The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department issued a reminder for the furbearer hunting season, which opened on Sept. 1 in New Hampshire for some species, according to a press release at nhfishgame.com. “Furbearers with a hunting season include coyote, fisher, raccoon, red fox, gray fox, opossum, mink, weasel, skunk, and muskrat. Registration is now required only for furbearers taken by hunting and does not include animals taken by trapping, Wildlife Control Operators, or any other means of take,” the release said. The seasons for red and gray fox, opossum, skunk and racoon opened Sept. 1 and coyotes may be hunted year-round. The hunting season for other animals opens in October or early November and the fisher hunting season opens Dec. 1, the website said. See eregulations.com/newhampshire/hunting and wildlife.nh.gov/hunting-nh/furbearer.
Musicians help out
Musicians for Meals, a benefit concert for Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County, will be held Saturday, Sept. 13, noon to 10 p.m., at Riley’s Place in Milford, according to a press release. Bands slated to appear include Granite Sunset, Creosote, Acoustic Beatles, Unnamed Trio, Violet Tendencies, ZeppHalen, Hot Velvet and Stone Hill Station, the release said. The event is free to attend with donations encouraged and the day featuring raffles as well as food available for purchase from Riley’s, the release said. See hcmow.org.
Break-ins
Manchester’s West Side saw break-ins to vehicles parked on at least 15 different streets between Aug. 4 and Aug. 26, according to an Aug. 26 press release from the Manchester Police. Items were taken from cars, some of which were unlocked, with most incidents occurring during the early morning hours, the release said. “During the course of the investigation, detectives also learned that security cameras in the affected neighborhoods were tampered with,” according to the release. Streets involved include Montgomery, Dubuque, Cleveland, Blodget, Amory, McGregor, Rimmon, Bremer, Putnam, Kelley, Boynton, Youville, Cartier, Alsace and Amory Court, release said. Police are asking residents in these areas to review any home surveillance footage for suspicious activity, such as individuals looking into vehicles or entering private property during the timeframe mentioned. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Manchester Police Department at 668-8711; Detective Amber Sosa-Aquino at 792-5513 or the anonymous Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040, the release said.
The Dover Public Library, at the McConnell Center, 32 St. Thomas St. in Dover, will hold a program about green burial practices and death doulas with Sarah Clark of Lotus and Lavender Natural Burial on Monday, Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m., according to a library press release. The event is free.
The Derry Public Library will hold a Zoom program about Joan Chen, an actress whose work includes 2025’s The Wedding Banquet and 2024’s Didi as well as 1987’s The Last Emperor and the TV show Twin Peaks. Sign up at derrypl.org for the program on Monday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 p.m.
The Nashua Historical Society will hold an “Old Souls of the Old South Cemetery Tour” on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., featuring costumed reenactors portraying real colonial and Revolutionary War-era figures who are buried in the city’s oldest burial ground at 217 DW Highway in Nashua, according to a press release. The tour also includes a visit to the 1841 Suburban Red Brick Schoolhouse No. 1, the release said. The event is recommended for ages 10+ and tickets cost $20 per person, plus fees, at nashuahistoricalsociety.org/event-list.
It’s fry season — wait, we mean, fair, it’s fair season, though maybe fry was also correct? In this week’s cover story, John Fladd looks at the delicious, often fried, frequently decadent eats that are a key part of attending late summer and fall fairs — such as the Hopkinton State Fair, which runs this Thursday, April 28, through Monday, Sept. 1 (see more details about that on page 8). Photo above and on the cover is from Danielle Calkins of the apple crisp from Pat’s Apple Crisp & Cider Donuts.
Also on the cover: Michael Witthaus talks with Parmalee in advance of the band’s show at the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College on Friday (see page 22). John Fladd finds out about mushroom camp (page 16). Hopefully your weekend stretches to Monday — we’ve got all kinds of music to fill your weekend: Concert listings (page 26), the Music This Week listings of bands at area breweries and restaurants (page 23) and even the concerts that blend storytelling, musical traditions and classical music touches at Avaloch Farm Music Institute (page 12) running Friday through Sunday this weekend.
