Mary Esch, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Susan Iannuzzi, left and Linda Marzell of Binghamton, N.Y., clear a sidewalk after a heavy snowfall on street in Binghamton, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Binghamton Airport reported 39.1 inches of snow and another spot in Binghamton reported 41.0 inches, according to the National Weather Service. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Snow blankets Northeast

by Mary Esch Associated PressDecember 17, 2020

GLENVILLE, N.Y. — The Northeast’s first whopper snowstorm of the season buried parts of upstate New York under more than 3 feet of snow, broke records in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and left snowplow drivers struggling to clear the roads.“It was a…

This 2020 electron microscope made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention image shows the spherical coronavirus particles from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. On Monday, May 4, 2020, New York City health authorities issued an alert to doctors about severe inflammatory condition possibly linked with COVID-19 has been found in a cluster of U.S. children in New York City after first being reported in Europe. On Wednesday, New York said 64 potential cases had been...

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NY reports 100 children with rare illness

by Mary Esch Associated PressMay 12, 2020

FILE - This Feb. 28, 2017, file photo shows Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, N.Y. The 1,020-megawatt Unit 2 reactor at the Indian Point Energy Center along the Hudson River will close for good Thursday, April 30, 2020 and 1,040-megawatt Unit 3 will close in April 2021, as part of a deal reached in January 2017 between Entergy Corp., the state of New York and the environmental group Riverkeeper. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Indian Point nuke plant shutting down

by Mary Esch Associated PressApril 29, 2020

FILE - In this April 5, 2016 file photo, a man carries a sign before a rally opposing the Constitution Pipeline outside the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y. The nearly $1 billion Constitution Pipeline project that was designed to bring natural gas from Pennsylvania's shale gas fields to metropolitan New York and New England has been abandoned after years of legal regulatory challenges made it economically unfeasible, according to a statement Monday from a spokeswoman for project partner...

Costs, delays scuttle 124-mile Constitution Pipeline project

by Mary Esch Associated PressFebruary 24, 2020

Edisa Weeks gives her 5-year-old nephew, Niko Brown, a push down a hill at the Brattleboro Little League Field, in Brattleboro, Vt., on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019. A final wallop of a seemingly endless winter storm that impacted most of the country over the long holiday weekend is bearing down on the East, dumping heavy snow, shuttering schools and stymieing travel in the region Monday. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

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Schools close as long-lived storm clobbers East

by Mary Esch Associated PressDecember 2, 2019

In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, photo, Ben Harvey, an owner at EL Harvey & Sons, a waste and recycling company, poses on bundles of residential mixed fiber, comprised of a variety of paper and cardboard, in Westborough, Mass. The company is currently stacking and holding onto about 2,500 tons of the material, which is awaiting a destination where a recycler will process the bundles. Recycling programs across the United States are shutting down or scaling back because of a global market crisis blamed on contamination at the curbside bin. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Market forces put America’s recycling industry in the dumps

by Mary Esch Associated PressOctober 11, 2018

In this Thursday, Sept. 6 photo, Ben Harvey, an owner at EL Harvey & Sons, a waste and recycling company, poses on bundles of residential mixed fiber, comprised of a variety of paper and cardboard, in Westborough. The company is currently stacking and holding onto about 2,500 tons of the material, which is awaiting a destination where a recycler will process the bundles.

Market forces put America’s recycling industry in the dumps

by Mary Esch Associated PressOctober 10, 2018

A southern pine beetle is shown completing its metamorphosis into an adult that will attack a pine tree, at Kisatchie National Forest, in Pineville, La., Sept. 20, 2013.

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Pine-killing beetle munching its way north

by Mary Esch Associated PressJune 10, 2018

This photo provided by Richard Taras shows Jacobe Taras during a family spring break vacation in Florida several days before he committed suicide over school bullying back home in Moreau, N.Y. Jacob's parents are lobbying for a state law that would require schools to notify parents when their child is being bullied. It's called "Jacobe's Law." (Richard Taras via AP)

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Classrooms: Should schools be required to tell parents about bullying?

by Mary Esch Associated PressMarch 20, 2018

In this Nov. 18, 2017, photo, a section of the Tappan Zee Bridge is lowered by floating crane onto a barge on the east end of the bridge, in Tarrytown, N.Y. More than a hundred 50-foot long deck panels, already removed from the sections during the ongoing demolition, will be repurposed for use on bridges in several state and local municipalities.

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Pieces of mighty Tappan Zee to get new life in rural towns

by Mary Esch Associated PressNovember 19, 2017