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Now's your chance. A virtual public involvement "meeting" is taking place through May 20 to provide people with a chance to comment about the project that will put a paved, multi-use recreational trail through the heart of Greenfield. The first phase of the project, scheduled to be constructed in summer 2022, will connect to the Oak Leaf Trail at West Cold Spring Road and stretch east 3 miles to 60th Street. The input session is being held virtually due to the pandemic, said Greenfield City Engineer Jeff Katz.  He said project organizers will take feedback into consideration and respond ...

web posted March 1, 2021 As I look out my second-story, home-office window onto Cold Spring Road in Indianapolis, Indiana—“Crossroads of America”—a young woman, driving a silver, late-model Chrysler, pulls off to the side of the road, gets out of her car, takes a gas tank from the back seat, opens the car hood, puts out a cigarette dangling from her mouth, and leans against the driver’s door in leisured anticipation of her first mark. Within seconds, a car turns the corner off of busy Michigan Road and the woman jumps into action. Grabbing the gas can, she places...

Three-year study seeks out top-performing coneflower varieties By Adrian Higgins The Washington Post,Updated February 21, 2021, 12:00 a.m. Email to a Friend The long-flowering native purple coneflower emerges in June. Other coneflowers await the curious gardener. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Adrian HigginsAdrian Higgins/The Washington Post Wildflowers have long presented a quandary for gardeners. Their natural purity is sometimes too pure. The stems are weak, the flowers are small and fleeting, and the plants often melt away with excessive coddling. Enter plant hybridizers, patient a...

Marian Harman In this winter of our COVID discontent, we have something exciting to look for at our feeders. According to the National Audubon website, this winter is “one of the biggest irruption years of boreal birds in recent memory.” As you have no doubt noticed, conifers have “mast” years when cones are plentiful and other years when they produce very few cones. Conifers’ primary predators are squirrels and it is thought that these irregular cycles of lean years keep the population of squirrels in control. When cone crops are meager in Canada, as they are this winter, many squi...

  A Sunday afternoon email from Director Carrie Gagne informed affected families that the college learned on Saturday that a single teacher at the preschool had tested positive, prompting a decision to shutter the facility for 10 days.   The letter said the decision was made with the consultation of college leadership and the local Board of Health, which noted the closure at its Monday morning meeting.   "In other scenarios we might have only closed one classroom," Gagne wrote. "However, the Pine Room has an exceptionally large number of siblings and family members moving through sev...