Maggie Cassidy

1 month ago | vnews.com | Maggie Cassidy

Alanna Cilbrith of Lebanon Public Works installs sonic bird deterrent speakers on light poles on the pedestrian mall in Lebanon, N.H., on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The city is trying to prevent a murder of crows from roosting along the mall and in Colburn Park, where a second device will be installed. The speakers activate and emit a variable high pitched sound when street lights turn on at night. “I picked the least obnoxious noise,” said Assistant Public Works Director Rick Brown.

2 months ago | vnews.com | Maggie Cassidy

When I leave the house, I try to remember three things: my phone, my wallet (attached to my keys) and my water bottle. The wallet and keys are neutral tools, used for purchasing, locking, unlocking and other mundane tasks. You might assume the same neutrality for the phone and water bottle, but you’d be mistaken. The phone is born of evil, incessantly chirping, full of emails, luring me to the internet’s rage machines, lurid yet hypnotic.

Dec 29, 2024 | vtdigger.org | Maggie Cassidy

SOUTH BURLINGTON — Maureen Hastings, a lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Burlington office, pivoted among the five computer screens before her, each displaying a colorful digital smorgasbord of data. Interspersed with spreadsheets, line charts and big blocks of text, eight maps of New York and New England were overlaid with a variety of wavy lines, psychedelic-looking cross-sections of the rainbow and numbers — lots of numbers.

Nov 24, 2024 | vnews.com | Maggie Cassidy

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Photos Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Paul Sargent is seen in the late 1980s with his blue 1938 Ford “cab-over” dump truck, which has its cabin over the motor, and his dog, Kelsey, who was named after the Kelsey Hayes brand of wheels.

Sep 19, 2024 | vtdigger.org | Maggie Cassidy

MOSQUITOVILLE — Though a handful of outdoor events were canceled in Vermont in recent weeks to prevent the spread of a rare but serious mosquito-borne illness, none were crossed off the calendar in this tiny Barnet village that straddles the Ryegate line. Then again, there was not a lot in Mosquitoville that could be canceled.