Raise Chickens – Backyard Poultry Chickens can be fun to raise, but before getting started, check with your local zoning office to make sure owning live poultry isn't prohibited in your area. If you're given the green light, purchase day-old chicks from a feedstore or an online source, such as mypetchicken.com, which offers standard and...
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We pause here to wish a speedy recovery to a Kent neighbor from Farmer's Mills Road who surprised two burglars in his home last week and and was found badly beaten and semi-conscious several hours later by coworkers wondering why he'd not come back from lunch. He's currently in hospital but late reports say...
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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams Good Monday Morning, My propane company (Burnwell) just delivered 85 gallons of propane and billed me $6.039 per gallon plus a $9.99 “admin fee”. Plus taxes, the total bill was $524.15. The bill says they made the delivery on...
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While the elections are generally calm in most of our towns it's not so over in Southeast where the vitriol continues unabated as the days move on towards the primary a week from next Tuesday. Really now, if I lived in that town I'd be embarrassed. Southeast replaced Kent several years back as the...
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We wait all year for warmer weather and longer days. Once we get them, it seems new problems for farmers rise to the surface every week: overnight temperatures plunging close to freezing, early disease, aphid attacks. Another day, another problem. The latest trouble is the explosion of late blight, a plant disease that attacks potatoes...
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Croton digs in as demand grows for village garden Robert Marchant rmarchan@lohud.com CROTON-ON-HUDSON – The village is looking for a few good gardeners. An e-mail and fliers are being distributed around the community, seeking people who want a little patch of land to call their own. The Board of Trustees unanimously approved spending up to...
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Good Friday Morning, We had our first day of summer weather yesterday and though it’s more like we’re living in the Adirondacks than the Hudson Valley, all I can say is that I hope summer last a little longer than usual to make up for the late start. The NY State Senate failed to take any...
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