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(Editor's note: we highly recommend you listen to this piece.) After surviving centuries of New England weather, and no shortage of children trying to climb it, the sugar maple that has stood in front of Buxton’s home sustained catastrophic damage in a recent windstorm. Buxton surveying damage to the trunk suffered during a recent windstorm. Credit Todd Bookman/NHPR “You could hear it creaking open,” she said. A crack in the trunk left it wounded beyond repair. Buxton and her arborist, Micum Davis of Cornerstone Tree Service, agreed it was time to take it down. “I love my tree. I’m ...

March 12, 2021 Live in-person events and activities are coming back to the Port Huron Museum. Andrew Kercher, community engagement manager for the museum, tells WPHM that in addition to the Carnegie Center, the Thomas Edision Depot and Fort Gratiot Light Station are expected to reopen next month. “We are banking on that pent up urge to get out, and we’re actually starting on weekends in April,” said Kercher. The museum’s satellite locations are slated to reopen April 10th. He also says the museum’s popular Vintage Trolley Tours will return April 16th. In the meantime, Kercher sa...

Longer daylight hours and warming temperatures have started something you can’t usually see, but the onset of spring has started the sap flowing in the sugar maples at Maywood Environmental Park. Park Director Dave Kuckuck said they’re busy processing one of nature’s original treats, and so far 240 gallons of sap have already been collected.  But if that sounds like a lot, Kuckuck said that 240 gallons will be reduced to about just 6 gallons of finished product.  Throughout the season, that means there’ll be about 25 gallons produced in all. In a normal year, a...

The Green Hollow Sugar House in Plainfield has been increasing their technology over the last several years. A new technology and process called reverse osmosis...

9 & 10 News March 2, 2021 “It’s fun while learning,” says Julieann Akers, a fifth grader at Forest Area Community Schools. Akers and her classmates are learning how to make a northern Michigan specialty… maple syrup! “I’ve never done it before, and I’ve wanted to try it,” says Akers. Now she’s able to try it through the SEEDS Ecology & Education Centers. The program was popular at Forest Area back in the 1980’s, but it came to a halt 15 years ago. SEEDS Site Coordinator Joe Kreider says he’s excited to bring back this opportunity for students: “Gives them something to ...