Animals: First Place - "Elephant" - Gene Covey

BY MATT SCHOOLEYWith a group of seventh-graders presenting in front of State House members, it wasn’t the students who were nervous. “I was shaking like a leaf the entire time,” said Lurgio seventh-grade teacher Jen Wells. “They were much more calm and relaxed and I was very nervous. I wasn’t even presenting, but I ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS Fifteen cats found living in a storage bin along with a live artillery shell on Monday, Oct. 6, are recuperating at the municipal animal shelter shared with the Salem Animal Rescue League. Ray Denis, SARL director of development and shelter operations, said the town would retain control of the felines until ...

BY PATRICK O’NEILLWhen Kaitlyn Stone was looking for something to do this summer, spending a week in Mexico at a pet clinic was probably the last thing to cross her mind. But after helping spay and neuter almost 200 pets and learning about issues of animal treatment and euthanasia, she now wouldn’t trade the experience for anything ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS Residents of Brady Avenue again challenged a plan by the Salem Animal Rescue League to construct a new animal shelter in their neighborhood. Raising concerns over traffic, noise, animal waste and odor, potential neighbors of the 15,000-square-foot shelter lined up at the Tuesday, June 24, Planning Board meeting to ...

BY TOBY HENRYA High Street couple, horrified after a coyote attack on one of their sheep, said the run-in with the canine was the only predator attack they’ve had in more than 30 years of raising animals. “It was terrible,” said Francis Huard. “There was no way to save (the sheep), really. We’ve seen coyotes out back ...

Diesel at 8 weeks old playing outside on a fall day

An Eastern Chipmunk coming from its winter sleep and waiting for springtime in the cold weather of Northern NH, with the much snow of 2008 covering the ground.  This small one could not find much food, thus soon went back underground and only came back out a few weeks later when snow coverage was less.

Red squirrel on the hunt for bird seed.

A hawk in my yard in the fall of 2007.