Concord
The state’s Wild Turkey Winter Flock Survey starts Sunday and runs through March 31. Volunteers are asked to report sightings of wild turkeys via an online form, making note of the number of turkeys in the flock, where they were seen, the type of habitat and what they were feeding on.
Last winter, volunteers submitted more than 2,000 reports about more than 38,000 turkeys, nearly triple the previous year’s total.
Wild turkeys had disappeared from the state for more than a century due to overhunting and land clearing in the 1800s.
Their recovery began with the reintroduction of 25 turkeys in 1975, and the population is now about 40,000.
Montpelier
Fifty-six-year-old David Girard has won the 2016 Vermont lifetime hunting and fishing license lottery. He was drawn as the winner from among more than 10,000 lottery tickets bought in 2016. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department holds the drawing each year.
The department said sales of the $2 tickets brought in more than $20,000 for fish and wildlife conservation in the state.
Boston
The state has given the green light to Cambridge-based company nuTonomy Inc. to start testing a self-driving car in a small section of the city beginning Tuesday.
The testing at first will be confined to the 191-acre Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park in South Boston, which has a simple road layout and no traffic lights. Testing will also be limited to daylight hours and good weather.
The car will also have a passenger in it, ready to take over if necessary. If things go well, the testing will expand to more complicated road patterns in other areas, and at night or in rain and snow.
St. Johnsbury, Vt.
State Police said 31-year-old Amanda Dick, of St. Johnsbury, died when her snowmobile crashed into a tree on private property Saturday afternoon. A child who was riding with her was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
Authorities are still investigating what led up to the crash. They said Dick was not wearing a helmet.
— Wire reports