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Pilots’ group to serve breakfast in Wellsboro

The Canyon Pilots Association Labor Day Weekend All-You-Can-Eat Fly-In Breakfast will be held from 8 a.m. to noon, Sept. 1, indoors at the corporate hangar at the Grand Canyon Regional Airport in Delmar Township at 112 Runway Road, Wellsboro. According to a news release, the breakfast is ...

Toxic lookalikes can fool people

Alicia Silverstone worried fans this week when she posted a TikTok clip of herself nibbling a poisonous berry she found along a sidewalk on a trip to England. The “Clueless” actor said she thought the fruit might have been a tomato, but realized it wasn’t after a couple bites revealed an off-tasting, peppery flavor. That tomato lookalike seems to have been a Jerusalem cherry (Solanum pseudocapsicum), which, along with actual tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, potatoes and tomatillos, is a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family. Although the fruits (and potato tuber) of those ...

Grange Fair Queen crowned at 150th event

To much fanfare, the Grange Fair crowned this year’s queen, Kryslynn Ronk, 20, of Spring Mills, kicking off the fair’s 150th anniversary on Wednesday. The Penns Valley Area High School graduate was crowned the 2024 Centre County Grange Fair Queen by last year’s winner, Teaghan Bair, ...

Music, arts, performances bring crowds to 9th annual LH Jams festival

LOCK HAVEN — Although storms earlier in the week called into question the make up of the 9th Annual LH Jams Music and Arts Festival, Mother Nature pulled through and provided the perfect weather for its final act this weekend. Vendors lined Main Street — from painters, wood workers, ...

Summer winding down — but buttonbush still has time to shine

Fall is just around the corner, and some of my summer bloomers are beginning to wind down. But birds and other wildlife continue to need sustenance from plants, and I continue to need focal points in my garden. Fortunately, buttonbush, a sadly underused shrub, is filling both of our needs. Sometimes referred to as honey balls, buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is the last to leaf out in spring and the last summer-flowering shrub to bloom in my garden. But it makes up for its tardiness with its unique clusters of spherical, white blossoms that resemble golf-ball-sized Sputnik ...