Olivia Richardson
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NHPR
The dispute highlights the challenges that come with the region’s growing agritourism scene.
Dave Wurtzel
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Connecticut Public
Patty Wight
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Maine Public
David Lawlor
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Rhode Island PBS
Journalists from the New England News Collaborative had a rare chance to see Vineyard Wind, the nation's largest standing offshore wind project.
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Stanley Clerge was arrested in 2023 for domestic violence but criminal charges were dropped. A POST Commission attorney wants him decertified as an officer. -
Milner, who died in November, became both Hartford’s and New England’s first popularly elected Black mayor when he took office in 1981. He will lie in state at Hartford City Hall on Thursday. -
For the second year in a row, 19 of the Cape’s 21 public drinking water supplies received an “Excellent” water quality score, and none was graded “Poor.” But the annual report also found that about 90 percent of embayments and more than a quarter of tested ponds on Cape Cod have "Unacceptable" water quality. -
Recent research suggests that the soft PVA plastics used to hold together detergent and dishwasher pods may not actually biodegrade. Now, a small team in Maine is working on a kelp bioplastic that could one day be used in your favorite detergent pod. -
A free state pilot program, which sends nurses and health workers to the homes of new mothers and newborns in the Bridgeport area, is expanding to Norwich. -
"On the surface it looks like we're just giving away free veggies," said Nour El-Naboulsi. "But we are bringing our community members into a solidarity fold." -
At a meeting in Pittsfield, Massachusetts this week General Electric presented its revised plan for transporting toxic waste during the clean up of the Housatonic River. The public criticized its first plan for not analyzing the use of rail over trucks. -
The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission is looking to allow "social consumption" spaces like lounges attached to licensed marijuana establishments or open areas connected to a licensed event space where people could use weed.
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