Column: Hydro companies need better recreation plans >The portage parade around the Bellows Falls Dam in Walpole, N.H. (Photograph courtesy of the Connecticut River Conservancy)
Modified: 7/23/2021 10:10:11 PM
Hydroelectric companies are required to provide recreation amenities as mitigation for using the public’s water to generate power. The dams in Wilder, Bellows Falls and Vernon, Vt., operated by Great River Hydro, are renewing their operating licenses under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Later this summer, the public will have an opportunity to comment on these licenses, which will impact more than 175 miles of the Connecticut River for the next 40-50 years.
Group highlights need for better access to Connecticut River >Cathy Urffer and her son, Connor Noyes-Urffer, paddled to Unity Park in Turners Falls on Saturday and were pulling their canoe out of the water where the Connecticut River Conservancy wants portage put in. STAFF PHOTO/CHRIS LARABEE >Andrea Donlon, the Connecticut River Conservancy’s river steward, speaks during a press conference at Unity Park in Turners Falls on Saturday. STAFF PHOTO/CHRIS LARABEE >The Connecticut River Conservancy’s Portage Parade on Saturday followed the bike trail around the Turners Falls Dam. STAFF PHOTO/CHRIS LARABEE >The Connecticut River Conservancy advocated for improved portage routes around the Turners Falls Dam and more investment into recreation on the river during a press conference and parade Saturday morning at Unity Park. STAFF PHOTO/CHRIS LARABEE
There are, on average, about 300,000 shad migrating on the Connecticut River each spring, according to counts monitored at Holyoke and reported by the Connecticut River Conservancy. But there once were, and could one day be, tens of millions of shad in the river, said Andrew Fisk, Executive Director of the Connecticut River Conservancy. One problem is that the fish ladder at Turners Falls was .
GREENFIELD, Mass. – Join the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) for the first-ever Great Connecticut River Migratory Shad Count – a fish count contest. The goal of the contest is to
ROCKFORD The case for a man acquitted of murder and his quest for a certificate of innocence will continue for at least another three weeks.
Patrick Pursley, accompanied by his attorney Rachel Brady, appeared Monday in Winnebago County Court before Judge Joe McGraw. Their appearance came two months after McGraw granted the certificate and three weeks after the state and a private law firm asked McGraw to reconsider his decision.
Pursley, now lives in the Champaign area served 23 years of a life sentence in prison in connection to the 1993 murder of Andy Ascher.
Ascher and his girlfriend, Becky Myers, whose last name was George in 1993, were seated in a car on Silent Wood Trail when a man wearing a ski mask approached and demanded their money. The man, whose face was not see, then proceeded to shoot Ascher in the head.