The Exeter UFO Festival returns to downtown Exeter with events Saturday, Aug. 30, and Sunday, Aug. 31, according to exeterufofestival.org. The event features a speaker series that runs both days on a variety of UFO and alien topics, closing with a panel discussion of the speakers on Sunday at 4 p.m. (see the website for a full listing of talks and participating speakers). The UFO-curious can also check out Exeter Incident Site Trolley rides (running Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; rides are half-hour long and go to the site of the “Incident at Exeter in Kensington”) and historic videos shown continuously from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the website said.
For those more interested in the fest fun, Saturday will feature the Exeter Police and Fire departments selling their patches (the police patch benefits Maple, the department’s comfort dog), an alien costume contest at noon with parade on the sidewalk near Town Hall Common Park, an alien pet contest also at noon at the park, a dance party with Johnny B at the park after the parade, and a jazz piano concert with Eric Mintel on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Congregational Church (21 Front St.; free), the website said.
On Saturday and Sunday, check out the UFO Festival souvenir shop from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; food and drink sales from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and kids’ activities such as lawn games, face painting, UFO crash site creations, gifts and kid refreshments, the website said.
See SEE
The SEE Science Center, 200 Bedford St. in Manchester, see-sciencecenter.org, is open through Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 1) — weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and weekends 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center will then close Sept. 2 through Sept. 5 for annual renovations and reopen Saturday, Sept. 6, with school year hours when the center is closed most Mondays (except for some school vacation holidays), according to an email from SEE. The center also begins a program of offering sensory-friendly and immunocompromised-friendly sessions with the first sensory session on Sept. 7 and the first immunocompromised session on Oct. 5; registration for these days will open a month in advance, the email said.
Theme of most fair foods is indulgence. Fair food is supposed to be deep-fried or covered in powdered sugar. Here’s a look at some of the dishes you might encounter on this season’s midways.
Apple Crisp
Pat’s Apple Crisp and Cider Donuts (patsapplecrisp.com)
Find them at this fair: Hopkinton State Fair, Deerfield Fair
Danielle Calkins’ family has been selling fair food for a long time.
“My dad and my mother started this business back in 1984,” she said. “We’ve been in business over 40 years. … They just started with the fair circuits like Topfield, Deerfield, Hopkinton, Rochester. Now, we do fall festivals and things like that, but we’re also now a mobile food truck business so we do private events as well. The cider doughnuts have been part of the operation for about 18 years out of those 40. My father passed away in 2010 and so my brother and I took over the business. My mom is still involved. She’s Pat.”
In classic fair food tradition Pat’s makes two foods, makes them extremely well, and tries to keep up with demand on fair weekends. Calkins said apple crisp is, for her, the quintessential New England fair food.
“I definitely think it’s just that feeling that New Englanders have at that turn of the fall season,” she said. “When we start to feel those leaves change and it starts to get a little cooler in the air, I just feel like people, New Englanders specifically, they just crave the sweaters and the scarves. You watch people at the fair, right? People are kind of bundled up in the evenings. It’s a little chilly. They want something hot and they want something that is homemade that they know.”
Calkins said while fresh hot doughnuts sell more at fairs, apple crisp has a special place in her heart.
“Just because it’s that mixture between French vanilla and when it melts a little bit into the crisp and the apples, it’s something special. I just think that everything kind of aligns for that Deerfield Fair weekend at the end of September. The apples are at peak, peak perfection at that time, just before October hits, and it’s probably about 50 degrees outside; it’s the best.”
Calkins and her family are traditionalists. They stick with McIntosh apples from one particular local orchard for their crisp.
”It’s completely dependable and it cooks well without becoming mush,” she said.
Extremely Large Doughnuts
Betsy’s Country Fair Donuts (facebook.com/betsysdonuts)
Find them at this fair: Hopkinton State Fair, Deerfield Fair, Sandwich State Fair
Cider doughnuts might be traditional, but enormous frosted doughnuts the size of hubcaps are the indulgence of choice for many younger fair-goers. Fully mature couples might need to split one between themselves.
Jamie Cross is the owner of Betsy’s Country Fair Donuts.
