Advanced Search Close Search
Jeremy Wexler: The raccoon that ate the grub that killed the lawn...
Canada

Jeremy Wexler: The raccoon that ate the grub that killed the lawn...

  • By Jeremy Wexler, The Suburban

Had Gadya, a song about a baby goat that gets eaten by a cat that is in turn eaten by a dog which is hit by a stick and so on, is sung at the end of the Passover seder. It is the Jewish version of There Was an Old Lady or my favourite There's a Hole in the Bucket, which has the fun additional feature of wrapping back around at the end.

Colorado

Fifty for 150: First peach trees planted on Western Slope of Colorado in 1882

  • Sara Wilson

John Harlow, one of the early white settlers in Mesa County, first planted fruit trees in 1882 at his farm at Rapid Creek, a few miles from what is now Palisade.  Those are widely considered the first fruit trees in Grand Valley, and they spearheaded the agricultural tradition of peach-growing in the area. Those trees, […]

States Newsroom

Braun directs state to revisit coal power plant closures 

  • Jack Forrest

Gov. Mike Braun directed his energy and natural resources secretary to revisit settlements that closed or sought to close coal power plants in Indiana. Settlements identified in a Friday executive order include those that would close a plant before 50 years of service — described as the average age of retirement for electric generation units […]