Study: Grand Haven’s street trees’ total worth $3.46M

A recent study for the city of Grand Haven has shed new light on the state of the more than 5,000 trees lining the community’s streets. According to the study, 62 percent of the trees in Grand Haven are maple, with the remaining 38 percent made up of other tree types. read more

Grow your own mushrooms for flavor and savings

THESE DAYS, with all the emphasis on eating fresh and local, it's not unusual for neighbors in and out of the city to take a stab at keeping bees or collecting eggs from their own free-range yard hens.

Gardener: Focus on foliage

We're all familiar with gardens designed around flowers. But a landscape with only flowers can really be lacking. Don't get me wrong. I'm crazy about flowers. But if I had only one small area to plant, I'd use flowers as accents and concentrate on foliage as the major elements of the design.

Downtown Art Walk & Taste of Chocolate set for Saturday

Whether it’s coming from an artist’s palette or tickling the taste buds of your own, you can find more than one kind of aesthetically pleasing experience in downtown Craig this weekend. Businesses along Yampa Avenue will play host to the annual Art Walk & Taste of Chocolate on Saturday. From 5 to 8 p.m., residents can view and taste works of all types, be they on canvas or a baking sheet ...

Committee seeks $10K to plant more trees

NEWBURYPORT — There are no grainy black-and-white Wanted posters of the Norway maple posted around town, but perhaps there should be. The once popular — but now discredited — tree is responsible for causing sidewalks to buckle.