by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
As of July 1, plastic bags are mostly illegal in Vermont and people cannot throw food scraps in the garbage. These two laws, in the works for a while, were almost sidelined by COVID-19 but, as VTDigger reports (here), they have stayed in effect. Vermont has slowly...
by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Traffic counts at E-ZPass stations on New Hampshire highways are back to the level they were at before the stay-at-home order arrived March 28. So one of the few benefits of the pandemic has faded away. Car traffic is actually slightly behind the long-term average...
by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Sea lice hurt Atlantic salmon, steelhead trout and other salmonids, and researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire believe using lumpfish as cleanerfish—fish that eat parasites off other...
by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(UPDATE: This ran Monday and I write this on Thursday. Numbers have continued to be good: No new hospitalizations for three days has driven the 14-day average to a record low and new cases are below 30 a day. We’re still seeing some deaths in nursing homes,...
by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Those clever folks at Green Mountain Power created an app so that people with rooftop solar (there are a lot of them in Vermont) can donate solar credits to local businesses struggling because of the pandemic. Here’s a Rutland Herald story about...
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