What a surprise I had a little after dawn. I am down by the brook checking on ripening berries, and I discover another luna moth on this morning of July’s Berry Moon. This one is lying dead on a pine log. The last one I found was on the road in June on a […]
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Do you have room in your heart?
Beautiful Viper and her three kittens were found abandoned underneath the wheel of a garbage truck, covered in an unknown oily substance. After being brought to Responsible Pet Care, it was discovered that this oily substance had caused chemical burns on one of Viper’s kittens. Viper was frail, with her hip bones protruding and her […]
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Movie Review: ‘Longlegs’
The gruesome horror movie “Longlegs” pulled something of an upset at this past weekend’s domestic box office. It wasn’t enough to upset “Despicable Me 4” for the #1 spot, but it did the best among new releases. Great reviews were seemingly enough to pull the family-unfriendly indie darling into the #2 spot and make it […]
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Movie Review: ‘Despicable Me 4’
For a franchise that has been fairly consistent with its style of PG animated humor, the “Despicable Me” movies are kind of all over the place for me. I couldn’t stand the first one, loved the second one, thought the first “Minions” spinoff had its moments, felt the shtick was stale for the third one, […]
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Backyard Reflections: Moles, nature’s helpful excavators
Moles might be good friends to have. I have become very interested in moles because I have so many tunnels that follow the underground water pathways on my land. Knowing how to locate water underground helped me choose my garden site many years ago. Over the years, this choice has served my plants and […]
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Movie Review: ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’
“A Quiet Place: Day One” made a grave miscalculation with its advertising. Scenes were filmed with the intention of putting them in the trailers, but not the movie. This way, when people saw the movie, they wouldn’t be able to properly anticipate the surprises and story progression. To that end, the advertising succeeded, I was […]
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Backyard Reflections: Jack or Jill?
Jack in the Pulpits are intriguing spring woodland herbs that are native to the eastern part of the United States. They can be found along moist and shaded forest seeps, sedges, streams, and floodplains first appearing as a single pale green spike as the plant breaks ground in early spring. As the plants mature and […]
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Backyard Reflections
A Little Forest Walk Above the craggy mountain that I live against is a small community forest composed of 600-plus acres with some astonishing views and excellent birding, as I discovered this morning. To my great delight, I heard the first Indigo bunting of the year and many warblers dear to my heart. Wandering off […]
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Age-Friendly Community Initiative
The Bethel Age-Friendly Community Initiative has had a busy spring as we work to bring community resources and information about them to area seniors. We have an updated Resource Directory on our website at agefriendlybethel.org which provides links and other contacts for medical, educational, transportation, fuel assistance, legal, and other topics. Our volunteers are […]
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Movie Review: ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’
I’m not going to go into a lot of depth about the story in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” Miami detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are back to have another cop adventure. They do some investigating, clash with superiors, run afoul of bad guys, the bad guys endanger their loved […]