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Alan Graham, a retired State of Vermont entomologist, searches for ticks on a turkey at a weigh station at the Windsor Fire Department on Saturday, April 24, 2022. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets are working with Vermont hunters to look for the Lone Star tick. Graham, of Pomfret, Vt., and his wife Kris were volunteering at the station on youth turkey season. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Vermont on the lookout for new tick that can cause a meat allergy

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterMay 13, 2022

Pine Park Trustee Bruce Atwood cuts a section of a fallen hemlock to remove it from a trail in Pine Park on Thursday, May 5, 2022 as trustee Barry Harwock, left, volunteer Steve Fowler, middle, and trustee Bill Young, right, look on. (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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Hanover’s Pine Park slated for improvements to accessibility, sustainability

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterMay 10, 2022

The life cycle of an emerald ash borer lasts betwen one to two years beginning with eggs being laid on ash tree bark from June to August. The larvae, left, feed on the cambium layer of the tree and spend the winter in the pre-pupal stage, middle, before pupating in spring and emerging as mature insects, right, in May. Over about five years, an infected tree will weaken and die from larvae having eaten away the layer of tissue that transports nutrients in the tree. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Town-City-Government

The emerald ash borer isn’t just costing towns trees; it’s costing them money

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterMay 6, 2022

Doug Tifft, of Fairlee, Vt., helps with other participants to make a pollinator garden on the Thetford Center green on Saturday, April 30, 2022. The group was learning about planting native seeds to attract pollinators around the Thetford Community Garden. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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‘No Mow May’: Upper Valley groups want your lawn to go wild

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterMay 5, 2022

Three bucks, allegedly in the bed of the pickup of Jeff Degrasse, 63, of Sunapee, that Degrasse's son, also named Jeff Degrasse, 26, of Hartford, said were taken on a hunting outing in Norwich with Casey Thayer, 27, of Hartford, according to a Vermont Fish and Wildlife affidavit. The photograph was uncovered during a cross-border poaching investigation involving six suspects, as well as Fish and Wildlife and New Hampshire Fish and Game. (Courtesy Vermont Fish and Wildlife)

Police-Fire-Courts

Cross-border deer poaching case ensnares 6 suspects in Vt., NH

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 30, 2022

Town-City-Government

Forest Service pressing ahead with logging around lake

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 25, 2022

A sign at the intersection of Goose Pond Road and Baker Hill Road warns motorists of muddy road conditions ahead in Lyme, N.H., on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Valley News / Report For America - Alex Driehaus) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Town-City-Government

A muddy spring has already mucked up town road budgets

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 22, 2022

Photographer Stephen Gorman's "Monument to Infinite Growth" is part of "Down to the Bone," a show at the Peabody Essex Museum with cartoonist Ed Koren through Feb. 5, 2023. (Courtesy Stephen Gorman)

Vermont photographer, cartoonist send an environmental message at Mass. exhibit

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 20, 2022

Pilot Lochie Ferrier prepares to fly the Beta ALIA-250c electric plane out of the Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, N.H., on Friday, April 15, 2022. The flight, from Lebanon to Manchester, N.H., is the second leg of the plane's first flight outside of Beta's home airport in Burlington, Vt., and testing facility in Plattsburgh, N.Y. It's “the true proof of concept cross country mission,” for an all-electric aircraft, said Chris Caputo, a Beta flight instructor. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Vermont company’s electric-powered plane touches down in Lebanon

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 19, 2022

A stack of tires sits on the curb during a town-wide giveaway in Windsor, Vt., on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Community members left furniture, electronics and other miscellaneous items in their yards and driveways for people to take for free rather than throwing the unwanted items away. (Valley News / Report For America - Alex Driehaus) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Tire roundup leaves its mark

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 18, 2022