MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Video footage captured a man breaking into the sunroof of an Infiniti at Shelby Farms Wednesday. Uday Sripathi says he comes to Shelby Farm Park every evening to walk his dog. On Wednesday, he parked his car in the P2 Outback parking lot. It was there that his car was broken into. Video […]
Spring is in the air and there’s a lot about it to celebrate at Century Farms. Located at 167th St. and Quivira Rd. in Overland Park, this upscale home community has just released Phase 5 and sales are already at a brisk pace. The first place to start is the model row. Here prospective buyers […]
May 11—Ten years ago, you would not have recognized Honey Creek Beef, a closed herd cattle farm located at 6350 Addison-New Carlisle Road, just outside of Champaign County in New Carlisle. Owners Adam Frantz and his wife, Mia Grimes, have put in a lot of hard work to transform the property into the home of […]
Fresh strawberries, cherries and other fruits are ready for picking this spring and summer in Northern California. Several farms in the area are letting customers forage their fields and orchards in search of delicious fruits. Here’s where and what you can pick: Amber Oaks Berry Farm 10000 Mount Vernon, Auburn; 530-885-3420 Amber Oaks Berry Farm, […]
Twelve Malawians have been deported from Israel after leaving the farms where they were working to get higher salaries elsewhere. The 12 Malawians were among more than 40 foreign workers who were arrested while working at a bakery in Tel Aviv last week. The workers, who were part of a labour agreement between Israel and […]
California farmers once grew 36,000 acres of asparagus. Now, fewer than 3,000 acres are devoted to it in the state. How did we get here? It was a late March morning and dozens of women and men descended on a San Joaquin Valley asparagus farm — one of the last in the state. The workers […]
May 7—BEMIDJI — U.S. Sen. Tina Smith recently announced farms in Shevlin and Clearbrook will receive grants to purchase and install a 50-kilowatt solar array through the Renewable Energy for America program. Seventy farms and small businesses across Minnesota received a total of $7,875,510 to install clean energy technology on their farms. Grant funding will […]
There was a $237 million surprise at the Florida A&M University graduation on Saturday afternoon when Gregory Gerami announced that he was donating one of the largest gifts in HBCU history. “This gift is breathtaking in its generosity and its scope,” FAMU President Larry Robinson said. Florida A&M University received a whopping $237 million gift […]
NELSONVILLE – A group of current and former Nelsonville residents filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Portage County Circuit Court in pursuit of clean drinking water. The five individuals, represented by Midwest Environmental Advocates, are challenging a settlement made in September between the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Gordondale Farms of Nelsonville, a community of […]
The state office created to speed the approval of large-scale wind and solar projects is moving too slowly, threatening New York’s clean energy goals, according to an audit released Thursday by the state Comptroller. The Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES,) created in 2020 amid criticism the state’s approval process was “cumbersome and inefficient,” took […]
Jefferson Currie II is at war with flies. Spotted flypaper dangles from the ceiling of his home in North Carolina’s Scotland county. He shows off a two-quart jar trap, marketed as an outdoor pest control solution for farms, full of flies he’s caught indoors. On Zoom meetings for his job as the Lumber Riverkeeper with […]
Multiple structures in Bourbon County, including a barn used by the University of Kentucky Dressage Team, have been significantly damaged by Tuesday’s severe storm, according to Bourbon County Judge-Executive Mike Williams. Most of the damage is located in the southern portion of Bourbon County near the Fayette and Clark county lines, Williams said. There were […]