The Athol Bird and Nature Club (ABNC) held the 54th annual Athol Circle Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This annual event is sponsored by the National Audubon Society and is designed to count all the species and individual birds participants can find in.
ORANGE Mahar School Committee members plan to bring an infectious disease specialist to their Oct. 28 meeting to speak on the merits of COVID-19 vaccine mandates before potentially voting on the matter.The committee held a virtual meeting last week.
and good evening. we begin here tonight with that severe weather, those fires and floods, the funnel clouds touching down in the heartland, causing so much misery this sunday night. in texas, winds of up to 40 miles an hour, fueling massive wildfires. nearly two dozen homes already destroyed. in the upper plains, the surging rivers now well above flood stage. and in western iowa, the governor has declared a state of emergency after tornadoes touched down. a hug there, their home gone. the one next door, still standing. barbara pinto leads us off, beginning with the dramatic pictures in iowa. reporter: terror rained from the skies in iowa. get back! reporter: at least 11 twisters were spotted. one took direct aim at mapleton, iowa. we kind of hid out up in the house, but we had blankets and stuff over our head, over our body and stuff so we didn t get glass. reporter: the tornado, a quarter of a mile wide, ripped through this small town, flattening more than 100 home