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Cross-country skiers take advantage of great conditions - which have been the minority this winter - at Windblown ski area in New Ipswich in late February. Photo by Annie Ropeik for NHPR

Old-School Snow Sports Push Through ‘Winter Whiplash’ of Climate Change

March 20, 2019

The melty weather in New Hampshire this winter has been a big problem for some kinds of seasonal recreation — and it’s all part of a long-term warming trend.

Barbara and Jessica pose for a portrait in the place in the living room where the incident with Elijah happened, on March 11, 2019, in Warwick, Rhode Island. Photo by Kayana Szymczak for ProPublica

How Rhode Island’s Emergency 911 System Failed Baby Alijah

March 20, 2019

Bloomfield is hosting one of three pilot projects anticipated to test the community solar idea in Connecticut. Photo by Ryan Caron King for Connecticut Public Radio

In Connecticut, The Costs And Benefits Of Shared Solar Are Tough To Calculate

March 18, 2019

Renewable energy projects have been growing across New England in recent years. And while offshore wind and grid-scale solar have gotten lots of the attention — a smaller, more community-oriented way of getting power has been steadily taking hold: “shared clean energy.”

Bhuwan Sharma, co-owner of Burlington Employment Agency, at his Old North End office. He said his business has plateaued due in large part to Bhutanese-Nepali refugees moving from Vermont to Columbus, Ohio. Photo by Bayla Metzger for VPR

Vermont Officials, Businesses Concerned About Decline In Refugees

March 18, 2019

The Burlington area is a hub for refugees and immigrants in Vermont, but area officials and businesses are concerned about this population shrinking. Recent federal restrictions have limited the number of refugees coming to the state and there’s another problem too: some New Americans are choosing to leave Vermont.

Holyoke, Massachusetts, between 1936 and 1937. Photo by Lewis Hine, courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Rocky Marciano’s Career Began With A St. Patrick’s Day Bout In Holyoke, Massachusetts

March 15, 2019

Seventy-two years ago this St. Patrick’s Day, Rocky Marciano — one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time — came to fight in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It was a turning point in his life.

A billboard, at right, on Route 7 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was paid for by the mother of a man who says he was sexually abused decades ago in a now-closed elementary school in Sheffield. This one went up in February. Photo by Nancy Eve Cohen for NEPR

Billboard Prompts Survivors Of Child Sexual Abuse To Come Forward, Decades Later

March 14, 2019

The mother of a man who says he was sexually abused as a child in a Berkshire County elementary school paid for two billboards this winter to call attention to the case.

The Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center in Plymouth houses men for court-mandated addiction treatment. Photo by Robin Lubbock for WBUR

Group Of Civilly Committed Men Sues Massachusetts Alleging Gender Discrimination In ‘Section 35’ Law

March 14, 2019

A group of men is suing the state of Massachusetts over the law, known as “Section 35,” that allowed a judge to involuntarily commit each of them to addiction treatment.

Bringing Hydro Power From Canada To Massachusetts: Comparing Northern Pass And New England Clean Energy Connect

March 14, 2019

We’re going to take you on a journey. It starts in frigid Québec, where a gigantic, decades-old project that dammed rivers and forced native people off their land and has become a source of provincial pride, and a lot of power. Power-hungry Massachusetts saw Hydro-Québec’s big dams as a zero-carbon answer to their prayers.

Yale University, one of several schools targeted in bribery scheme. Photo by Frankie Graziano for Connecticut Public Radio

Local College Admissions Advisers Say Scam Is Not That Surprising

March 13, 2019

Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling didn’t mince words when describing the college admissions scam led by consultant William Singer, who pleaded guilty.

Small businesses including an upscale coffee shop have recently opened on Main Street, intermingling with crumbling buildings. Photo by Cassandra Basler for WSHU

Historic Willimantic, Connecticut To Demolish Rough Reputation

March 12, 2019

Two grand hotels on historic Main Street of Willimantic, Connecticut, hosted movers and shakers from New York and Boston during the golden age of train travel. The hotels fell into disrepair when travelers took to the highways. Cheap rooms, cheap heroin and social services drew addicts, sex workers and the unemployed. A plan to demolish the buildings may force the town to reconcile its grand history and troubled past.