Kornhauser describes a painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the landscape-oriented, mid-19th-century Hudson River School, depicting a tourist attraction on the Connecticut River.

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The Vermont Department of Health said it has found radioactive tritium in the Connecticut River, which probably leaked from the nearby Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.

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Ash trees are about 4 percent of the state's forests, and 80 percent of the state's 45 million ash trees are found west of the Connecticut River.

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Only two weeks ago the five-member NRC voted 4-0 (one recusal) to grant a 20-year license extension to the Vermont Yankee facility on the Connecticut River, just north of the Massachusetts border.

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As soon as you are properly hydrated and fortified at the mill, head west to the town of Essex where Connecticut River Expeditions runs a Fall Foliage Cruise aboard the RiverQuest.

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Rose hit five successive birdies on the back nine to go 14 under par at the River Highlands Club in Connecticut.

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Then the white barrels, the wooded hills on the far bank of the river, and beyond the hills the other side of Connecticut, the trip to the whaling ship at Mystic Seaport, somewhere out there Cape Cod, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa.

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