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Destructive grub infestations a hot topic at BDN Maine Bangor Garden Show and Spring Fling
BANGOR, Maine — About half of the people who stopped by the Quality Lawn Services booth — one of nearly 100 vendors at the BDN Maine Bangor Garden Show and Spring Fling — wanted to talk about lawn-devouring beetle larvae, known as grubs. “We’re kind of keeping our fingers crossed ...
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Owl stool workshop in Stonington
Bangor Daily News on March 22, 2013, at 3 p.m.
STONINGTON, Maine – Geoffrey Warner Studio will be offering Owl Stool Workshops every first and third Wednesday, June through September 2013. Participants will learn how to assemble and hand-finish an Owl Stool. Each daylong workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Stonington Studio. Participants should bring a lunch. ...
BDN announces 2013 events lineup, starting with Maine Garden Show
Bangor Daily News on March 21, 2013, at 9:59 a.m.
The Bangor Daily News has announced its 2013 lineup of BDN Maine events, which run the gamut from food and cooking to winter sports, to be held each month at locations in Bangor, Augusta and Portland. In press conferences held Thursday morning at Coespace in downtown Bangor and the Portland ...
US home prices rose for 9th straight month
By Richard Leong, Reuters on Dec. 26, 2012, at 8:28 p.m.
NEW YORK — U.S. single-family home prices rose in October for nine months in a row, reinforcing the view the domestic real estate market is improving and should bolster the economy in 2013, a closely watched survey showed on Wednesday. The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas gained ...
JANINE PINEO
Big storm brings down sentinel of seasons
When the wind and rain of Frankenstorm Sandy blew through in late October, I wasn’t as concerned as when we were hit with some of the crazy storms that had skittered across the state this year with their big gusts. We even had something scary blow through my town this ...
From farm to festival to table, Maine Harvest Festival celebrates local food
Judy Perkins still lives on her family farm in Bangor, near the Glenburn line. Perkins grew up on the farm, and she remembers delivering strawberries, corn and peas with her father to area stores when she was a child. Local food has always been important to her. “That was always ...
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Squash: Bringing party time to garden and plate
Back in the day when people ate rocks and twigs, someone noticed a viney thing with something attached that looked more appetizing than aforementioned rocks and twigs and ate it. I suspect that if they knew the name was squash, they might have kept gnawing on rocks and twigs. Seriously: ...
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Tasty tuber a feast for the eyes, too
Once upon a time, I did not know what that sunshine-yellow flower was that grew with abandon at my grandmother’s house. It was just “the yellow daisy” and I wanted some in my yard. For years, I’d watched them waving in the breeze, a daily occurrence given her location not ...
Wednesday Spinners to mark 35 great years at Common Ground Fair
on Sept. 17, 2012, at 2:54 p.m.
This year marks the 35th consecutive year that the Wednesday Spinners, a group of women from Down East Maine, have been spinning together at the Common Ground Fair. Now in their 37th year of meeting every Wednesday, September through May, at a different spinner’s home each week, the spinners — ...
Fairy gardens can bring magic to your yard
By Susan Smith-Durisek, Lexington Herald-Leader on Sept. 07, 2012, at 12:54 p.m.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — There is a sort of magic that happens in fairy gardens, those miniature landscapes meant to inspire tiny mythical creatures to visit your yard. Wilson Nurseries in Frankfort, Ky., regularly hosts fairy-garden workshops, where the air is often abuzz with an excited fluttering to and fro, as ...
Tips to transform trash to treasure
By Family Features on Aug. 02, 2012, at 10:21 a.m.
Have you ever beaten yourself up over a broken glass or a spill on your dining room chair? Life is full of “oops moments,” which is why Glad® ForceFlex® Black Bag has teamed up with the Picker Sisters – best friends and interior designers Tracy Hutson and Tanya McQueen ...
