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Showing posts with label New England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New England. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Maine lawmakers consider a moratorium on data center developments as more towns reject proposals

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Maine lawmakers are considering a moratorium  on data center builds. (Photo by I. Quick, Unsplash) As data center developers target parts of...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Neighbors in Maine volunteer to build window inserts for each other to fight the winter cold

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Students in Vermont build a WindowDresser insert.  ( Photo by  Andrew McKeever , The Yonder ) Harsh winters in Maine can make it hard to kee...
Friday, November 07, 2025

Quick hits: The American baked potato; rural deputies get EMS training; 6 states ban lab-grown meat sales; building homes in small town Vermont

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American-grown potatoes are still affordable and  delicious. (Idaho Potato Commission photo) In a time when going to the grocery store can b...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Irked by cars and crowds, rural New Englanders try different coping strategies to manage 'leaf-peepers'

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Idyllic autumn scenery draws thousands of tourists  to New England each fall. (Adobe Stock photo) As fall blows into rural New England, it b...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Friday's quick hits: This bot cleans up; sculpture park honors enslaved people; trying weird veggies; camping trip plan

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(The Searial Cleaners photo via Route Fifty) Almost everyone knows what a litterbug is, but what about a litterbot? In Detroit, a litter...
Monday, December 11, 2023

New England stone walls are a man-made wonder deserving their own branch of science

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Instagram photo via The Conversation Walls of rock with novel plant and animal life wind through New England, and it's time to give them...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Delving into rural homelessness, an anthropologist's new book takes an in-depth look at this often-hidden issue

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Families on the Edge was published August 15. (Photo from MIT Press via The Daily Yonder) Homelessness looks different depending on where y...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Secret ballot or public votes from the floor? Pandemic-era changes stir debate on New England town-meeting structure

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Town Meeting of Tunbridge, Vt., May 2022, delayed two months due to Covid-19  ( Valley News photo by James Patterson) May I have the floor?...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

New England subsidies help make community-supported agriculture programs accessible to low-income families

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A CSA share from Red Fire Farm (Photo submitted to The Daily Yonder ) Community-supported agriculture is a win-win for rural communities: Fa...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Sometimes, an obituary's not enough. Sometimes, a news story's not enough. Sometimes, you need the whole eulogy.

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David Ainsworth gave one of his cows a shot in his barn in 2007. (Photo by Ikuru Kuwajima; copyright, The Valley News) Community newspa...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

New England town meetings provide examples for the rest of the nation, British correspondent says

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Many New England towns still use their original political system of town meetings, which could teach the rest of the nation, including many...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

How the Newtown Bee covered the mass killing: one story that doesn't need to be behind a paywall

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It has no grand theorizing about community journalism, but Rachel Aviv's story in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine about ho...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Ash borer found east of Hudson River for first time

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Emerald ash borers, the invasive beetles that have destroyed tens of millions of ash trees over the past decade, have been discovered eas...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Maple industry booming, due to Quebec-set prices

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The maple-syrup industry is undergoing a "dramatic expansion" in the Northeast, thanks to high prices set by Canadians, reports S...
Saturday, February 04, 2012

Cuts in home-heating assistance hit hard in Maine

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Cuts in the home-heating assistance program are hitting hard in Maine, where "at this time of year, almost nothing matters here as ...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Weather may be good news for maple syrup season in New England, until the sap goes 'buddy'

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While much of the Northeast may still not have recovered from the deluge of snow it received this winter, spring is just around the corner a...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Oldest U.S. family farm faces the end of the line

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America's oldest operating family farm, which dates to 1632, has been put up for sale in Dover, N.H. Will Tuttle, 63, has decided his fa...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Website hopes to fill gap it sees in news coverage of 3-state rural region 'filled with smart people'

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Two former New York City journalists have launched a website aimed at serving a four-county, three-state rural region they say is underserv...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Fed up, Vt. journalist creates his own news outlet

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As the newspaper industry around him continued to slip, journalist and Vermonter Jon Margolis, left, took matters into his own hands with a...
Friday, December 05, 2008

College students help small Vt. town chart its path

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Many small towns struggle to balance economic growth with preservation of their community's spirit. One community is turning to the loca...