Howard Weiss-Tisman
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Vermont Public
The Luman R. Nelson taxidermy collection, which includes more than 600 birds and animals, has been in Marlboro since the early 1960s. The museum where it’s housed lost their lease and the collection is to be put into storage.
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Courtesy, Appalachian Mountain Club
Craig LeMoult
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GBH News
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Our public media journalists explored fun things to do on day trips in the states that make up New England. Not a bad assignment.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a contest to find a new way to reduce the toxicity of PCBs in rivers. The method won't be used to eliminate the PCB disposal site in Lee, Massachusetts, which is part of the agency's clean up of the Housatonic River. -
In the last two weeks alone, IFAW’s Yarmouth-based marine mammal rescue team has responded to 26 stranded dolphins, including 14 stranded bottlenose dolphins in Brewster on Monday. That event marked the largest recorded mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins in the U.S. Northeast. -
Fifty years after Boston's court-ordered busing plan aimed to address racial segregation in public schools, the city continues to deal with its effects. Three panelists emphasized the need to shift focus from busing to investing in quality education within neighborhoods. -
The Government Accountability Office found that Black girls received nearly half of the most severe punishments, like expulsion, even though they represent only 15% of girls in public schools. -
It’s been almost a year since the Food and Drug Administration approved the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease. So far, only a few patients have received the long-awaited treatments. -
A biomedical engineering professor at UMass Amherst is leading a study to help find biomarkers for the cognitive disease, long before dementia sets in. -
As extreme rainfall becomes more common, a nonpartisan group of leaders representing Connecticut towns and cities calls for a plan to address flooding. -
Inspections by the state health officials in 2023 documented allegations of a nurse “kissing and touching” a patient’s private area in the patient’s room.
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