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Three Artists Display Their Latest Works At Etherton Gallery By Margaret Regan HYPED-UP COLOR saturates every work in Etherton Gallerys sumptuous opening show of the season. Gail Marcus-Orlen, a popular local artist, paints surrealistic interiors in her familiar turquoises, yellows and purples, ratcheting up the hues of her drifting walls and unloosed easy chairs to the intensity of neon. On the opposite wall, photographer Christopher Burkett plumbs the brilliant unnatural colors of the natu...

Groton — A 161-acre land parcel off Noank Ledyard Road in Mystic is in line to be the town’s latest open space acquisition. The town recently received a $352,000 grant from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protections Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition Program to purchase the vacant parcel, called the Wolfebrook property, which is bordered to the north by the Fields of Fire complex and to the south by Regatta Circle and Chelsea Way. The town and the Groton Open S...

Officials broke ground Wednesday on the first hotel of the Mayflower Mountain Resort, which is to replace a U.S. Air Force recreation facility that was shuttered in the run-up to the 2002 Olympic Games.

How is Longleaf Pine in the mountains of northern Alabama connected to anything in our area? Posted: May 19, 2021 8:47 PM Updated: May 20, 2021 1:30 AM Posted By: Chad Evans Still working on this..... Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) is a beautiful pine of large cones & seeds & very long needles native to the southern U.S. (mostly Deep South). At one time, it completely dominated the Coastal Plain from Missississippi to North Carolina.  Longleaf thrives on disturbance.  Its seeds do not go v...

Verdi’s Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. ** 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, wri...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...

Norwalk leaders help plant a tree at Friday’s Arbor Day observance in Oak Hills Park. (Bill Wrenn) NORWALK, Conn. — For Arbor Day 2021, Eversource and the City planted 10 new trees, in cooperation with Norwalk Public Schools, Norwalk Tree Advisory Committee, Norwalk Tree Alliance, and Oak Hills Park Authority. Eight were planted Friday in Oak Hills Park; Eversource paid for five of the trees while the City paid for three. To meet the Arbor Day Foundation guidelines of “Planting the Ri...

Special to the OBSERVER Richard Newton, head grounds supervisor, plants a new tree on Symphony Circle, joined by, from left, Director of Facilities Services Kevin Cloos, Director of Environmental Health & Safety and Sustainability Sarah Laurie, Assistant Director of Facilities/Custodial Services Mark Delcamp and President Stephen Kolison Jr. SUNY Fredonia is commemorating Earth Day with what will be the planting of over 20 new trees by members of the Grounds and Landscaping crew, renewing a c...

Photo - howtoplantyourgarden.com Clay soils, found in many of our landscapes, do not mean you can never achieve a garden worthy of glossy magazine coverage but it does mean you will have to work harder at it. Improving your clay soil starts with a basic working knowledge of soil structure and plant needs. First, consider that most plants’ roots grow in the top 8 to 10 inches of soil; even big trees have most of their roots in the upper 18 inches. Underground, roots still need oxygen to “bre...

Grange Co-op celebrates Arbor Day with free tree sapling giveaway Grange Co-op will be giving away Red Maple, Japanese Maple, Eastern Redbud, Maidenhair tree, Heartleaf Hornbeam and Korean Dogwood seedlings next Tuesday. Posted: Apr 7, 2021 1:00 PM Updated: Apr 7, 2021 1:02 PM Posted By: Jamie Parfitt MEDFORD, Ore. — Grange Co-op is celebrating Arbor Day by giving away 1,500 tree saplings at its locations in southern Oregon and California, the company announced Wednesday. The even starts on...