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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — Windham & Windsor Housing Trust will host three days of special community events during a weeklong celebration of community and volunteerism nationally recognized as NeighborWorks Week. The schedule of events includes a day of site prep with Upper Valley Habitat on a F…

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore and the Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative (VOREC) have announced 51 new recipients of the VOREC Community Grant Program. These projects mark an investment of over $6 million into Vermont’s outdoor recreation …

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CROYDON, N.H. — The Town of Croydon announced that the transfer station will be temporarily closed on Wednesdays, but that residents should expect to see it open back up for the regular hours come August.

CLAREMONT, N.H. — Frank Santos Jr., the R-Rated Hypnotist will take the stage on June 8 starting at 7:30 p.m. This one-night-only event at the historic Claremont Opera House promises a unique blend of comedy, hypnosis, and audience participation that delivers a night out to remember.

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SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — The Springfield Art & Historical Society will host the Vermont Humanities Council program, “The Hills of Home: Mountains and Identity in Vermont History,” on Saturday, March 23, at 2 p.m. at the SAHS facility at 65 Route 106 in North Springfield, VT. Historian Jill Mud…

CONCORD, N.H. — Attorney General John M. Formella announces that he and a bipartisan coalition of 43 state attorneys general have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging the federal government to update and strengthen the rules technology companies must follow under the federal …

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MONTPELIER, Vt. — Rootstock Publishing has announced the April releases of three debut poetry books: “Mountain Offerings” by Amy Allen of Shelburne; “Stonechat” by Mary Elder Jacobsen of Calais; and “Fire on a Circle” by Kim Ward of Montpelier. Allen, Jacobsen and Ward are the featured reade…

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We have two ruby-throated hummingbirds visiting our feeder regularly. One is a male and the other is a female. I think there are only two, but I can’t really tell one male/female hummingbird from another. We do see both of them at the same time, and they are almost always “fighting,” that is…

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Thursday, May 30, was an interesting day. Short staffed at the store with several employees either working other jobs, home with medical needs or off on vacations, I was left to run the store myself. I spend most of my time either on the farm doing farm chores, working with the books and pap…

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In “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, Alice stumbles upon a large mushroom. She peeps over the edge and encounters a caterpillar “smoking a long hookah and taking not the slightest notice of her or anything else.” If Alice had touched the creature, she might have been in fo…

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