“We’ve been doing jumbo doughnuts at New Hampshire State Fairs since my grandfather started it in 1965,” he said. “We are third and fourth generation at the moment.”
Cross said his stand sells five varieties of doughnut, all of which are yeasted and leavened.
“We do five different varieties of jumbo doughnuts,” he said. “We do maple-frosted, chocolate-frosted, cinnamon-sugared, regular-sugared, and honey-dipped. Chocolate-frosted are usually the most popular in Hopkinton, honey-dipped in Deerfield, and usually maple-frosted up in Sandwich.” These are big doughnuts. “Ours are 8 inches across,” he said.
The doughnuts sell too quickly to keep track of, Cross said.
Betsy’s Country Fair Donuts. Courtesy Jamie Cross.
“As far as actual doughnuts, we don’t actually count. We usually measure by 50-pound bags of flour is how we usually count the day. And I think the best Deerfield Fair we ever had was probably 10 50-pound bags of flour, so 500 pounds of flour in a day. A Deerfield Saturday is usually the busiest day of any of the fairs.”
To be ready for the midway, the dry ingredients for Cross’ doughnuts are mixed off-site. “We mix dried powdered whole eggs, powdered milk, our shortenings, sugars and flavors. We’ll mix that in a batch. So we call it our base. So we have buckets of that. When we are at the fair, we only have to measure out a certain amount of base, water and yeast, and then you put the flour in until the dough feels a certain way. Then you let it rise, cut it, let it rise again, and then fry it. And then you dress them all up. They’re all the same doughnut, they’re just dressed differently.”
Cross notes that, surprisingly, frosted doughnuts are not at their best right out of the fryer.
“The perfect doughnut is like 15 minutes out of the fryer,” he advised. “They need to set a little bit. You don’t want them to be too hot when you add the toppings. … You don’t want them running all down your shirt. A lot of people are like, ‘Oh, do you have a hot honey-dipped?’ I’m like, ‘I do, and if that’s what you want, you can wear it; that’s fine.’
Gluten-Free Fair Food
No Pain, No Grain
Find them at this fair: Hillsborough County Fair, Deerfield Fair
Tenley Pello developed celiac disease as an adult, but she grew up loving fair food. According to her the most unfair thing about her situation is that she was able to develop a passion for wheaty, starchy foods before her body decided she couldn’t eat them.
“So I went from knowing how good fair food is to not being able to eat it,” she said. After some consideration, she realized that that feeling of injustice was also an opportunity.
“The way I kind of look at it,” she said, “is when I go to a fair I don’t want a smoothie, I don’t want to go and get a rice bowl, I don’t want a healthy option, I want typical fair junk food — and I couldn’t eat that anymore. So I wanted to kind of bring back enjoyable fair food to people who don’t really have options. Because even when you go to places that have gluten-free foods, there can still be cross-contamination; they might use the same fryer for everything, or forget to wipe a counter down.”
The thing to keep in mind, Pello said, is that “gluten-free” does not mean “healthy.” The whole principle of fair food, she said, is to be able to provide greasy, carby, indulgent food.
“Every event we work at, we sell something different,” she said. “Our fried dough definitely took us a couple of attempts to get right. We finally found a recipe that we really, really like and we settled on. A lot of people tell us that they’ve missed it, that they haven’t been able to have fried dough since they were kids.”
Pello said anything she fries is popular on the fairgrounds.
“Our Fry Bowls [huge servings of loaded french fries] seem to sell the most,” she said, “but our chicken tenders are really great …” Most of the dishes on the No Pain menu at any given event are built on a foundation of French fries. A Chicken Parm Bowl, for instance, starts with garlic-parmesan fries, topped with chicken tender bites, marinara sauce, and more parmesan cheese. Other bowls might be topped with pulled pork, Buffalo chicken, or a classic fair combination of grilled sausage, peppers, and onions. Pello said that she is particularly proud of the chicken tenders she has been able to source, which find their way into more than half of her inventions. “We’ve managed to find a distributor who can get us the best of the best,” she said. They are incredibly high-quality, and they’re halal. It is definitely a comfort food.”
