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Photo credit: iBerkshires By Brittany Polito PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Community partners gathered at the Churchill Brook culvert on Hancock Road ...
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iBerkshires.com GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA), in partnership with the town of Great Barrington, has produced a Road-Stream ...
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Cornwall Bridge, CT – The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) received National Garden Clubs, Inc. (NGC) Award of Excellence in May ...
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Scott Stafford, The Berkshire Eagle Several projects in the Berkshires to handle heavier rains brought on by the changing climate ...
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The Register Citizen Photo credit: Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut CORNWALL — The members of National Garden Clubs, Inc. (NGC) ...
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Michael Walsh, CT Insider CORNWALL — The Housatonic Valley Association is encouraging the exploration of its 2,000 square miles of ...
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Main Street Magazine The Housatonic Valley Association’s (HVA) Explore-a-thon event invites outdoors enthusiasts, families, friends, community members, and anyone who loves ...
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The Register Citizen   6/11/22 Photo credit: Aquarion BRIDGEPORT — Water Company on June 4 celebrated the five winners of its ...
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Register Citizen The Housatonic Valley Association recently opened online registration for an Explore-a-thon event, a unique way to promote awareness and develop ...
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THE REGISTER CITIZEN Emily M. Olson WINSTED — A town meeting on May 16 will ask residents to approve selling ...
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iBerkshires.com PITTSFIELD, Mass. — On behalf of the Berkshire Clean, Cold and Connected (BCCC) Restoration Partnership, the Housatonic Valley Association ...
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News Provided By Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection BOSTON — The Baker-Polito Administration, as part of the Administration’s Earth Week ...
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Photo by Debra A. Aleksinas TriCorner News by Debra A. Aleksinas CORNWALL — Referred to as a “national treasure” by ...
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A view of the Housatonic River in northwest Connecticut. Photo by Amanda Cabanillas The Litchfield County Times By Michael Walsh CORNWALL ...
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Photo by Paul Mailhot-Singer Lakeville Journal By Patrick L. Sullivan The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) has a short film on ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2022 Funds will help keep the Housatonic clean, safe, and accessible for all The Housatonic ...
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Photo by James O'Connor Berkshire Eagle By Jeannie Maschino The Housatonic Valley Association debuted a short film on Jan. 14 ...
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Photo by James O'Connor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 2022 Follow the Forest: A Conservation Initiative Uniting Partners Across the ...
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The Register Citizen TORRINGTON — The Northwest CT Community Foundation has awarded grants to 19 area nonprofit organizations, totaling $147,250 ...
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Newtown Road is blocked by overflowing water from Limekiln Brook in Danbury. Remnants of hurricane Ida brought heavy rain and ...
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The Housatonic Valley Association is receiving a grant of $59,085 to restore aquatic ecosystems and boost climate change resiliency in ...
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Julia Perkins, NewsTimes The Housatonic Valley Association has received a combined $137,000 in grants that will support efforts to improve ...
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The Register Citizen A view of Crystal Lake in Winchester.   Jerry Dougherty / Contributed By Emily M. Olson WINSTED — ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) has been awarded two grants from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Friday, December 3, 2021, over 70 staff, board members, friends, and supporters of the Housatonic Valley ...
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Gene Chague, Berkshire Eagle A stretch of the Housatonic River winds through Lenox Photo by STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN — THE BERKSHIRE ...
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Berkshire Edge The Housatonic Stream Restoration for Regional Flood Resilience Project spans the City of Pittsfield and the Towns of ...
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Robert Miller, NewsTimes When we look at the woods, we think of them as something that’s always been there and ...
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Photo credit: Steep Rock Association HVA recently joined several organizations, local land trusts, community members, and State Representatives Maria Horn ...
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Berkshire Eagle To the editor: This past Saturday, I joined a group of determined local folks to remove trash from ...
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REGISTER CITIZEN GOSHEN — United States Senator Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, is holding a Highlands Reauthorization Roundtable in Goshen June 28 ...
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The Register Citizen TORRINGTON — The Northwest CT Community Foundation has awarded grants to 24 area nonprofit organizations, totaling $106,850 ...
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Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals By Kevin Zimmerman  May 5, 2021 Several Fairfield County projects are among the recipients ...
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Newstimes Kendra Baker  May 4, 2021 Thousands of dollars in state grant money will support several Danbury-area projects designed to ...
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FORT MONTGOMERY, NY — Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring, announced bipartisan legislation Friday that would reauthorize a conservation act ...
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ctpost   Sandra Diamond Fox April 12, 2021 NEW MILFORD — Dressed in old clothes and wearing work gloves and boots, about ...
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Register Citizen WASHINGTON — Actor Christine Baranski’s annual harvest-time tradition of hosting HVA’s Auction for the Environment is a winter-time ...
