I was having breakfast with colleague Cindy Wojdyla Cain at Jitter’s last week. As often happens, we got talking about the “good old days” at…
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It would be so much easier if wildlife read all the information printed about them, wouldn’t it? But we just can’t fool Mother Nature. So,…
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There isn’t a website, garden magazine or gardening book that doesn’t say, “contact your local Extension service to have your soil tested.” This gardening advice…
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By Sandy Vasko When we left the 39th, it was New Year’s Eve 1861. Battle came to them on the wings of the new year.…
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I have been selling hay and straw to hundreds, if not thousands, of customers in the last 40 years. I wish I had written down…
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By Sandy Vasko I suppose that when you think of excitement and crime, Florence Township does not spring to your mind. It’s true that it…
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I know we all have the itch — no, I am not talking about that winter dry skin, but the itch for gardening. Once the…
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Sports fans, especially those around for a while in Chicago, know by now Bobby Hull died. He was an icon in Chicago during the 1960s,…
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