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  • Keep Your Landscape Looking Good with Less Effort

    Megan Shafer, The Times|Updated Jul 10, 2020

    Keep your garden looking its best and reduce your workload by enlisting practices that provide multiple benefits. Your garden will flourish and you’ll have more time to enjoy its beauty. Put your yard waste to work in your garden. You’ll save time hauling plant debris to the recycling center and money spent buying bagged material. Use shredded leaves, evergreen needles, herbicide-free grass clippings or other pest- and weed-free organic material as mulch. Spread a one to two-inch layer of these materials over the soil aro...

  • Salutatorian's speech

    Megan Shafer|Updated Jun 15, 2019

    Graduation. It's one of those fantastic moments when achievement at its greatest can be celebrated. Before you, sit the graduates; those who have fought through every semester's end filled with important projects and every unprepared test. We thank you and welcome you – all the parents, teachers, family friends and anyone else who played a role in a graduate's life – to this ceremony. To see all of you in the crowd fills us all with a little extra pride. My name is Megan Sha...