The Hanover Co-op Food Stores have earned top recognition from the Environmental Protection Agency for its work reducing refrigerant emissions. Among the 10,800 GreenChill Partnership grocery stores in the United States, the Hanover Co-op has recorded the greatest improved emissions since joining the partnership (82.9% reduction since 2011), as well as the most improved emission rate from the previous year (a 77.4% reduction from 2015 to 2016). (Photograph courtesy of the Hanover Co-op Food Stores)
Brad Berrio, of Brownsville, Vt., welds the rails near vacuum tumblers used for meat on Sept. 26, 2017, at the new North Country Smokehouse location at Syd Clarke Park in Claremont, N.H. The tumblers can hold 10,000 pounds of meat in each barrel and are used to marinate the meats. (Valley News – Charles Hatcher) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
