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By CLAIRE POTTER

Volunteers picked through feathers probing for small ticks with a white blaze on their backs at weighing stations during turkey hunting season. Vermont is on the lookout for the lone star tick, a species spreading north.“Climate change, that’s why we...

By CLAIRE POTTER

NORWICH — Five Windsor County men face a combined 78 criminal charges in Vermont after the alleged poaching of 14 deer. Several, along with a Sunapee man, face additional criminal charges in New Hampshire, where officials said they have evidence that...

By CLAIRE POTTER

PIERMONT — Officials overseeing the White Mountain National Forest this week postponed a final decision on a proposal to log approximately 880 acres of national forest land near Lake Tarleton and will reopen public comment.The decision comes after a...

By CLAIRE POTTER

HARTFORD — Wesley Black, the 36-year-old Hartford firefighter who was battling colon cancer after being exposed to open burn pits while serving with the Vermont National Guard in Afghanistan and Iraq, died on Sunday.“The Hartford Fire Department...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD, Mass. — A Massachusetts man will soon find his story in a wilderness and environmental medical journal after surviving a gruesome attack from a presumably rabid beaver while swimming in a remote pond two weeks ago.Mark “Pres” Pieraccini,...

By CLAIRE POTTER

The Ottauquechee River had always been part of the charm of the White Cottage Snack Bar. The seasonal Route 4 restaurant’s website entices customers with the promise of char-broiled burgers and whole fried clams enjoyed on the banks of a bucolic river...

By CLAIRE POTTER

In the wake of Irene, Vermont nonprofits, state agencies and residents have worked together to make their communities more resilient as climate change threatens to unleash more extreme weather.Planting a tree may seem like an insignificant act when...

By CLAIRE POTTER

SOUTH ROYALTON — The White River carves a sharp, L-shaped bend that hugs the low-lying fields where Geo Honigford grows a varied bounty of organic vegetables.These days, the river seems safely nestled in its channel. Honigford, though, remembers when...