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Photographed at the Aloha Hive camp in West Fairlee, Vt., on July 19, 2017, Posie Taylor, of White River Junction, Vt., was recognized recently by the American Camp Association. She received the ACA’s Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor given that recognizes a lifetime of service for her work at the Aloha Foundation camps. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Upper Valley Woman Honored for Her Career in Camping

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJuly 31, 2017

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Art Notes: Hunting and Fishing Show Has Hits and Misses

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJuly 27, 2017

Suzanne Church, of Lebanon, N.H., weeds in the Canillas Community Garden's new pollinator bed in Lebanon as her husband Ethan Cole, center, taste tests edible weeds lamb's quarters and purslane from Pat McGovern, of Lebanon, on Sunday, July 23, 2017. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Good Eats, for Insects: Lebanon Gardeners Build a Pollinator Bed

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJuly 26, 2017

Raye Brevdawells makes a vinyl floor at Opera North's scene shop in Windsor, Vt., on July 11, 2017. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Opera North Expands Its Reach

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJuly 13, 2017

Nancy LaRowe, of Norwich, browses the art on display at Long River Gallery and Gifts in White River Junction, Vt., Monday, July 10, 2017. The gallery closed its original Lyme location in April after 25 years and is now based in the White River Junction shop that it opened as a pop-up gallery last November. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Long River Gallery Makes Itself at Home

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJuly 13, 2017

The view behind Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, N.H., now a part of the Saint Gaudens National Historic Site, is photographed on Wednesday, June 5, 2013. (Valley News - Libby March) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Free Concert Showcases Blow-Me-Down Farm Plans

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJuly 13, 2017

Rosamond Purcell's "Norfolk Island Kereru Leiden" is part of her Big Town Gallery show "An Art That Nature Makes" in Rochester, Vt., until July 23, 2017.

Art Notes: Artist’s Images Animate Eccentric Objects from the 18th and 19th Centuries

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJuly 6, 2017

North Hartland artist Stacy Hopkins has partnered with VINS to make jewelry from specimens from the Quechee-based nature center. Specimens, left to right: northern flicker skull, bittern foot, raven skull and broad-winged hawk foot.

Art Notes: Jewelry Artist Teams Up With VINS to Render Bones in Metal

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff Writers, and Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WritersJune 29, 2017

EPA field investigators Michelle Coombs, left, and William Sommer, right, take water samples and test for pH, conductivity and oxidation reduction potential from a stream flowing from the Ely Copper Mine in Vershire, Vt., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Lost in Vershire, ‘Ely War’ Site Slowly Sinks Into the Forest

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJune 26, 2017

Stephen Gorman on the sea ice, 450 miles above the Arctic Circle, Baffin Bay, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic

Art Notes: Norwich Resident Photographs the Cold, Still Wild Arctic Landscape

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff Writers, and Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WritersJune 22, 2017