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Purge the scourge of spurge from your garden

Noticing a weed I have probably seen often but never identified, I took a picture and examined it. Although there are at least five genus of spurge, I recognized the prostrate spurge (Euphorbia humistrata), often confused with spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata). Part of the same genus, each ...

Valley Grows calendar

Here are upcoming gardening events through the Ohio State University Extension Office. For more information and a complete list, contact: • OSU Mahoning County Extension Office, 490 S. Broad St., Canfield. 330-533-5538. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. • ...

Preserving Black Churches grant application period opens

The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced the application period is now open for its Preserving Black Churches grant program — a $60 million national initiative dedicated to uplifting historically black churches and the ...

Religion news

FAMILY/ FRIENDS DAY: Progressive Baptist Church, 2258 Colonial Ave. SE, Warren, will host Family and Friends Day at 4 p.m. Sunday. Guest speaker is the Rev. Austin Shaw III from Community Church in God. The morning service with Pastor Daniel Johnson Jr. will be at 11 a.m. VBS AT CHURCH: ...

Shamanism used to help ‘heal’ people

LEETONIA — Sarah Goff, a Shaman who practices in Leetonia, was born with the sense to help others. Her gift of clairvoyance — a “sixth sense” that allows individuals to access information through means other than the five physical senses — developed to the point of being able to ...

A step to take as you near retirement

While most retirement portfolios include allocations to stocks and bonds in the years leading up to retirement, most retirement savers don’t hold much more than an emergency cushion in cash. Thus, an important job in the years before retirement is building up that cash cushion. The good ...