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River Advocates Organize Annual Cleanup, Call For Stopping Trash At The Source

WAMC

Volunteers will fan out along the length of the Connecticut River in New England over the next two days September 28th and 29th to collect tons of trash.

This is the 22nd annual “Source to Sea Cleanup” organized by the Connecticut River Conservancy.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Angela Chaffee, Outreach and Events Director for the CRC.

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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