Grants Awarded By Connecticut's Agriculture Department (Hartford Courant)
The state Department of Agriculture has awarded more than 7,000 in matching funds for farm projects, including solar-powered irrigation, wine filtration systems and cider mill equipment.
Shop, sheds, hold place for enthusiast (High Plains Journal)
A farm shop can be many things to many people. It's a workspace, certainly. There needs to be a place for everything and everything in its place. To some, it's a point of profit.
Forging ahead: Modern blacksmiths reconnect with past (Tacoma News Tribune)
It’s a sound that’s echoed through the centuries since antiquity. It’s the sound Vulcan made at his forge under Mount Etna. It’s the sound memorialized in Longfellow’s “The Village Blacksmith.” It’s the clang of a hammer striking red-hot metal laid upon an anvil.
Flood families continue their struggles (Lahontan Valley News)
The Fernley Flood came like a thief in the night, stealing not only people's possessions but, sometimes, their health and peace of mind as well as what might be one of their most precious quantities - time from their lives.
Whatever happened to ...? (Pahrump Valley Times)
Developers announced ambitious projects in 2008 to build hotels, casinos, shopping malls, restaurants and housing developments. Many have fallen short.
1927 yearbook brings back memories for 99-year-old Lloyd Dresser (Keokuk Daily Gate City)
MONTROSE - The first Montrose High School year book, The Anchor, was published in 1927, more than 80 years ago. Reading through its pages reveals many things of interest, things of which most of us living today have no personal knowledge.
Doll-McNiece-Miller Farms to sell 3,398 acres in Cimarron area (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CIMARRON, Kan.----The Doll, McNiece and Miller families are preparing to sell approximately 3,398 acres at auction Thursday, Jan. 15, with Schrader Auction Company managing the sale.
Hartwig: Viaduct vote was big; lets look at facilities (Fremont Tribune)
Editors note: Today we begin a four-part series in which we ask city, county and state leaders about their goals for 20... (3 comments)
Man's decade of travel spent attending every state fair in U.S. (The Pantagraph)
MOLINE -- With one well-worn, battered blue suitcase, James Kopel of Moline spent the past 11 years attending every state fair in the United States.
Hanover wraps up its 288th year (Herald-Progress)
2008 marked the year in which the Town of Ashland turned 150 years old and Hanover reached 288. The County's birthday may have met with substantially less fanfare than the Town's, but 2008 still proved to be an eventful year for many within Hanover's borders.
