Greg Krawczyk News Today

A dozen new apple varieties, apple blotch, and a family of barn owls that helps control voles in the orchard were some of the topics covered at Kauffmans Fruit Farm.

Nikoloz Meskhi, head of the Plant Protection Department at Georgia’s National Food Agency, is visiting Penn States Fruit Research and Extension Center on a Borlaug Fellowship.

Orchardists face tricky decisions on chemical thinning and insect management thanks to a late spring wave of cool weather.

Orchardists face tricky decisions on chemical thinning and insect management thanks to a late spring wave of cool weather.

The Hooper Island lighthouse, which rises from the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, has been purchased by a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, contractor.

To call it a fixer-upper would be generous. There's no running water, no heat, no electricity.

Five anonymous bidders wanted the rusty “spark plug,” so-called for its cylinder base and 70-foot tower, three miles off the coast of Dorchester County. In the end, someone paid $192,000.

A bidding war occurred for the Hooper Island Lighthouse, which can’t be used as a home or rental property, sits in a Navy-controlled “danger area,” and will cost a substantial amount of money to maintain.

The Hooper Island Lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay is being auctioned to the public, but no one has bid on it yet.

A new publication from Penn State Extension is a must-read for those who want the latest information about the invasive spotted lanternfly.