HICKORY — The Catawba Valley Camera Club has announced the winners of its photographic competition for the March 15 meeting. The competition was for projection images with the assigned topic
HICKORY — The Catawba Valley Camera Club has announced the winners of its photographic competition for the Nov. 16 meeting. The competition was for projection images with the assigned topic
HICKORY — The Catawba Valley Camera Club has announced the winners of its photographic competition for the Oct. 19 meeting. The competition was for projection images with the assigned topic
ENOSBURG, Vt. Service and family are the running themes at Rick’s Sugarhouse in Enosburg, Vt. “You get that bug and it keeps growing and growing,” said Rick Hoburn who runs the operation with son, Richard, daughter, Autumn and cousin Donny Teague. Hoburn started sugaring with just 25 buckets and a 4x4 pan but now the operation is one of the biggest in Vermont, aiming to have 50,000 taps in for this coming season and a potential to grow it to 80,000. Hoburn, a cancer survivor who also battles the effects of Lyme disease, bought the 700 acres of sugarbush three years ago and broke ground on the massive sugarhouse in April 2020 during the peak of Covid. In just six months, the sugarhouse was up and ready for boiling. The woods were mostly tapped too, with help from neighbors like sugarmaker J.R. Sloan and Tom Patterson of CDL. Sloan was the one who tipped off Hoburn that the property was available. “The trees are big and it’s just a beautiful lot,” Hoburn said. “It was