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Vol. 2 No. 12 • March 24th, 2010

Is the Conn. River on drugs? Are old prescriptions, personal care products and other pollutants flushed into the waste water system polluting the Connecticut River? ...Turn to page 7 to find out

Sports New book released about the late, local college coach Keith LeClair See page 19

Chester PD offers forensic expertise at GMUHS CHESTER — The evidence is in, as several Green Mountain Union High School science students recently witnessed a fascinating forensic demonstration conducted by officer Paul Larochelle of the Chester Police Department (pictured above). Originally a detective for the Springfield Police Department who specialized in child crimes and crime scene photography, Larochelle left this particularly intense field after four years to pursue careers in both photography and as a newspaper editor. “I was working as an officer for Springfield PD starting in 1981,” Larochelle said in a recent interview. “Four years later I got a chance to work with kids as a detective in juvenile services. The reality was though, that I worked with the adult offenders who hurt kids through sexual and physical child abuse. After a couple hundred cases over four years, I was burned out.” However, after some 20 years away from the field, Paul recently competed the police academy training program and is now a full time officer in the aforementioned Chester Police Department. And now gets to work with kids under much better circumstances. Turn to page 12 for all the evidence ...

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Ludlow .....................2-5 Londonderry ............... 6 Brattleboro .................. 7 Springfield ...............8-9 Think Spring ............. 11 Chester .................12-13 Rockingham .........14-15 A&E .....................17-18 Puzzle Page ............... 20 Classifieds ............21-23

Think Spring It is the time of year for planting and home Improvement See page 11

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The Outlook’s Robert Smith got these photos of the popular Harlow’s Sugar House on Route 5 in Putney, a big tourist attraction where the sap is almost always boiling and visitors can ride into the sugarbush on a horse drawn wagon to see how the sap is collected. Harlow’s is just one of many sugaring operations in the region. For a feature on Victor and JoAnn Jarvis’ Maple Knoll Farm in Springfield, turn to page 16. Inset photo at left by Mary Moeykens

Springfield’s 802 music empowers local music scene

Meet Dave Hinkley, a young entrepreneur and founder of 802 Music in Springfield, who is looking to shake up the local music scene...

Turn to page 17 for details

Springfield High School names student of month

Charlie Hunter is GFRCC “Person of the Year”

One the many new assignments from the Elks National fraternity was that all Lodges would install awards for local “Student of the Month” programs. The Springfield’s Elks recently named their first. Turn to page 8 to meet SHS senior Simret Ladd.

...Turn to page 14 for details

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