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Lebanon Acts on Odor

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

West Lebanon — Get a whiff of this: The stench that prevails in parts of West Lebanon could disappear by the end of the year if all goes according to plan at the city landfill. The city’s solid waste department is gearing up to deploy an arsenal of odor-control methods that it hopes will snuff out the “rotten egg” smell familiar to commuters and shoppers who travel through West Lebanon …

Rising to the Challenge

Sunday, June 16, 2013

After falling victim to an avalanche while ice climbing in 2011, West Lebanon native Ed Warren didn’t have as much of a speedy of a recovery as he’d hoped for. Eighteen months later, he made up for the lost time in a big way. Using modern-design ski boots to help stabilize a left ankle that was severely broken last fall, Warren recently set …

Marion Simonds, 82, of Pomfret, a driver with her son’s company, P&P’s Twin State Taxi, waits while one of her passengers, Rich Royce, of White River Junction, helps carry groceries for another passenger, Susan Smith, of Hartford Village, on Tuesday. “I love it,” Simonds said. “I love the people, you know what I mean? I want them to feel comfortable and like I said before I’d go mad if I had to stay home day after day. I’ve got to be out here doing something and I love doing this. Making people happy, getting them where they need to go and do.” she said. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

‘Ma’ Gives Riders a Lift: At 82, Pomfret Cabbie Drives to Stay Young

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Pomfret — By lunchtime, taxi driver Marion Simonds had already put in a full day’s work. “I’ve been busier than hell this morning,” the 82-year-old Chelsea native said. On a recent Friday, she’d started work at 4 a.m., driving “a steady” who travels from White River Junction to his job at a Lebanon …

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