Maple Cotton Candy
Ben’s Sugar Shack (bensmaplesyrup.com)
There is probably no fair food more iconic than cotton candy.
The New Hampshire twist on cotton candy is to make it out of maple sugar. Ben Fisk is the owner of Ben’s Sugar Shack.
“I’ve been making maple cotton candy at the fair since I was 15 years old,” he said. “It’s just a pure maple flavor.”
The way a cotton candy machine works, Fisk said, is that it melts sugar and spins it very quickly.
“There are heating elements in there and it just melts the sugar out there and spins it out. [The sugar] comes out into the air as a liquid and when it hits the cooler air is when it turns into the sugar fibers.” In Fisk’s experience, it’s children who like traditional bright colors. “But definitely, more adults eat the maple cotton candy,” he said. Because, in the end, maple cotton candy has such a pure maple flavor, the maple sugar can come from many different batches of syrup. “It varies, it can be dark,” he said, “but usually a dark to amber rich syrup is really good for making maple sugar.”
Smoked Turkey Legs
Michael Raffalo has seen smoked turkey legs evolve as a fair food staple over the years.
“I started doing turkey legs [at fairs] around 1996,” he remembered. They seem to have started as a niche food at renaissance fairs, and took a while to develop a following. “They weren’t popular in the beginning as they are now at a fair, but I believe most fair foods that are popping off are because of the food channels, you know, Carnival Eats, several shows like that on TV. Sausage has been a staple since before I was born. Popcorn, cotton candy, that type of thing, fried dough. But now, with these shows, people are frying everything — this and that. But the turkey legs have come around, and I’ve stayed with it through all these years.”
Raffalo and his family live in Florida but work the fair circuit throughout the summer and fall. The Deerfield Fair is an important event on his family’s calendar.
Smoked turkey legs. Courtesy photo from Michael Raffalo.
“Deerfield’s a big staple,” he said, “and it’s a family affair. This year I believe is our 60th year at that fair. It’s now turned over to my son. I’m still here a little bit to help along, but the next generation is coming along now. He’s the fourth generation on his mother’s side; it’s the same business, but he’s third generation on his father’s side. He’s a good boy.”
The turkey legs themselves are straightforward, Raffalo said.
“They are turkey. It’s just smoking and it’s an easy preparation. That’s the one good thing about them. You don’t need bread, you don’t need peppers, onions, all that. It’s just boom, here’s your meat. It’s meat on a stick.We’re into smokers, we’re into picking up wood, making sure it’s the right wood. You can just use oak, it’s fine, but if you want a little sweeter taste to the leg — I mean, it’s just like a barbecue process.”
Raffalo said that while many turkey leg vendors fry their turkey legs he and his family are committed to cooking theirs in a smoker, which requires organization and planning.
“If we were in a hurry we could get a batch out quickly in three hours for production,” he said, “But we let them go a little longer if we have time.”
A turkey leg is bigger than most first-timers expect, Raffalo said.
“They roughly range from 18 ounces to 36 ounces. Some of the legs in a box are twice the size of others, but they are all no less than 18 ounces. If you’re going to call it ‘jumbo,’ we want it to be 18 ounces or more. [A turkey leg] is a walk-around-with-a-hunk-of-meat-in-your-hand meal in itself. It’s just a big old hunk of meat and deliciousness. The flavor’s simple — simple smoke. [Customers] love it.’
Deep-Fried Oreos
Brothers Concessions
Find them at this fair: Hopkinton State Fair, Deerfield Fair
If New England fair food has a specialty, it’s almost anything deep-fried. Fried dough springs to mind immediately, of course, and then there are french fries, cottage fries, curly fries, spiral fries, corn dogs, fried clams, even fried ice cream. But the quintessential decadent fried fair food has to be the fried Oreo.
Matt Reed is one of the owners of Brothers Concessions, which specializes in fried foods.
Fried Oreos from Brothers Concessions. Courtesy photo from John Lindsey.
