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What’s in New Hampshire’s waste stream?

by Sruthi Gopalakrishnan Monitor staffApril 30, 2025

It’s not just food waste from homes and businesses overwhelming landfills in New Hampshire.

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New Hampshire expects next year’s food waste ban to increase diversion to facility market

by Sruthi Gopalakrishnan Monitor staffJuly 17, 2024

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Peterborough Boy Scouts are collecting trees

by Jesseca Timmons Monadnock Ledger-Transcript January 3, 2024

Dublin Fire Chief Tom Vanderbilt checks in on a dry hydrant along Dublin Lake on Tuesday. The department has discontinued use of several dry hydrants in recent years as the small bodies of water they drew supply from dried up.

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Dealing with drought

by Scott Merrill Monadnock Ledger-TranscriptJuly 29, 2022

Cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa, in 2015. The confirmation of bird flu at another Iowa egg-laying farm will force the killing of more than 5 million chickens, officials said in March 2022. Spread of the disease is largely blamed on the droppings or nasal discharge of infected wild birds, such as ducks and geese, which can contaminate dust and soil.

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Experts: All size flocks ‘at risk’ for deadly avian flu

by Claire Potter Valley NewsApril 15, 2022

A pothole on Grove Street in Peterborough.

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Winters are changing. What does that mean?

by Rowan Wilson Monadnock Ledger-TranscriptFebruary 28, 2022

An empty maple syrup tap in Jaffrey.

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Maple syrup season depends on the right weather

by Rowan Wilson Monadnock Ledger-TranscriptJanuary 27, 2022

MilliporeSigma has EV chargers set up in the employee parking lot of its Jaffrey plant.

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Peterborough approves electric vehicle charger installation plan

by Abbe Hamilton Monadnock Ledger-TranscriptJuly 7, 2021

The Peterborough Recycling Center is no longer accepting some items for recycling to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, patrons may throw their recyclables in with their household garbage.

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Recycling Center phasing back some services

by Staff Report June 4, 2020

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Peterborough recycling center: Household recyclables will be disposed of in solid waste compactor

by Staff Report March 18, 2020