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From left, Jane Anderson, Madelin Prak, Amber Houle and Meghan Blood, leaders of Kearsarge Regional High School's Sustainability Club, led the effort to ban single-use plastic bags in the Town of New London. (Courtesy Kearsarge Regional High School)

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Officials poke legal holes in New London’s plastic bag ban

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 17, 2022

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2015, file photo, cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa. The confirmation of bird flu at another Iowa egg-laying farm will force the killing of more than 5 million chickens, officials said Friday, March 18, 2022. Spread of the disease is largely blamed on the droppings or nasal discharge of infected wild birds, such as ducks and geese, which can contaminate dust and soil. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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Experts: All size flocks ‘at risk’ for deadly avian flu

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 11, 2022

Pre-K student Abby Ackerman, 4, washes her hands before the start of snack time in her classroom at Cornish Elementary School on Monday, April 4, 2022, in Cornish, N.H. Last summer, the school was notified that it had PFOA contamination in its well. Since then, children have been drinking bottled water. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Cornish Elementary School is one of many properties dealing with ‘forever chemicals’ now

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 9, 2022April 9, 2022

After loading up his canoe with manually extracted Eurasian milfoil, Unity College sophomore Bradley Bulson transports the invasive species to 5-gallon buckets, which are then dumped into a sprawling pile adjacent from the boat launch of Dewey’s Pond in Quechee, Vt., on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. Bulson, with the help of fellow classmates Emma O’Brien and Taylor Onessimo, on average extracts about 200 5-gallon buckets worth of the invasive plant. (Valley News - Mac Snyder) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Group hopes to get a grip on milfoil infestation with hand-pulling in Lyme pond

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 6, 2022

A undated portrait of Samson Occom, the Mohegan minister who helped Eleazar Wheelock secure funds for what would become Dartmouth College. Occom's papers are being repatriated from Dartmouth to the Connecticut tribe in an April 27, 2022, ceremony. (Courtesy Dartmouth Library)

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‘Coming back to our homelands’: Samson Occom’s papers to be repatriated with Mohegan Tribe

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 5, 2022

Jim Hughes, of West Fairlee, Vt., readies his phone for his Zoom reading time with Westshire Elementary School fifth-graders on Tuesday, March, 9, 2021, at his home. Hughes was on Chapter 22 of "The Secret Garden," doing different voices for the characters in the book. ( 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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Residents want to rock boat on wakes

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 5, 2022

A black bear was trapped in the Champneys' mudroom in Grafton, N.H., on March 26, 2021, after it followed the scent of a smoker stored in the space. (Melissa Champney photograph)

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Bear’s Grafton home invasion, and how bears adapt to human changes in environment

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 4, 2022

Holly Tabor-Hall, left, and Kris Tabor-Hall get ready to leave for work at their home in Andover, N.H., on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. The couple carpool for their 45 minute commute to their jobs in Norwich, Vt., and Lebanon, N.H., respectively. (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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Far-flung commuters go the extra, costly mile for Upper Valley Jobs

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 3, 2022

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USGS: Minor earthquake to blame for Friday afternoon boom

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 2, 2022

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Jets could be to blame for reported midday boom

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterApril 1, 2022