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Cornwall Conservation Trust has announced the protection of Red Mountain (Galluci) preserve (66 acres). This was the fifth Highlands project ...
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The Litchfield County Times By Sandra Diamond Fox, Jan 8, 2021 NEW MILFORD — Through a community-wide effort, a polluted ...
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The Greater New Milford Spectrum The Housatonic Valley Association, which serves the Greater New Milford area and beyond, recently announced ...
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By Robert Miller The Housatonic Valley Association hosted its annual Still River Day to teach Danbury middle and elementary school ...
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New Milford Spectrum The John T. and Jane A. Wiederhold Foundation has awarded Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) a $60,000 Habitat, ...
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NEW MILFORD SPECTRUM The Housatonic Valley Association announced its virtual benefit auction for the environment has been moved from Nov ...
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TriCorner News From the Lakeville Journal and the Millerton News August 12, 2020    By Patrick L. Sullivan There was less activity ...
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TriCorner News From Lakeville Journal and Millerton News August 6, 2020    By By Patrick L. Sullivan AMESVILLE — The weekend of ...
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Republican-American\ With increasing crowds converging at sites along the Housatonic River, area leaders and organizations are coming together to find ...
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Register Citizen   August 5, 2020 Area leaders and organizations are coming together to find a long-term plan for safe and ...
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Litchfield County Times By Joseph Montebello, Jun 26, 2020 WATERTOWN — There is a lot to preserve in the Litchfield ...
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From June 15 through July 31, more than 50 nonprofits are participating in Northwest Corner Gives (www.northwestcornergives.org), a crowdfunding giving platform, ...
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Spectrum/William Neary used a drone to make digital images of the Old Warren Center Cemetery as part of a digital ...
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CT Post Mike Jastremski, Watershed Conservation Director Photo: H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut Media Mike Jastremski, water shed ...
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NEWS TIMES By Katrina Koerting Published 3:22 pm EDT, Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Photo: Contributed Photo / Western Connecticut State ...
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PATCH Naugatuck This three-year project entails planting more than 2,000 native plants and restoring more than three-acres of habitat. DANBURY, ...
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02/10/2020 Contact Information: David Deegan (deegan.dave@epa.gov) 617-918-1017 LENOX, Mass. – Following more than a year of mediated negotiations, the U.S ...
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United States Environmental Protection Agency BOSTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that $1.5 million in competitive ...
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TORRINGTON REGISTER WASHINGTON — The Housatonic Valley Association’s Annual Auction for our Environment is set for 2 p.m. on Nov ...
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TOWN TIMES WASHINGTON — The Housatonic Valley Association’s annual Auction for Our Environment will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, November 10 ...
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NEW MILFORD SPECTRUM The Housatonic Valley Association will hold on Nov. 10 its annual auction to help fund HVA’s water ...
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By Josh Landes    WAMC Northeast Report The Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is holding a climate change preparedness forum ...
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Berkshire Eagle Posted Friday, September 20, 2019 To the editor: Lee was even cleaner this year during this year's Founders ...
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ALBANY – The State Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded $216,000 for two projects to help communities prepare for and ...
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The Newtown Bee published some news from years gone by and this was one of the short articles. September 16, ...
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HVA is one of 25 organizations achieving renewed accreditation Saratoga Springs, New York (August 6, 2019) – Summer is the ...
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Berkshire Eagle The Berkshire Environmental Action Team, the Hoosic River Watershed Association and the Housatonic Valley Association have received a ...
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The volunteers will be eliminating invasive plants from the 17 acres of open-space across from the Oxford Town Hall By ...
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Jim Perkins, president of the Housatonic Valley Association Board of Directors in the early 1990s, died April 16 in Kent ...
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By Robert Miller Torrington Register Citizen Zetterstrom and his team of volunteers — the Knotweed Network — have paddled the ...
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Berkshire Eagle, June 18, 2019 An opening reception for The River Art Project 3 will be held from 6 to ...
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Published in the Register Citizen CORNWALL — A new river access site is opening on the Housatonic River. In the ...
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By Robert Miller When, in the late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution knocked, the state of Connecticut swung the door ...
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The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) is seeking applications for our River Steward of Tomorrow Watershed Conservation Internship position, available for ...
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By Josh Landes • May 1, 2019 Tonight in Lenox, Massachusetts, state and federal officials will hold a public meeting ...
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Housatonic Valley Association Location: Stockbridge, Massachusetts Job Type: Full-time Categories: Natural Resources/ Restoration / Project Management / When you apply ...
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Posted Saturday, April 20, 2019 By Clarence Fanto, Eagle correspondent General Electric is ponying up $1.5 million for the fourth ...
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Narain Schroeder, left, and Dennis Regan reveal the new Housatonic River boat launch Thursday on Division Street in Great Barrington ...
