October 28, 2009

Watershed council’s “grand finals” a hit for all

Filed under: Press Release, Song Writing Contest — Tags: — ctriver @ 12:00 pm

Greenfield, MA. October 28, 2009.
Over 150 people tramped through the drying maple leaves of Greenfield’s Court Square on Sunday, October 25th and up the steps of the 2nd Congregational Church to hear a new crop of home-grown Connecticut River Valley songs in the Connecticut River Watershed Council’s “Living along the River” songwriting contest. [...]

October 2, 2009

Showers unlikely to dampen four-state river cleanup

Filed under: Clean Rivers, Press Release, Source to Sea Cleanup — Tags: — ctriver @ 12:00 pm

Press release: for immediate release
Greenfield, MA. October 2, 2009.
Predictions of wet weather are not getting in the way of tomorrow’s planned four-state Connecticut River Watershed Council Source to Sea Cleanup, “Barring thunderstorms or any safety concerns due to the weather folks will be out cleaning up riverside sites tomorrow morning,” says Chelsea Gwyther, CRWC’s [...]

October 1, 2009

Close Encounters of the Snapper Kind

Filed under: "River Currents" column, Article — Tags: , , — ddeen @ 12:00 pm

Vermont. October 01, 2009.
The idea was to move along the shore toward a large bass that just splashed in the shallow water. The muck bottom made wading tricky and it took so much concentration the turtle was unseen the first time I waded by it. The bottom proved to be too big a challenge [...]