Gardening Tips: Labor Day weekend, from a gardening viewpoint

Labor Day weekend generally marks the last weekend of the summer vacation season. Next week the kids will be heading back to school and some seasonal residents will be beginning to close up their summer homes.

Peoria will conduct classes on landscaping, water conservation

Peoria will launch a series of free classes this fall about landscaping and water conservation. Classes are free. All that's required is registration.

Former Hudson Falls resident pays village for old water use

HUDSON FALLS -- The former local plumber who was found to havehooked up his village home's water system to bypass a water meterhas paid a $10,440 bill to avoid criminal charges.

St. Fiacre's Gardeners work from the heart

Every Monday morning during the summer months, eight local retired women pack up their tools, a healthy supply of water and head off to work. They work a minimum of three hours, if not six, providing outdoor strenuous labor, and they don’t get paid a cent. But they love what they do, and they can’t imagine not doing it. They are the St. Boniface St. Fiacre’s Gardeners.

Oasis of inspiration in Tacoma's North End

A vegetable garden is growing in the North End of Tacoma that’s inspiring neighbors, passers-by and the community to begin gardening on their own. Call it viral gardening. Terry and Michele Drochak have turned their corner lot into a terraced vegetable oasis that doesn’t sacrifice aesthetics despite its almost industrial-paced output of produce.