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Courtesy LaLou This story is part of a group of stories called If you haven’t heard, it’s ramps season. A comedy video from TikTok user Jake W. Cornell parodying a well-heeled Brooklyn dad panicking that his kid wouldn’t get to experience this year’s “ramps season” before it’s over has gone viral. “I’ve tried three markets, I’m literally in the park foraging right now and there are no ramps!” he yells into the phone at his husband. The video has nearly a million views, and the comments are full of two types of people in particular — those saying they also love ra...

'Every other tomato is bullsh*t' : Meet NY's prized produce How the Hudson Valley became home to a coveted Italian tomato FacebookTwitterEmail Twenty years ago, Cesare Casella gave Rick Bishop of Mountain Sweet Berry Farm in Roscoe a tomato seed to grow that Casella snuck over from his hometown of Lucca, Italy. Today this Italian heirloom, prized by CSA members, sauce makers and tomato sandwich lovers, has found a prominent home at farms throughout the Hudson Valley.Rick Bishop Rick Bishop first heard of the Canestrino tomato 20 years ago when chef Cesare Casella approached him at the New Yo...

An emergency meeting of the Gadsden Civil Service Board was called Thursday with one purpose — to discuss naming a new interim fire chief, to serve until the board can interview five remaining candidates for the job and name someone to lead the department. The board did. Board President Alice Pruett said Mayor Sherman Guyton had recommended Assistant Chief Craig Cannon as the new interim chief, and the board approved his appointment. For some Gadsden firefighters, however, there is a larger discussion that needs to occur — about the "culture" within the department, and what they see as a ...

Economy, finance, and budgets California’s coastal urban centers, once the ultimate land of opportunity, suffer notorious traffic congestion, unaffordable housing, and a social chasm defined by a shrinking middle class, a small wealthy sector, and a sizable population seemingly locked in poverty. If there is a future for the region’s middle and upwardly mobile working class, it’s more likely to be found in the state’s large, generally more affordable, interior, known as the Inland Empire, or “the IE.” But for that to happen, the area’s promise needs to be better recognized—and...