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Jan 17, 2025 | 
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Daguerreotype of the poet Emily Dickinson, taken circa 1848.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
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E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Amherst officials have repeatedly ignored their duty to comply with the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and Section 106, a federal regulation meant to prevent “adverse effects” to historic buildings to the fullest extent possible.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
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E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles A roadside aster bursts out of a roadside tree stump, a testament to nature’s striking vitality.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
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E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Asters are members of the daisy family (Asteraceae), along with dahlias, marigolds and sunflowers. The two most common types of asters in our area are the New England aster and the New York aster.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
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Late summer isn’t a pretty time in the garden, at least not in my garden. The recent mini-drought has bleached out what passes for lawn, several large hydrangeas are drooping as they beg me for water, the daylily borders are shriveled and brown. Hostas give new meaning to the phrase “slug fest.” But as I surveyed the perennial beds around my house, I realized that they’re suffering from more than seasonal distress. They need some serious wrangling to get them under control.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
recorder.com | Mickey Rathbun
Late summer isn’t a pretty time in the garden, at least not in my garden. The recent mini-drought has bleached out what passes for lawn, several large hydrangeas are drooping as they beg me for water, the daylily borders are shriveled and brown. Hostas give new meaning to the phrase “slug fest.” But as I surveyed the perennial beds around my house, I realized that they’re suffering from more than seasonal distress. They need some serious wrangling to get them under control.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
gazettenet.com | Mickey Rathbun
Late summer isn’t a pretty time in the garden, at least not in my garden. The recent mini-drought has bleached out what passes for lawn, several large hydrangeas are drooping as they beg me for water, the daylily borders are shriveled and brown. Hostas give new meaning to the phrase “slug fest.” But as I surveyed the perennial beds around my house, I realized that they’re suffering from more than seasonal distress. They need some serious wrangling to get them under control.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
amherstbulletin.com | Mickey Rathbun
It’s August and in my household that means one thing: local tomatoes. For much of the year, our grocery stores offer tomatoes tough enough to endure machine picking followed by days or weeks in cold storage. Even the more expensive, so-called “vine-ripened” ones, still attached to a desiccated bit of vine as proof of their provenance – are a whole lot prettier than they taste. But for the next month or so, we can feast on sweet, sun-kissed tomatoes plucked ripe from the vine. Really.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
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E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Botanically speaking, the tomato is a fruit, specifically, a berry, having hollow interior spaces filled with seeds and juice.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
gazettenet.com | Mickey Rathbun
Botanically speaking, the tomato is a fruit, specifically, a berry, having hollow interior spaces filled with seeds and juice. But legally, the tomato is a vegetable, according to an 1893 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that differentiated vegetables and fruits according to their use. It’s August and in my household that means one thing: local tomatoes.
