Three families who lost a loved one look back at a year of isolation
Betty Breunig took a year off after her first two years at Radcliffe College and taught English in Japan, which was still under American occupation. (Family photograph)
Barbara and Fay Burnham in a 2002 photograph the couple had been married since 1954. (Family photograph)
Juanita and John Claflin in an undated photograph. Married since 1956, the couple died within one week of each other earlier this year. (Family photograph)
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Tammy Vaughan and her siblings headed south to Florida from central Vermont in mid-January to see their father, who was 90 and had been battling cancer.
Wilder Dam owner wants to change up water discharges to help environment
The Wilder Dam over the Connecticut River, seen from the air on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. (Valley News - Charles Hatcher) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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WILDER The owner of the Wilder Dam is proposing to reduce the frequency and magnitude of how it discharges water to make electricity there and at two other hydroelectric facilities in southern Vermont, a move some stakeholders say could help endangered and threatened aquatic species and also reduce erosion.