The rain held off for about an hour Saturday morning as Michael and Allison Riese slowly motored across Goose Pond in Canaan, binoculars in hand, looking for the white bellies of loons. As the couple ...

If you could choose, would you rather be known as a “great diver” or a “common loon?” One name sounds pretty great, while the other sounds, well, loony. That’s the dilemma the most common loon of ...