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Curry Lumber will mark 160th anniversary
There are few businesses that reach the 100-year mark, and even fewer that stay around 150 years. But Curry Lumber in Wooster, Ohio, will celebrate its 160th year in August, an achievement that happens only when a company is committed to serving its customers at the highest level.
Penn Stater places third in lumberjack competition
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — It’s not necessary to be a lumberjack to pursue a career in forestry, Penn State senior Timothy Benedict will tell you, but it doesn’t hurt either.
From a lump of clay the potter made everything for pioneers
After the blacksmith, a potter was the next essential skilled tradesman in the burgeoning
towns of early Ohio Country in the 1800s.
Edinburg, Pa. couple grows largest pumpkin in U.S.
CANFIELD, Ohio — The Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers weighed the U.S. champion pumpkin at their October competition. The club’s 17th annual weigh-off was held at Parks Garden Center near Canfield, Ohio. The new U.S. champions are Dave and Carol Stelts of Edinburg, Pa. Their pumpkin weighed 1807.5 pounds, the second heaviest ever recorded. The
Now’s the time to pump up ethanol use
A reader urges the U.S. legislature to “wake up and begin funding more ethanol plants.”
Refrigerate your pumpkin pie, even if the store doesn’t
MANHATTAN, Kan. — The U.S. pumpkin crop has been plentiful this year, so pre-season sales should offer opportunities to purchase pumpkin for breads, rolls and muffins, cakes, cookies and pies, said Karen Blakeslee, Kansas State University Research and Extension food scientist. And, while a traditional Thanksgiving dinner might seem incomplete without a pumpkin pie, consumers
Stark County woman holds claim to world’s largest pumpkin
Christy Harp, of Jackson Township just outside Canton, has grown a 1,725-pound behemoth pumpkin, believed to be the world’s largest ever recorded. It will likely retain that title if it can survive a couple more weigh-offs.
Common eastern bumblebee can boost pumpkin yields
THACA, N.Y. — Each grinning jack-o’-lantern starts with yellow pollen grains, ferried from a male to a female pumpkin flower by bees.
Rain squashes hope of bumper pumpkin crop this year
Ohio pumpkin producers battled downy mildew this year, the worst in 25 years.
Pumpkin patch: Wet soils may be haven for disease
Bad timing of rain showers is slowing pumpkin development and may pose disease problems for growers later in the season.
