Memorial Day weekend—the unofficial start of summer—is a notoriously busy weekend for camping. Coveted sites can sell out months in advance, and that can be tough if you’re a last-minute trip planner. But there are still some serene spots within two hours of DC that haven’t been snagged—yet. Even better: many of these are glamping …
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Moms have a reputation for multitasking, usually with little fanfare. But one Canadian mother inadvertently encapsulated the chaos of motherhood in a video that went viral this week. Caitlin Oakley, a mother of three in Vancouver Island, Canada, was breastfeeding her infant daughter when she was called to action Monday night. She heard the family’s …
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Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Ukraine In a show of support for the Ukrainian government, the US has reopened its embassy in Kyiv after it …
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The baby formula crisis of spring 2022 has been like a “slow motion car crash” whose unfolding paralyzed the country, according to an expert in supply chain management at Arizona State University. Hitendra Chaturvedi, a professor of practice in the WP Carey School of Business, said the shortage of infant formula that left store shelves …
In fall 2020, Leah Shaffer ordered four chickens from a Missouri hatchery — a pandemic impulse purchase to get her two children outside, she said. “I wanted them to have a reason to go out basically into the backyard and just have some real life sort of experience with nature instead of just computer time,” …
May 19, 1887: The Comet reported several news items of interest to area residents. Readers learned that “A Military company will be organized at the City Hall tonight. Al (sic) interested are invited to attend.” “Mrs. Hannah Massengill, one of Sullivan county’s (sic) oldest citizens died last Tuesday.” “The Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works …
Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm near Stroudsburg will hold its 33rd annual Farm Animal Frolic May 21, 22 and May 28, 29, on Saturdays from 10 am to 4 pm, and Sundays noon to 4 pm To folks in the 21st century springtime means warmer weather, flowers blooming and the return of robins. In the …
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VIEW — All JB Merritt could do was sit in the shade of the View Baptist Church parking lot with his five dogs – a sixth puppy in his SUV, with the engine running on another 100-degree-plus day – and wait. A wildfire that started late Tuesday afternoon along US Highway 277 between Coronado’s Camp …
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Chicks hatch from their eggs. Credit: Otwarte Klatki/Andrew Skowron. CC BY 2.0. As H5N1 avian influenza spreads in birds around the United States and elsewhere, causing farmers to cull tens of millions of chickens and other farmed birds, baseless conspiracy theories about the intensity of the bird flu and its origins are spreading with it. …
It’s suddenly summer in the beginning of May! It’s baby rabbit season, so we have to keep Ursula, the black dog, on the leash. A few years ago, she discovered that she could find the nests hidden beneath the turf, and she got a little addicted to these tasty morsels. It’s funny to me that …