“Fried Oreos started in about 2002,” he remembered. “I think we started doing fried Oreos in 2003. My brother and I started as soon as I got out of high school. We started with fried Twinkies, fried candy bars and funnel cakes. And then the following year we added a couple other items, but an Oreo was the biggest one that we added. It’s been one of the long-term stays that we’ve had.”
Reed said that timing is everything when it comes to eating a fried Oreo.
“You really need to let them cool a little bit,” he advised. “You’ll burn your tongue if you don’t, but they are best fresh. If you let them sit and kind of sit for too long — half an hour or so — they’ll go stale. I do know several people who have told me that they were taking them home and reheating them in the oven, but for the most part hot and fresh is the way to go.”\
The secret to a good fried Oreo is to not cheap out, Reed said.
“When we first started doing it, when we were getting our original trailer ready, we had neighborhood kids come over to try out different things. And we had done Oreos, just regular … Oreos. And then we tried Double Stuf Oreos and they were so much better! Like so much better that we’ve always used Double Stuf Oreos for probably 23 years now. And I’ve never seen any other vendors do that. … The filling in an Oreo will kind of melt into the batter a little bit, so more is better.”
“With a Twinkie,” Reed continued, “the way we do it, it’s actually got a cool taste in the middle, but the outside is nice and warm. It’s kind of like a baked Alaska type of sensation. We do fried ice cream as well.” That has to be very cold when it goes into the hot oil, he said. The concept is to have different flavors, textures and temperatures in the same treat.
Reed has seen a growing acceptance of decadent fried fair food.
“When we first started doing it, it tended to be something for a young adult crowd,” he said. “But, you know, now, I have grandparents buying fried Oreos, fried cookies, fried candy bars. Early on, parents were not as excited about serving their kids fried desserts, but over time they’ve become more of a standard fair food. They’re everywhere now.”
Three upcoming fairs
Hopkinton State Fair Fairgrounds, 392 Kearsarge Ave., Contoocook Dates: Thursday, Aug. 28, through Monday, Sept. 1 Hours: Thursday 5 to 10 p.m., Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Monday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be livestock shows, a demolition derby, carnival rides, monster trucks, live entertainment, a farmers market, and a petting zoo. Expect stunt riders, horse-pulls and, of course, fair food. Visit hsfair.org.
Hillsborough County Fair New Boston 4-H Youth Center, 15 Hilldale Lane, New Boston Dates: Friday, Sept. 5, through Sunday, Sept. 7 Hours: Friday noon to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Expect livestock showing, ox-pulls, carnival rides, tractor-pulls, sheep-herding demonstrations, live music, fireworks and fair food. Visit hcafair.org.
Deerfield Fair Deerfield Fair Grounds, 34 Stage Road, Deerfield Dates: Thursday, Sept. 25, through Sunday, Sept. 28 Hours: Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Billing itself as “New England’s Oldest Family Fair,” the Deerfield Fair is a lot to take in. Expect horse and cattle pulls, a pig scramble, giant pumpkins, circus performers, live music, horticultural and dairy judging, sheep sheering, rides, dog shows, a women’s Fry Pan Toss, and, of course, an almost overwhelming amount of fair food. Visit deerfieldfair.com.
Featured Image: Apple crisp from Pat’s. Photo courtesy Danielle Calkins.
The Hopkinton State Fair starts today and runs through Monday, Sept. 1, at the fairgrounds, 392 Kearsarge Ave. in Contoocook. In addition to the midway with a selection of rides (see the list at hsfair.org), the fair will feature the Demolition Derby (Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m), Dialed Action Sports (Thursday at 6:30 p.m.), the New England Lawn Mower Racing Association (Friday 6 p.m.) and Dialed Action Sports BMX (various times Friday through Monday). The fair will also feature dog events such as Disc-Connected K9s (shows Thursday through Monday) and Dockdogs (daily) as well as live stock shows, pulling competitions, home arts and NH 4-H show and auction, the website said. Get juggling and magic performances daily on the Country Porch Stage and find live music on The Ag Stage including Linda Nelson (Thursday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m), Dan Morgan (times Friday through Monday), April Cushman (Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) and Brad Myrick (Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.), the website said. Fair hours are 5 to 10 p.m. today; 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday. Buy admission passes, admission and ride mega passes and special show tickets through the website.
