Woodstock Selectboard declines Faulkner Park offer >Dara Safizadeh, left, and Mora Coon, of West Hartford, Conn., walk the Faulkner Trail to the South Peak of Mount Tom in Woodstock, Vt., Friday, May 28, 2021. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Valley News James M. Patterson
Modified: 7/6/2021 8:54:30 PM
WOODSTOCK The Selectboard voted Tuesday to reject an offer from the trust that manages Faulkner Park to transfer ownership of the property and an endowment to support it over to the town.
The vote was unanimous, with only board member John Doten not present.
Updated at 9:04 PM
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The pandemic fueled a hiking boom, but there are still places to avoid a crowd on the trail
Foot traffic on Maine trails is has trailed off from the pandemic-crazed high of 2020, but still higher that before COVID-19. Here are some hidden gems.
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Hikers revel in the views while hiking theParks Bennett Loop in Bethel. With such an increased demand on trails, folks at Inland Woods + Trails took the initiative and in April constructed a 3-mile loop trail in the newly conserved Bethel Community Forest.
Photo by Gabe Perkins
From the North Maine Woods to western Maine, down through southern Maine and along the coast to the Downeast region, land managers echo similar reports on hiker traffic: It is down from the wild spike that occurred in 2020 due to COVID-19 – when trail use doubled in many places – but Maine’s trails are still busy.
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Remembering the B-17 crash on Mount Tom 75 years on > >Published: 7/4/2021 8:36:49 PM
HOLYOKE On a dark, rainy night on July 9, 1946, about two dozen servicemen aboard a B-17 “Flying Fortress” were returning home from war. They had served in World War II and were flying towards Westover Field from Greenland with their final instructions to “Report for Separation.”
The war was over and they were heading back to their families a journey they never completed. The B-17, carrying 25 servicemen, crashed into Mount Tom in the late hours of the night. The men died upon impact on the side of the mountain, nearly 300 feet below the summit.