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Jordan Johnson, left, and Kiana Neily, right, of Bradford, walk back to their car after dropping a fishing line into the Connecticut River in Norwich, Vt., on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2022. (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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Back on track

by Staff Report November 11, 2022

Belle and Holly swim out to join Lorna McMaster, of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, on her stand up paddle board as she gets ready to continue on a multi-day camping trip down the Connecticut River with her daughter, Rachael Ekkens, right, of Bellows Falls, Vt., and husband Brian McMaster, not pictured, after stopping to pick up supplies near Lyman Bridge in Lebanon, N.H., on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. This is the family’s first time on an excursion like this, and they’re keeping a leisurely pace as they paddle from Orford, N.H., to Bellows Falls. “It’s the parent-child trip of a lifetime,” Lorna McMaster said. (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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Down the river

by Staff Report September 10, 2022

The Ledyard Bridge, which spans the Connecticut River connecting Norwich, Vt., and Hanover, N.H., on Monday, August 8, 2022. A 24-year-old Dartmouth College graduate died early Sunday morning after first responders recovered him from the rocky embankment near the Ledyard Bridge where he was found severely injured. (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.

Police-Fire-Courts

Dartmouth grad died Sunday after being found injured under Ledyard Bridge

by John Lippman Valley News Staff WriterAugust 9, 2022

Niko Sanville, 15, left, and Matthew Porreca, 15, right, take photos and videos on their phones as Matthew Saporito, 14, makes his first attempt at using a rope swing at Patchen's Point in Norwich, Vt., on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. The boys, all of Norwich, are on summer vacation after finishing their first year at Hanover High School. (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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Decisive moment

by Staff Report July 11, 2022

Tailings at the Pike Hill Copper Mine Superfund Site in an undated photograph. (EPA photograph)

Town-City-Government

EPA, Corinth prepare for the Upper Valley’s next mine cleanup

by Frances Mize Valley News Staff WriterJuly 9, 2022

Kaiya Bowers, left, and Ken Scherer, both of Buffalo, N.Y., load wood into a ring of fire biochar kiln in Woodstock, Vt., on Thursday, June 23, 2022. The end result of the burn is biochar, which Scherer describes as a “carbon hotel.” (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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It’s a good burn: Biochar helps farmers get more life out of dead plants

by Frances Mize Valley News Staff WriterJuly 1, 2022

The owner of Ford of Claremont is seeking approval from the N.H. Department of Environmental Services to remove nearly 26,000 square feet of the wet meadow on the south side of the driveway that links the existing Ford dealership, built in 2017, to Charlestown Road. The site, in Claremont, N.H., had just been mowed on Thursday, June 30, 2022. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Claremont auto dealership’s plan to build on ‘wet meadow’ irks Conservation Commission

by Patrick O'Grady Valley News CorrespondentJuly 1, 2022

Logan Putnam, 4, left, tries to take a drink from the hose as his cousins Hunter Putnam, 9, back right, and Lucas, 4, water their strawberries in a raised bed outside their house in the Riverside Mobile Home Park in Woodstock, Vt., on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (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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A growing sense of place

by Frances Mize Valley News Staff WriterJune 27, 2022

A family paddles a rented canoe around Treasure Island in West Fairlee, Vt., on July 15, 2013. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Town-City-Government

Hearing looks to map out future for Treasure Island

by Frances Mize Valley News Staff WriterJune 22, 2022

A woman who declined to be identified, back right, records the scene as Hartford Firefighters Peter McMillan, left, and Troy Collins, right, return two men to shore after they became stranded by rising water on an island at Sumners Falls in Hartland, Vt., on Friday afternoon, June 17, 2022 when Great River Hydro had a scheduled release of water from their dam in Wilder. Two other men fishing on the shore, back left and middle, who also declined to be named, phoned for help when they observed the men trying to cross back through fast deep water. (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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Hartland river rescue

by Staff Report June 20, 2022