Hoosic River

I hope this serves as a wake-up call that PFAS should be number one on the agenda to protect public health here in the Commonwealth and to get rules and regulations passed to protect our public health.

The new report says PFAS was found in waterways across the state, from the Charles in Boston to the Hoosick River in western Massachusetts.

And that was Craig Lamote reporting.

One of the most endangered species in the northeastern U.S. is a turtle with a yellow neck.

The haystack monument doesn't appear on most maps, yet it commemorates an important event in Christian history, a prayer meeting that sparked the formation of the first official mission organization in the United States.

On a hot August afternoon in 1806, a group of five spiritually-minded students from the college met together in a grove of trees near the Hoosick River.

Their purpose was to discuss missionary William Carey's small booklet, An Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen, a controversial publication that put the responsibility of world evangelism on all believers.

The leader of the group was Samuel Mills, who laid out a radical idea, sending missionaries to distant lands with the gospel of Jesus Christ.