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By Gene Chague, The Berkshire Eagle Dennis Regan took the job of Berkshire Manager for the Housatonic Valley Association in ...
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The EPA’s New England office — which serves six states and ten tribal nations — has been run by an acting administrator ...
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It's not just bridges that have fallen into decay because of decades of deferred maintenance, VanDeusen said — it's also ...
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News Times By Robert Miller, Sunday, April 7, 2019 Photos: Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media Who owns the rain? ...
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www.nepr.net Some environmental groups say they're frustrated with the lack of progress on talks over the cleanup of the Housatonic ...
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LENOX — Leaders of local environmental groups are prohibited from saying what's afoot in talks over how industrial toxins will ...
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The land trust accreditation program recognizes land conservation organizations that meet national quality standards for protecting important natural places and ...
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In a huge bipartisan victory for the local environment, the U.S. Senate has passed the Natural Resources Management Act, which ...
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HVA has joined with the Town of New Milford and other area conservation organizations to urge Connecticut DEEP to enforce ...
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$49k NYSDEC grant supports “Trees for Tribs” efforts in the Ten Mile River and Green River watersheds The Housatonic Valley ...
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From Robert Miller, Danbury News Times: There’s a 202-acre collection of lands on Coltsfoot Mountain in Cornwall which the town’s ...
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The interactive trail map created by HVA for the Northwest Hills Council of Governments has won a CT American Planning ...
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HVA has replaced a crumbling culvert on Churchill Brook in Pittsfield with a new fish-friendly passage thanks to the support ...
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HVA will develop a “learning zone” at trail site by Webatuck Creek. The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) has been awarded ...
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More than 100 students touch fish, meet bugs and build model watersheds while learning about river history, ecology and preservation ...
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HVA and our Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative recently wrapped up a contract with the Northwest Hills Council of Governments (NHCOG) ...
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Mass. Environmental Trust Grant will fund continuing work on the Southwest Branch of the Housatonic HVA is thrilled to announce ...
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The Housatonic Valley Association supports the request from multiple community leaders for rigorous baseline air and water quality monitoring before ...
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Volunteering is a great way to get some exercise, meet new people who share your interests, and of course to ...
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At a celebration event held on July 13 with Sen. Chris Murphy, the Housatonic Valley Association presented the Connecticut Department ...
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Grant will support the construction and upkeep of boat launches at Harrybrooke Park and Erickson Road The Housatonic Valley Association ...
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Why should YOU care about protecting public lands? On November 6th the citizens of Connecticut can vote “YES” on the ...
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America's most important conservation and recreation program will expire in less than a year unless Congress acts. For 52 years, ...
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On Friday, July 27thmore than 50 friends and supporters of the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) gathered at the Stockbridge Train ...
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Come join our Still River Watershed Connections team and hear firsthand how they: Sweated the humid days to remove Knotweed ...
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From the News Times: About 50 yards back from the Still River is a 2,000-square-foot patch of Japanese barberry — ...
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Read coverage of this effort in the News Times! HVA is checking out culverts in Washington and Roxbury to determine ...
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Cornwall Consolidated School students got a new perspective on rivers and the water cycle in an afternoon of activities led ...
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Outdoor Classroom teaches map skills and fly casting, too. In celebration of Earth Day, Sharon Central School students (Grades 1-8) ...
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Looking for a way to get "hands-on" with river protection? HVA Berkshires has lots of upcoming volunteer opportunities and your ...
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The Emerald Ash Borer is an enemy to forests in half of the United States. First appearing in Canada and ...
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One of the world's most invasive plants, Japanese knotweed was introduced to New England from Asia as an ornamental plant ...
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HVA's Dennis Regan was cited in this great summary of the recent EPA rulings: It took the nation's top environmental ...
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TriCorner News published the below editorial about the grant HVA received to develop a watershed management plan for the Ten ...
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HVA's Tim Abbott was a featured speaker in Roxbury's grant program. Tim descibed the geology of the Roxbury area, the ...
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Funds will protect local waters and lands, and support HVA education programs Cornwall Consolidated School (CCS) Principal Michael Croft and ...
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Thanks to YOU, our friends and supporters, HVA's annual auction (held on December 3, 2017) was another huge success! We'd ...
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A team of Danbury-area young environmentalists joined forces with volunteers to complete the landscaping and planting around a new canoe ...
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Volunteers in the upper watershed have been busy this summer with an invasive plant removal project. The effort is made ...
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Celebrating the official opening of the Young’s Field Riverfront Trail on June 17, the second phase of the New Milford ...
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Artist Jim Schantz has organized an art exhibition for this summer to honor the Housatonic. The exhibit is located in the ...
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“Fore the Rivers” Golf Tourney Supports HVA Environmental Efforts throughout the Housatonic Region SOUTHBURY, CT – June 12, 2017. Even ...
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