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Masked yarners strike around city with knit graffiti

Tue, 17 May 2011 02:34:08 +0000

Masked yarners strike around city with knit graffiti
Knitting turned rebellious Friday morning when three masked knitters adorned Riverside Park with their wares. They started early, hoping to remain incognito behind their hand-knit disguises.

Looking at the Top News Events from Around Ashley County in 2010

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:35:32 +0000

Looking at the Top News Events from Around Ashley County in 2010
Queen Joy McQuay reigned over the Hamburg High School homecoming festivities. The next week, Shi Shi Chen was the Crossett homecoming queen. During the first weekend in October, Ashley County was under a red flag warning because of extremely dry and windy conditions.

Honduras Copan Archeology Trip – Jim Rogers Around the World

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:34:44 +0000

Jim Rogers is the author of best sellers, Investment Biker, Hot Commodities, Adventure Capitalist and A Bull In China. Jim Rogers was named by John Train as one of the most successful money managers of all time. In 1999 and 2000 Jim and his wife Paige traveled around the world. Their adventure is documented here in The Millennium Adventure. The Pre-Columbian city today known as Copán is a locale in western Honduras, in the Copán Department, near to the Guatemalan border. It is the site of a major Maya kingdom of the Classic era (5th through 9th Centuries). The kingdom, anciently named Xukpi (Corner-Bundle), flourished from the 5th century AD to the early 9th century, with antecedents going back to at least the 2nd century AD. Its name is an apparent reference to the fact that it was situated at the far southern and eastern end of Maya territory. The nearby modern village of Copán Ruinas itself may have anciently been known as Oxwitik. The site in Copan is known for producing a remarkable series of portrait stelae, most of which were placed along processional ways in the central plaza of the city and the adjoining “acropolis” (a large complex of overlapping step-pyramids, plazas, and palaces). The stelae and sculptured decorations of the buildings of Copán are some of the very finest surviving art of ancient Mesoamerica. Many structures are elaborately decorated with stone sculptures, usually constructed from a mosaic of carved stones of a size that one person could carry …

Heard Around Town

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:34:48 +0000

Heard Around Town
It’s not well known around here that one of the biggest players in the fisheries industry is based in Newburyport. And when the New England Fishery Management Council makes a decision, the industry listens. Most recently, the council, which has its office on Water Street, decided to keep its restrictions on monkfish catches in place. The fish is particularly popular in Japan, where its liver is …

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Should I put rocks or mulch around my plants?

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:43:15 +0000

I have two 6×6 areas in my front yard, one on each side of the porch. My husband wants to fill it in with rocks and use barrels for plants. I want to plant a mixture of hostas, day lilies, echinacea, etc…color! He doesn’t like the wood chips, and I hear rocks are hard to clean out when it starts getting dead leaves and petals. What do you recommend? Any pictures or ideas to share? What about keeping weeds away?

how do you make outdoors rocks to go around a pond?

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:34:40 +0000

I want to redo my small pond with rocks. saw on tv about a product put on to chicken wire which is molden to the shape that you want. then you brush this product and paint color of choice. it can be left out in the weather–rain and snow. but i didn’t get the name of the product.

Is it okay to have landscaping rocks around plants?

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:58:14 +0000

I have 1-2 inch rocks around my lawn- we have planted plants and trees in the rock areas. Now I hear that plants and trees will not do very well, that they should be surrounded with mulch instead- is this true?

Pokémon Red Talkthrough 04: Rock Around the Brock

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:40:27 +0000

The first appearance of a legend. (Diglett, I mean. Not Brock.)

Around Annapolis: Guild members turn rocks into gemstones

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:03:39 +0000

Around Annapolis: Guild members turn rocks into gemstones
You could say Ken and Becky Moser’s wedding anniversary got off to a “rocky” start. After seeing it on the Discovery Channel, the Severna Park couple decided to take a trip to the Emerald Hollow Mine in Hiddenite, N.C., in 2007 to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary.