Twin State delegation hails earmarks’ Leahy-led return to Congress
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., looks on as Ellie Thibodeau, front left, and Sawyer Pringle, front right, show him their experiment of storing root vegetables through winter in a hole below the frost line in a corner of the Sharon Elementary School garden in Sharon, Vt., Thursday, May 6, 2021. Leahy recently introduced new legislation to expand Farm to School programs and visited the school to promote the programs. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wrote the charter of Farm to School programs and spoke of their benefits during a visit to Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt., Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
WEST LEBANON If you’re walking near the Kilton Public Library this week, be sure to look up.Up into the trees that is. That’s where you’ll see brightly painted birdhouses created by community members as part of the West Lebanon Birdhouse Project. As.
Art project brightens West Lebanon with birdhouses
Sol Pitarque, of West Lebanon, N.H., hangs a decorative birdhouse on a tree in front of the Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon on April 25, 2021. As part of the West Lebanon Birdhouse Project, 110 birdhouses will be hung through the village for the public art project. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Lauren Farrar, of West Lebanon, N.H., right, hands off a birdhouse to West Lebanon Birdhouse Project co-organizer Kim Wenger Hall, also of West Lebanon, as a group gathers to hang the painted birdhouses in the village on April 25, 2021. More than 100 people signed up for the project. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Taking a bike ride together is a fun way to promote getting fit as a family. Looking for a safe place to finally take the training wheels off your cycling plans? Pedal the day away at one of these 11 kid-friendly (and bicycle-friendly) trails and recreation paths.
Rockingham Rail Trail
Stretching more than 25 miles from Page Street in Manchester to the old rail depot building in Newfields, the wide packed gravel and dirt trail has multiple access points to make it easier to explore this Merrimack Valley to the Seacoast route in smaller sections. Popular stops (with parking areas) include Massabesic Lake and Candia. For a map and more information, go to www.nhstateparks.org and search for “Rockingham Rail Trail.”