By BECKY NELSON If you are a gardener with spring bulbs planted, ready to cheer our world with bright blooms this spring, you probably had a few crocuses already in bloom and a mass of daffodils with bloom buds swollen and ready to pop when this last storm came. Here,[Read More…]
Lifestyles
Positive Profile of the Week: Todd Angilly
By JAY LUCAS Sunshine Report This week we are delighted to highlight a truly inspirational and patriotic spirit, Todd Angilly. Todd is renowned as the anthem singer for the Boston Bruins, where his powerful renditions of “The Star-Spangled Banner” have become a staple of pre-game rituals at the TD Garden.[Read More…]
An Iditarod veterinarian shares his experience in ‘Four Thousand Paws’
By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez c.2024 / Liveright / $27.99 / 304 pages There aren’t many things worse than unintentionally sliding on the ice. You know it’s going to happen before it does, and that makes it worse. You slip, recombobulate, whirl your arms and adjust, then boom, down[Read More…]
Public survey seeks to understand recreation needs, priorities
Eagle Times Staff MONTPELIER, Vt. — Individuals can join the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation (FPR) and the Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative (VOREC) in shaping the future of outdoor recreation in Vermont through the Move Forward Together Vermont Public Survey. The survey seeks public input about recreation needs[Read More…]
Training course offered for new hunter education instructors
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is offering a New Instructor Training Course for people interested in volunteering to teach Hunter Education courses in Vermont. The training will take place on Saturday, April 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the R.E.C. Zone, 94 Harvest Lane, Williston, VT 05495.[Read More…]
In 2023, a new Vermont fish record established
Eagle Times Staff RUTLAND, Vt. — Vermont Fish and Wildlife have announced that a longnose gar taken by a bowfishing angler in 2023 has been certified as a new state record. In May of 2023, Pennsylvania angler Jeremy Bicking was out bowfishing in the evening on Lake Champlain and took[Read More…]
Newport Senior Center News
NEWPORT, N.H. — Now is the time to share your experiences and concerns about your health care. Every three years, New London Hospital and Newport Health Center conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment that includes a Community Health survey that will be made available digitally, as well as on paper.[Read More…]
Pecking only in the pines
By BILL CHAISSON Of a Feather Friends of mine who winter on the Gulf Coast of Florida recently saw what they at first guessed was a red-cockaded woodpecker. It was small, black checked with white, with a small red spot on the head. As it happens this also meets the[Read More…]
Maple Season 2024
By Becky Nelson Bramblings I am worried. I am worried about the maple season here in the Northeast. We should just be entering the six weeks or so of optimal weather to make the sticky, sweet liquid gold that many farms and maple orchards here in New England depend upon[Read More…]
A new invasive zigzagging across North America
By Jen Weimer The Outside Story There’s a new invasive insect zigzagging its way across North America. First reported by citizen scientists in Quebec in 2020, the elm zigzag sawfly (Aproceros leucopoda) has now spread to North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Vermont. This new pest,[Read More…]