City Hall trees get some needed TLC
ELLSWORTH Happy trees, happy bees. Happy residents, too.
Come mid-May, pollinators dart among the pink blossoms of the crab apple trees surrounding the City Hall parking lot. Passers-by glance up and admire the show. But several decades after Ellsworth American reporter Jack Wiggins spearheaded their planting, the trees are showing their age. To that end, Ellsworth resident and former legislator Ruth Foster teamed up with the Ellsworth Garden Club to raise money for a revitalization project. It got underway Tuesday when a crew from Atlantic Landscape Construction began pruning the 24 trees. Seven that are dead or too far gone to be salvaged will be replaced.
Beauticians and hairdressers in Stamford, Rutland and Market Deeping prepare to open on April 12
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There can be few people reading this who have not at least heard of the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who so terrorized the town and the surrounding area between November 1966 and December 1967, and whose diabolical exploits were chronicled in the 2002 hit Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere:
The Mothman Prophecies, so named after the book of the same title written by Mothman authority John Keel. A devil-like, winged monster with glowing, red eyes, Mothman’s appearance came quite literally out of nowhere and, some say, culminated in high tragedy and death. But what was the Mothman of Point Pleasant? And how did the legend begin? To answer those questions we have to go back to the dark night of November 12, 1966, when five grave-diggers working in a cemetery in the nearby town of Clendenin were shocked to see what they described as a “brown human shape with wings” rise out of the thick, surrounding trees and soar off into the distance.
It’s been a long nine months for 91-year-old Eileen Costello.
Quarantined since March at her Gulf Breeze nursing home, Bay Breeze Senior Living and Rehabilitation Center, Costello hasn’t been able to socialize with her friends or see her family since the start of the pandemic.
But on a sunny Tuesday morning with a small shot to the arm, Costello got her first taste of relief and safety in a long time.
“This means that I won’t get sick and die,” Costello said with a smile. “I’m feeling good. I don’t know. I’m a silly old lady.”