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I was thrilled a couple of weeks ago when I spied a local maple producer working on the sap lines up and down my hill. Maple is the first product in our agricultural year — and it’s possibly the most precious.I spoke last week with Winton Pitcoff, the...
March is prime maple sugaring time, creating the best conditions for local producers and hobbyists to collect sap and turn it into the New England staple. This month, producers are opening the doors to their sugar houses to give interested residents a...
Maple sugar season commences with Royalston event Visitors mingle outside the Sweet Water Sugarhouse in Royalston just prior to last Friday’s reading of a proclamation from Gov. Charlie Baker declaring March to be Maple Month in Massachusetts. Staff Photo/Greg Vine Ashley Randle, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Agricultural Resources, is assisted by Sweet Water Sugarhouse owner Tom Leray as she taps the official “first tree of the season” to get Maple Month under way. Staff Photo/Greg Vine Steam escapes from the chimney at the Sweet Water Sugarhouse in Royalston short...
From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Tuscaloosa: Students across the three-campus University of Alabama System will return to in-person instruction for the fall semester with no limits on class size in Birmingham, Huntsville or Tuscaloosa to guard against COVID-19, officials said Monday. The system, which has held classes in multiple formats since the pandemic began a year ago, said in a statement that current models show it should be safe to resume traditional teaching after the summer break. Millions more should have been vaccinated against the disease by then. Dr. Selwyn Vickers...
House committees hear emergency order backlash bills The Associated Press Modified: 3/1/2021 8:34:09 PM CONCORD — Two House committees heard testimony Monday on a batch of bills born out of the backlash against Republican Gov. Chris Sununu’s actions during the coronavirus pandemic. Sununu first declared a state of emergency on March 13, and has renewed the declaration every three weeks since then. During that time, he also has issued more than 80 emergency orders. The committees held public hearings on 10 bills related to the governor’s authority in both areas. Under current law, a sta...