Fresh and local
Saturday is the season opener for the Greensburg Farmers Market at Lynch Field, 520 New Alexandria Road. From 9 a.m.-noon, shop for locally grown fruits and vegetables, along with a variety of baked goods, prepared foods, jellies, honey, sauces, meats, wine and spirits and other seasonal items. The market will be open Saturday mornings, rain or shine, through mid-autumn.
Curiouser and curiouser
Mz. Jones Curiosities will have a pop-up show and sale Friday through Sunday at Green Beacon Gallery, 235 W. Pittsburgh St., Greensburg. Mz. Jones is a purveyor of “tasteful taxidermy and wearable oddities” made from ethically sourced insects and animals. Products include jewelry, framed art and whole specimens preserved by various methods.
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Question of the Day By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 14, 2021
Some businesses from bike shops to furniture stores to fitness companies have gotten an unexpected boost amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has shuttered or slowed many enterprises across the country.
Wolf Herrera-Davila, a mechanic at Germantown Cycles Bicycle Shop in Maryland, described the past year as “absolutely crazy,” with bikes being sold out and the shop seeing a major boom in demand for repair services. At one point the shop had to stop taking service orders because the staff couldn’t handle the volume of requests, he said.