Home and garden happenings — week of March 30
Twinsburg Garden Club is celebrating 50 years of making its city more beautiful.The club started in March 1963 as the Grow and Show Garden Club. Its primary interest in the beginning was flower...
View ArticleMary Beth Breckenridge: Campaign touts benefits of building American
Marnie Oursler’s passion started with a challenge.About a year and a half ago, a client approached the Delaware builder with the idea of building him a house using as many American-made products as...
View ArticleCanning jar revives vintage design
Canning jars aren’t just for canning anymore.The company that makes Ball canning jars saw jar sales increase 31 percent in 2102, a phenomenon it attributes to uses such as home decor and crafting.So...
View ArticleBook touts fast-growing vegetables
Sometimes, impatience is a virtue.Certain vegetables are at their tastiest when they’re very young. Those are the plants Mark Diacono and Lia Leendertz focus on in The Speedy Vegetable Garden.The book...
View ArticlePlant Lovers’ Almanac: Questions and answers
Q.: I have some green foundation shrubs that I think are called yews. Every spring, they send out a cloud of yellow dust. Is this caused by a fungus? I have children and am worried they’ll be hurt by...
View ArticleFifty shades of gray: Break from bondage of neutrals
Gray, you tempter.You’ve stirred our passion. You’ve inflamed our desire.We want you everywhere. In the bedroom. In the bathroom. In — gasp — the kitchen.We are held captive by your silken charms,...
View ArticleCritter corner: Why is our cat hitting us?
Q: This may seem silly, but please do not mark it up to age. I have a 10- to 11-year-old female neutered cat (my cats generally live to be around 18-19) who has developed an irritating habit. She will...
View ArticlePet Place: What to do when your pet tangles with a skunk
Our dogs work as hunting partners. On daily walks, the female flushes out the prey, be it a vole, chipmunk or squirrel, and the male impatiently waits to make the kill.Although only sometimes...
View ArticleAgency contest puts Peeps on parade
Unleash a few dozen creative brains on a gross or so of marshmallow Peeps, and what do you get?Walking-dead Zompeeps. Justin Peeper. And, of course, a couple of Peep shows.Such was the imaginative...
View ArticleReligion Notes: Organist to return to Westminister Presbyterian for Easter...
Four weeks after undergoing open heart surgery, James Mismas will return to the organ Sunday for the 10:30 a.m. Easter service at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1250 W. Exchange St. in Akron.Mismas,...
View ArticleChristians look to the cross in preparation for Easter
Christians fixed their eyes on the Cross at Calvary — contemplating the cost that Jesus paid for their salvation — during solemn services on Good Friday.At Holy Family Parish in Stow, the faith...
View ArticleChristians mark Jesus’ crucifixion on Good Friday
JERUSALEM: Hundreds of Christians streamed through the cobblestone alleyways of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, hoisting wooden crosses and chanting prayers to mark the Crucifixion of Jesus.Throngs of...
View ArticlePope’s foot-washing final blow for traditionalists
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has won over many hearts and minds with his simple style and focus on serving the world’s poorest, but he has devastated traditionalist Catholics who adored his predecessor,...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Backward incentives
Bartender’s job on the rocksSociety continues to suffer from questionable company policies that encourage precisely the wrong behaviors.Bartender Twyla DeVito said she knew that one of her regulars at...
View ArticleTime to make some deviled eggs
Coloring three dozen hard-cooked eggs seemed like fun when the kids were doing it, but tomorrow you may be wondering what to do with all of them.You can slice them on top of green salads or smash them...
View ArticleLife in Brief — Week of March 31
Daytona Beach top pickfor taking spring breakSpring break is a $1 billion a year industry. About 1.5 million college students participate every year.The top 10 spring break locations for college...
View ArticleJohn Rosemond: Class comedian needs discipline
In the seventh grade, I was promoted by my peers from president of the class geek-nerd-brainiac society to, well, if not fully cool, then at least on the way. I had discovered two sports I excelled in...
View ArticleHealth impact of obesity
• More than 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.• People who are overweight are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, high levels of blood fats, and LDL cholesterol, all...
View ArticleBest-sellers — week of March 31
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult. A New Hampshire baker finds herself in the midst of two Holocaust stories: her grandmother’s story of survival, and the confessions of an elderly...
View ArticleBook talk: ‘Midwife’s Tale,’ ‘International Bank of Bob’
Shaker Heights man debutsmystery set in 1644 YorkFrom the title, The Midwife’s Tale sounds as if Chaucer wrote it, but it’s a superb debut mystery by Shaker Heights author Sam Thomas. In 1644 York, as...
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