This week’s crawly is a moth of a different color – rather several colors. Meet the omnivorous looper moth (Sabulodes aegrotata), we’ll call them “omni” for short.

If you are unfortunate enough to have Himalayan blackberry in your yard, you will thank me for this column – this goes double for female gardeners. Have I found a deal for you!

Everyone has a fish story to tell, and mine is uniquely original. I was living alone in a one-bedroom apartment on the shore of Clear Lake in California. Specifically, Lakeport, Calif. I had been hired as the sports editor for a three-section, bi-weekly newspaper, the Lake County Record-Bee and I was responsible for the eight-page…

We hope you kept some pinecones after gathering them for our winter holiday cone-craft extravaganza, because this week we’ve got some fun-tastic Easter Cone-crafting ideas for you.

Bluebells have beautiful dainty, pendulous, tubular flowers that expand to a bell-shaped structure with flared lobes. Both our species are found in moist meadows, open forest areas and stream sides.

Away to the west of the Chetco-Illinois River divide, in a dark, wooded section of the Little Chetco canyon, many years ago, when the hardy gold seekers of that day were back there reaping a golden harvest, a sturdy little one-room cabin with an open lean-to attached to one end was built beside the trail…

REGULARLY SCHEDULED PUBLICMEETINGSCity Hall – Council Chambers17 Buchanan Avenue South City Council – 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month at 6:00 p.m. – Council Chambers and via Zoom. See Public Hearing Notice below. Neighborhood Enhancement Commission – Next meeting date to be announced –  6:00 p.m. – Council Chambers. Planning Commission – Next meeting date…

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March 18 is National Sloppy Joe Day and March 21 is National Corn Dog day – use these recipes to celebrate accordingly!

There were two agenda topics on the March 5 Shady Cove City Council meeting agenda, the topic of “financial status” was added by Mayor Lena Richardson at the beginning of the meeting.

As reported in this week’s article on the March 5 Shady Cove City Council Meeting, a full one-quarter of the meeting was dedicated to council comments, and most of those comments centered on the current effort to recall Mayor Lena Richardson.

Shady Cove has a new eatery and while its name may first catch your attention, it’s the food that will have you come back time and again. It’s at the former location of Rogue River Arts and Eats, a storefront that’s now home to Slightly Tilted Kinda Shady. Located at 21850 Highway 62, Slightly Tilted…

The Eagle Point Neighborhood Enhancement Commission held their first regular meeting of the year March 2 and with a handful of goals for the year from the city council, they hit the ground running with three basic goals.

The Lady Eagles basketball team‘s playoff run is one and done after traveling to number three-ranked South Albany where they were defeated 62-30 by the Red Hawks.

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Bitty bug, big eyes, big benefit! Meet the big-eyed bug (Genus Geocoris).

At a mere 1/8 of an inch (3mm) the only big thing about big-eyed bugs are their eyes.

I love my dogs – but – I’m super ready for their collective case of Spring Fever to be over, and it isn’t even really spring yet!

Baseball season is coming and I’m ready for 162 games of relaxing at the ballpark with a transistor radio tuned into the game in one hand, a scorebook in the other and a cold glass of beer under my chair for between innings. My very first major league game was when I was barely old…

To celebrate Women’s History Month this week’s All Things will shine a spotlight on three unique, talented and artistic Oregonians – Ebba Wicks Brown, Marian Wood Kolisch and Toni Pimble.