Jim T. Ryan photo)
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It’s been four years since Duncannon began to notice that it was losing water from its system at above normal rates, but for all its efforts, the losses are higher than they were – even after multiple repair projects.