Thursday, Aug. 28
The New Hampshire Fisher Cats will play Game 3 of a six-game home series against the Erie SeaWolves tonight at 6:35 p.m. at Delta Dental Stadium (1 Line Drive, Manchester, 641-2005, milb.com/new-hampshire). Come early for a Space Potatoes Koozie Giveaway. Tickets start at $17. Games continue Friday and Saturday (when the team plays at the Space Potatoes and there is a Space Potato socks giveaway) nights at 6:35 p.m. and Sunday at 1:35 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 28
Post-grunge rock band Creed takes the stage at the SNHU Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester, 644-5000, snhuarena.com) tonight at 7 p.m. with special guests Daughtry and Mammoth will open. Tickets start at $49.
Saturday, Aug. 30
Cruising Downtown returns to downtown Manchester today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., organized by the Rotary Club of Manchester. The day will feature cars on display, along with food, local vendors and live music with Off Duty Angels, Linda Lane Band, Speed Trap and Permanent Vacation, according to the club’s Facebook page. See cruisingdowntownmanchester.com.
Saturday, Aug. 30
Today is the Clear the Shelter Finale at Pope Memorial SPCA of Concord Merrimack County (94 Silk Farm Road, Concord, 856-8756, pmspca.org) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with a 50 percent off pet adoption fees for adult pets.
Sunday, Aug. 31
Temple Mountain plays an afternoon solo set today at 3 p.m. at Contoocook Cider Co. in Contoocook. The Peterborough-based singer-guitarist mixes originals with fun covers. Sunday, Aug. 31, 3 p.m., Contoocook Cider Co., 656 Gould Hill Road, Contoocook, templemountainmusic.com.
Save the Date! Friday, Sept. 19 The annual celebration of Scottish culture, music, food and sports returns to Loon Mountain Resort in Lincoln. The annual New Hampshire Highland Games & Festival will take place Friday, Sept. 19, through Sunday, Sept. 21, according to nhscot.org. See events such as stone lifting and caber toss, historical reenactments of life in the Highlands, “Try It” classes, kids’ events and more. Purchase tickets for a single day or the weekend on the website along with tickets for special musical performances and food events, such as the Cape Breton dinner and whisky master classes.
Manchester’s most recent police horse has a name. As reported by WMUR in an Aug. 21 online article, there was an online contest earlier in August to find a name for the Mounted Patrol’s 6-year-old equine officer and voters picked Titan.
QOL score: +1
Comment:Titan is the equine officer’s working name; his official registered name is Tally Ho Alphie’s Fritzmon.
Back to school, looking sharp
For many families, back-to-school shopping puts a strain on already strained budgets. This year, local businesses and organizations have stepped up to lend a hand. As reported by WMUR in an Aug. 24 online article, for the third year, Get Faded Barbershop (282 W. Hancock St., Manchester, 628-2867, getfadedbarbershop.com) organized a back-to-school event to provide returning students with free haircuts, braiding and other services. School supplies were also given away. Meanwhile, for the 30th year, the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter (2 Quincy St., Nashua, 889-7770, nsks.org) held its annual Backpacks for Back-to-School program last week. As reported by Nashua InkLink in an Aug. 24 article, “Each backpack is loaded with age-appropriate school supplies”
QOL score: +1
Comment:According to the InkLink story, the NSKaS distributed 1,600 backpacks this year, and 42,000 since 1995.
Nature in Nashua
As part of this year’s City Nature Challenge (citynaturechallenge.org), communities across New Hampshire took time out to count how many species of wildlife they could find, and register them on a smart-phone app. According to an Aug. 15 article on Nashua InkLink, the Challenge “is a bioblitz-style competition where cities embark to find and document the most observations of plants and wildlife in their city.” This year, the article continued, Nashua residents found the most species: “405 observations of 184 species, such as staghorn sumac, American toads, blue herons and barred owls,” the InkLink article read.
QOL score: +1
Comment:See citynaturechallenge.org for information about 2026.
Last week’s QOL score: 63
Net change:+3
QOL this week: 66
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