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June 2008 Archives


Gardening lessons by Shank's mare

4:50 PM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

I’ve been walking to work recently, to save gas and stop contributing to air quality problems. And mostly because I just don’t live that far, and in nice weather it’s a pleasant walk. You notice a lot more when you......

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Traditions can reach a new level if you record them

8:31 AM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | | Comments (4)
By Beth Heaney    Email

Yesterday as I was leaving the house, an alarm went off in my head. It's almost my birthday and that means the strawberry fields await. My sister and I had planned to go out for dinner, but I cancelled at......

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Projo blogs upgrade set for Saturday

7:00 AM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Saturday morning we plan to upgrade the active projo blogs to a new version of the Movable Type software. All blogs will remain available during this process. Afterwards you’ll see a new look and some new features, and we’ll welcome......

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The great scape comeback: Eat that

4:56 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | | Comments (4)
By Paula Constantine    Email

Last weekend, something happened at the farmers market. I saw something so shocking, so foot-plantingly disturbing I was frozen. Once I’d seen it, it was clear I had to make a decision. But What. To. Do. What I did do......

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Pansies, after a rescue mission

4:03 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pat Feinstein    Email

My next door neighbor offered me all of her moribund pansies. They were once grown in small containers, placed on her front steps and front porch. I said, “ No, but thank you anyhow”. A week later I found......

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Meyers wins big race at Newport Regatta

8:41 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Peter Phipps    Email

Dan Meyers at the helm of Numbers -- Dan Nerney photo Anticipation ran high throughout the New York Yacht Club's 154th Annual Regatta presented by Rolex, in Newport over the weekend. "Competitors, designers, journalists and spectators alike were anxious......

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Gardening: Take it under water

11:02 AM Wed, Jun 11, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

It’s going to be a hot one. You could go to the beach. Fight beach traffic, walk across a giant parking lot with 100 pounds of gear, scald your feet on hot sand, have some kid shake their towel out......

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Anthurium -- flower for celebration

9:59 PM Fri, Jun 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pat Feinstein    Email

I could not help thinking about flowers for celebration again, as today happened to my No.2 son’s birthday. We celebrated his 13th birthday at the Biltmore Hotel in June 1982. By then, we had made several trips to Hawaii......

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Hope High Farmers Market returns

5:53 PM Fri, Jun 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

It’s so sad. All winter, Hope High School is –– just a school. (I mean, not that that's not important and everything. But on the "all about me-ter" it doesn't exactly send the needle into the red zone.) But tomorrow,......

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Garden 2008, a la my grocery store cashier

3:42 PM Wed, Jun 04, 2008 | | Comments (5)
By Beth Heaney    Email

I ran across a friendly cashier one day at the grocery store and I happened to blurt to her in conversation that I was not in the mood to till my garden for spring planting. She was thrilled to be......

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