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Hints from Heloise: Tips for freezing your corn

DEAR HELOISE: My mother froze a lot of corn, and she used these two easy tricks: After she blanched the corn, she would set the ear of corn on an angel food cake pan and use an electric knife to cut off the kernels. This made cutting off the kernels quicker and easier. And the pan caught the kernels, so there was less mess. — Michelle R., via email DEAR HELOISE: I read Casey’s concern about faded laundry in a recent edition of the Press-Enterprise. As a lifelong clothesline user, I’ll share my hint: I do laundry in the evening when electricity is less expensive and leave it ...

Mahoning Valley arts and entertainment

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “Shaping Space: PIttsburgh Society of Sculptors” and “Nicole May Luga — City Scrolls: Everyday Beauty,” both through Sept. 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday ...

Dear Annie: How and when to unpack your life baggage

DEAR ANNIE: I have now been married and divorced three times, with a total of over 37 years of married life. Though I doubt I will marry again at this stage of life, I would like to find a woman interested in a lasting, serious relationship. In trying online dating services, thus far I have found most women run the other way or quickly giving me the brush-off when I tell them, in the spirit of being honest and upfront, about my being divorced multiple times, plus having been estranged by my three daughters. In sharing these facts of my past, the two options both appear to be doomed to ...

Reader Series presents poets from Pittsburgh

Two Pittsburgh poets will be the featured readers at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event. Diane Kerr, a longtime member of Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshops in Pittsburgh, holds a master’s degree from Warren Wilson. Published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Pearl, Poetry East, and the Mississippi Review among others, her second book, “Perigee,” won the Brittingham Prize in 2020. Nancy Krygowski is the author of “The Woman in the Corner,” one of Library Journal’s top 100 (or so) poetry books of 2020, and ...

Sips & Scripts gets ‘Sin’-ful start

“Sin Eaters” is the first of eight plays that will be presented as part of Kent State University at Trumbull Theatre’s 2026-27 Sips & Scripts season. New works are presented in reader's theater style — actors are reading from scripts and performing without costumes and sets and usually without props — and staged readings play an important role in the development of unproduced productions. “They (the playwrights) can hear the words and hear them coming out of someone else’s mouth in a way where they haven’t been able to coach the actors and explain what they mean,” ...

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