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Hartford Selectboard approves climate action plan that would cut emissions townwide by 2030

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2021

A cheese trier, a tool used to sample cores of cheese, rests on a wheel of alpine-style Toma in the cheese cave at Robie Farm in Piermont, N.H., on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. The cheese is made with raw milk from the farm’s Normandy cross cows. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Piermont family farm ready to celebrate 150 years of changing with the times

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2021

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Public hearings planned for Vermont Climate Council’s proposal

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2021

Sumac surrounds a sign pointing the way to the portage trail around the Wilder Dam on the Connecticut River in Lebanon, N.H., on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The dam and two others on the Connecticut also owned by Great River Hydro are up for relicensing, a process that occurs every 40 years. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Some see opportunity in Wilder Dam relicensing

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 6, 2021

Lauren Gitlin's French Alpine goat Placer nuzzles with her after she was milked at Villa Villekulla Farm in Tunbridge, Vt., on Sept. 1, 2021. Three goats in the herd became sick this summer after ingesting a wood preservative left behind in their pasture by a Washington Electric Coop contractor about 15 years ago. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Tunbridge goats sickened by years-old chemicals used on electric poles

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 2, 2021

Forest ecologist Dave Lutz is a research assistant professor at Dartmouth College. Lutz is working with a team in the 180 acre Clement Woodlot owned by Dartmouth in Corinth, Vt., to document conditions as emerald ash borers spread through the state. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Researchers rush to record data in Dartmouth forest before emerald ash borer changes everything

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterAugust 31, 2021

Peg Elmer Hough kisses her husband Randy Hough at the close of an interview being filmed by Sam Bruce for a Resilience Festival oral history project on residents’ experiences during Tropical Storm Irene Sunday, August 28, 2016. Elmer Hough has since moved to Cabot, Vt., but her home was undercut by flood waters from the White River during the storm and she had the building lifted onto a new, higher foundation and built a stone wall as a breakwater in the event of another flood of Irene’s power. The coulple were married two years ago in a garden on the property on the anniversary of the storm. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Tropical Storm Irene, 10 years later: Homeowners decide whether to stay and rebuild or move away

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterAugust 31, 2021

Lindsey Jones, of Orange County, Va., makes her way down Route 4 in Woodstock yesterday. Jones, who has been hiking the Appalachian Trail for two months, says she came off the trail in Killington when she got word of the storm. She estimated it would take two days to get back to the trailhead because of road closures across the Upper Valley. (Valley News - Polina Yamshchikov) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Tropical Storm Irene, 10 years later: Businesses look back on disaster, recovery

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterAugust 28, 2021

The heavily damaged Quechee covered bridge, constructed in 1970, as seen from the air yesterday. The swollen Ottauquechee River crashed through the bridge on Sunday. The golf course and Simon Pearce store in Quechee were also badly damaged during Tropical Storm Irene.

Valley News - Jennifer Hauck
A view of the heavily damaged Quechee covered bridge, taken days after Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont. Valley News — Jennifer Hauck

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Tropical Storm Irene, 10 years later: Preventing the next Irene, or at least the catastrophic flooding

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterAugust 28, 2021

Town-City-Government

Hartford approves climate action plan, puts implementation on hold

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterAugust 27, 2021