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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — It was a brutally cold morning on Saturday, but that didn’t keep die-hard birders from participating in the Audubon Society’s 121st annual Christmas Bird Count. In Brattleboro, 20 field observers, with another 16 birders at their feeders, counted a record 5,877 birds Saturday, representing 56 different species, said Cory Ross, the local coordinator for the citizen-science project. Ross said the temperature tipped to three below when he started Saturday morning on the West River near The Marina Restaurant. Ross ...

BELLOWS FALLS — There’s house proud, and then there’s “ house proud.” Rockingham has been giving awards every year to the owners of restored homes and other buildings for close to 30 years, and in 2020 everything from a Victorian painted lady, to a 1950s split level modern home, to one of the oldest houses in the town won recognition. The Rockingham Preservation Commission recently handed out five awards, and gave honorable mentions to four other properties. Walter Wallace, the Rockingham Preservation Commission’s coordinator, said the awards have been given out ...

good morning. we begin with lingering misery caused by hurricane irene. you're looking at live pictures now from patterson, new jersey, where crews are actually going door-to-door rescuing people from their homes. that water, by the way, coming from the passaic river is supposed to crest today at its highest level since 1903. a pretty eye-catching image of how massive the storm was. this is coming to us from nasa. it's an animated satellite of irene as it's churning up the eastern seaboard like a buzz saw. at last check, 5 million people are still without power. throughout the mornin...