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Catching up, slowing down during a Maine farm visit
Chances are slim that I had ever been to Montville before Sunday. Which is sad because it’s only minutes outside of Belfast and is, quite frankly, beautiful country. I took advantage of Sunday’s perfect weather to participate in Open Farm Day, where Maine farms invite folks to stop in to ...
Vintage or new? Sorting through your furniture options
By Tim Butt, McClatchy Newspapers on July 24, 2012, at 2:25 p.m.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Today, we are experiencing a demand for the designs of mid-century American furniture, when America was in a period of design excellence and innovation, but the question of what to buy has become more confusing to the consumer. Can I buy an original? Should I buy ...
Green spaces get greener
By Lori Johnston, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on July 13, 2012, at 1:12 p.m.
ATLANTA — Whether you have a primary residence or vacation home, your personal green spaces can be updated with eco-friendly items. Here are six outdoor products with green qualities. Original Rainwater Pillow The Original Rainwater Pillow, created by Alpharetta, Ga., landscaper Jim Harrington, is an option for homeowners wanting to ...
Johnny’s Selected Seeds now owned by employees
ALBION, Maine — Johnny’s Selected Seeds announced that it will be a 100 percent employee-owned company. The company, which is provides seeds, tools, information and sales, will hold an event celebrating the move at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at its research farm in Albion. An employee stock ownership plan ...
Bates student gives up potential career as doctor to become family’s eighth generation of farmers
By Kathryn Skelton, Sun Journal on June 17, 2012, at 5:41 a.m.
POLAND, Maine — Tomi Chipman was sitting in an anthropology class at Bates College in Lewiston, on a premed track, and realized she would rather be out in the field with her dad. By last fall, she had made up her mind. When she graduates, Chipman wants to be a ...
Why it matters that ‘House Hunters’ is fake
By Marcelle Friedman, Slate on June 16, 2012, at 8:07 a.m.
From bait-and-switch marriage proposals to wig-pulling, cocktail-tossing catfights, it’s safe to say we’ve grown accustomed to absurd contrivance and scripting in “reality” television. But who would expect such dramatic puppet-mastering on HGTV? Apparently we all should have. Earlier this week on the website Hooked on Houses, former “House Hunters” participant ...
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
In 1979, the building at 26-28 Central St. in downtown Bangor housed a grocery store, owned by the Zoidis family. That year, the building burned to the ground, and after the charred remains were razed, the lot sat vacant for more than three decades. Businesses came and went around it. ...
Spring is made when Magnolia ‘Butterflies’ emerges
It was not much more than a twig when it arrived. But I had high hopes for it, envisioning lush blossoms on elegant branches. Sure, I read it was a slow grower. But really, what gardener ever believes that line? I will admit that it has been so many years ...
Transform the yard into a butterfly haven
In early spring, mourning cloaks entered the gardens of Charlotte Rhoades Park in Southwest Harbor. In search for tree sap, these large, dark butterflies, their wings edged with yellow and vibrant blue spots, wandered the dead plants and budding trees. A hibernating butterfly, it is one of the first to ...
Former Bangor YMCA building sold to new dental technology school
University of Maine hockey job has been offered to former assistant Red Gendron
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Bangor man charged with murder, escape from psychiatric hospital found not competent to stand trial
After 27 years, a father continues to search for his daughter, presumed dead
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Maine GOP disappoints on Medicaid
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Lawrence, Connolly help UMaine advance to America East baseball title game
Bucksport’s Cassidy Adams strikes out 19 in single game
Jonesport-Beals basketball standout Garet Beal named Parade All-American
Hampden’s Norris among three players heading to Husson men’s basketball program
Maine Democrats stooped to the governor’s level with TV complaint
Maine’s beer industry continues to brew double-digit growth
‘All That’ actress Amanda Bynes arrested after allegedly tossing bong out apartment window on 36th floor
Have a drink, kiss a fish: Just another Saturday night, Newfoundland-style
