In addition to its controversial transmission line project in Maine, the firm is pushing two big wind farms off the coast of Nantucket Island to furnish green power to New England.
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Tests begin on bones that may be Revolutionary War soldiers’
A university laboratory is beginning tests on skeletal remains found beneath an 18th century home to help identify the three people believed to be soldiers killed during the Revolutionary War.
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Posted inNation & World, New England
Mainer among 4 activists arrested trying to block coal-carrying train
The group Climate Disobedience Center has held several protests recently trying to stop coal shipments to the power plant in Bow, New Hampshire.
Posted inNation & World, New England
New Hampshire hiker rescued after night in whiteout, freezing conditions
The man had turned back after trying to make it to the summit of Mount Lafayette when he fell down a steep, rocky section of Mount Lincoln.
Posted inLocal & State, New England, News
Turnpike tolls about to end at N.H. highway exit
There will be no more toll-collecting at the Exit 11 northbound and southbound ramps of the Everett Turnpike in Merrimack as of New Year’s Day.
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In search of Thoreau’s Mount Katahdin map
A retired University of Maine at Farmington administrator has been trying to track down an elusive ‘diagram’ Henry David Thoreau may have drawn more than 160 years ago.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Woman who killed 2 children in Boston is remembered by former colleagues
Erin Pascal was a biotech company’s director of social responsibility and community relations.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, New England
Christmas tree growers in New England report good year, despite challenges
Stephen Higgins, president of the Maine Christmas Tree Association, says it was a ‘seller’s market’ this season.
Posted inLocal & State, New England
Westbrook ice disk tops quirky New England news in 2019
A naked fireman, a binky-binging bulldog and a house-cleaning burglar are among the year’s other oddities.
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Mother killed 2 children, then herself at Boston parking garage, police believe
Erin Pascal, 40 and her kids – Allison, 4, and Andrew, 15 months – were pronounced dead at a local hospital.