Bradford L. Miner
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Camp spirit: Teacher takes on playful challenges to support a summer staple
NEW BRAINTREE – It’s been the quietest summer in 73 years at Camp Putnam on Rutherford Road. There are no campers splashing in the pool, canoeing on the pond, creating arts and crafts projects, practicing talent show skits, singing camp songs around the campfire. The COVID-19 pandemic saw to it that the nearly 700 youngsters who annually enjoy one of six weeks of fun in the woods would have one… → Read More
No fair: Coronavirus forces cancellation of region's venerable fairs
HARDWICK — A bucolic fair that traces its roots to 1762 and boasts of being “the Oldest Fair in America,” will be among → Read More
Loon repopulation is another Mass. wildlife success story
WESTBORO – Like the bald eagle, the common loon continues expanding its nesting territories, repopulating sites in Massachusetts it hadn’t → Read More
Memories in the making at Hardwick Fair
HARDWICK – The Hardwick Community Fair, alive and well for 257 years and heralded as the oldest community fair in the country, drew large crowds with perfect weather Friday night for the lumberjack contest, the exhibit halls and opening ceremonies on Hardwick Common.Chris Hinckley, honored with this year’s fair dedication for 32 years as a volunteer, was front and center Saturday morning,… → Read More
Nipmuk group buys land in Petersham for cultural center
PETERSHAM — For hundreds of years the indigenous people known as Nipmuc or “freshwater people” have called the woodlands, lakes → Read More
Quabbin Reservation to be open to deer hunting Dec. 12-13
BELCHERTOWN – For the first time since the 1930s, white-tailed deer will be hunted this December throughout the 3,400-acre Quabbin Park.The two-day controlled hunt by special permit will allow 100 hunters access to the southernmost area of Quabbin Reservation, including Winsor Dam and Goodnough Dike.The hunt will be held Dec. 12 and 13, a Thursday and Friday, and will coincide with the… → Read More
Everose Schluter named assistant director of state endangered species program
WESTBORO – Everose M. Schluter has been named assistant director of the state Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, succeeding Tom French.Mr. French retired in February after a 35-year career at the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.Most recently, Ms. Schluter was assistant director in the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office in Boston, working in the Executive Office of… → Read More
MassWildlife's Tom French wraps up 35 years as guardian of state's endangered species
WESTBORO – Tom French was eligible for state retirement three years ago, but he says he stayed on because he was having too much fun. → Read More
North Brookfield voters approve stabilization account to pay special education costs
NORTH BROOKFIELD — Voters at a special town meeting Friday night established a Special Education Stabilization Account; funded it with a transfer of $134,078 from available funds; and approved the lease of 22 self-contained breathing apparatus for the fire department.Superintendent Richard Lind explained to voters that the school district was obligated for the expense of an out-of-district… → Read More
North Brookfield drops solar developer Melink
NORTH BROOKFIELD – Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday to end a four-year relationship with Melink Corp. of Milford, Ohio, for development of ground-mounted solar arrays on four town-owned sites.The board’s action came in response to an email from Melink requesting a lease extension. The company explained it was being held up by the state’s request for a transmission-level study by National… → Read More
Barre town meeting voters to be asked to spend $500,000 on fire engine
BARRE – Five marijuana-related requests and $500,000 to replace a firetruck highlight a 14-article special town meeting set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ruggles Lane School auditorium.Voters will be asked to consider a general bylaw for marijuana establishment licensing; a marijuana establishment zoning bylaw; a 3 percent local sales tax on marijuana products; an extension of the moratorium on… → Read More
Wheelwright Pond Dam to be removed
HARDWICK – The removal of the Wheelwright Pond Dam has been identified as one of a dozen priority river and wetland restoration projects that will → Read More
53 deer taken from Wachusett Reservoir area in first hunt in decades
PETERSHAM – For David Bennett of Paxton persistence paid off this week with venison in the freezer.Mr. Bennett has taken part in 15 of the annual → Read More
New giant viruses unearthed in soil at Harvard Forest in Petersham
PETERSHAM – Ordinarily when folks think of a virus this time of year, it’s a common cold or the flu – nothing to rejoice over.But a → Read More
State rejects proposal for floating solar array on Quabbin Reservoir
BELCHERTOWN – The Department of Conservation and Recreation has no interest in pursuing a Solar Wolf Energy proposal for a floating solar array on Quabbin Reservoir.Last month Ted Strzelecki, Solar Wolf Energy chief executive, sent a letter to Mark Tisa, MassWildlife director, proposing a 5-megawatt floating solar installation on the 412-billion gallon reservoir.In a Dec. 3 letter to Mr.… → Read More
State throws cold water on idea of floating solar array on Quabbin Reservoir
BELCHERTOWN – A Millbury-based solar energy company has floated the idea of covering 24,000 surface acres of Quabbin Reservoir with a floating → Read More
From Quabbin to Wachusett, swath of land protected from development
PETERSHAM – Chimney Hill Farm, 760 acres of forest and field tucked away at the end of Hall Road, was the centerpiece Saturday for Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust’s celebration of the culmination of the Quabbin to Wachusett land conservation initiative.More than 160 were on hand for a tour of the woodland, a view of the working farm home to 36 Devon beef cattle, a buffet luncheon and the… → Read More
Two-lined chestnut borer beetle chew through leafy oaks at Sturbridge's Wells State Park
STURBRIDGE — There is a new thief in town, and those who enjoy camping at Wells State Park next summer will be the first to realize they’ve been robbed of their favorite shaded campsite.The culprit is the two-lined chestnut borer, a native beetle that delivers the death knell to oaks that have sustained repeated years of stress from drought and gypsy moth defoliation.Ken Gooch, Forest Health… → Read More
Foresters take chainsaws to mighty Quabbin Oak
BELCERTOWN — The massive Quabbin Oak that for decades welcomed visitors at the west entrance of the Quabbin Reservation, will be on the ground → Read More
Quabbin regional school board votes to close New Braintree Grade School
BARRE – The Quabbin Regional School Committee voted Thursday night to begin the process of closing the New Braintree Grade School.The vote came → Read More