MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — On a sunny fall morning, children wearing helmets and backpacks gathered with their parents in Montclair, New Jersey, for a group bicycle ride to two local elementary schools. Volunteers in orange safety vests made sure everyone assembled in a neighborhood shopping ...
WASHINGTON — Don’t lose sleep over headlines linking melatonin to heart failure. That’s the message after some scary-sounding reports about a preliminary study involving the sleep-related supplement. It raised questions about the safety of long term use of melatonin for ...
NEW YORK — You keep your trusty reusable bottle filled with only clear, delicious water. Do you still need to wash it? Experts say reusable bottles get grubby no matter what liquid they’re filled with, and it’s important to clean them regularly. Water bottles pick up germs from our ...
What comes to mind when you think of health care? Maybe it’s an appointment with your primary care provider or getting an immunization. You might also benefit from health care in ways you didn’t expect, thanks to a small but mighty team - LMH Health Community Outreach and ...
If you're like most well-intentioned gardeners, you might give a lot of thought to planting the "right" plants to nourish pollinators and other wildlife, with nectar, pollen, seeds and fruit. But have you given much thought to those animals' habitat? In addition to sustenance, beneficial ...
More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy, but yours doesn't have to go to waste. Experts told us your pumpkins can be eaten, composted or even fed to animals. Here's how. Cooking with pumpkin waste If you're ...
There may have been a 20-foot-tall skeleton on your next-door neighbor's lawn and zombies in the yard across the street, but the real horrors often lie in unmarked graves in the gardens of those you least suspect — maybe even your own. I'll be the first to admit there have been a few frights ...
It's the end of the gardening season, and those of us who've endured a less-than-perfect layout may be itching to move shrubs around. But proper timing is imperative. I inadvertently planted a Clethra bush too close to a peach tree, and their intertwining branches have been taunting me all ...
NEW YORK — Andrew Zimmern and Barton Seaver are what you'd call seafood fanatics. Or blue food evangelists. They want us to eat more things from the water, even first thing in the morning. "Seafood for breakfast is delicious," says Zimmern, a chef, writer and TV host. Seaver, a chef and ...
More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy, but yours doesn't have to go to waste. Experts told us your pumpkins can be eaten, composted or even fed to animals. Here's how. Cooking with pumpkin waste If you're ...
If you've ever wandered into the cheese section with the innocent intent of "just picking up some mozzarella," you know it's not that simple. What was once a single white orb in plastic wrap is now an entire category. Fresh, low-moisture, smoked, buffalo, burrata — mozzarella takes many ...
NEW YORK — Some flavor crazes flirt with us and fade. Others stay and make themselves at home. It's too soon to tell for sure, but the Dubai chocolate movement seems to have put down roots and is spreading at a brisk clip. The sweet flavors and thick texture that have made Dubai chocolate ...
A downtown Lawrence pop-up gallery opened Friday to celebrate — and offer for sale — the work of longtime local artist Louis Copt, who died this year at age 76. The gallery, at 812 Massachusetts St., includes a collection of prints and original works from Copt, who was known for his ...
Friday, Nov. 7 Resume Workshop, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Health Insurance Enrollment Assistance, 1-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Holiday Open Barn, 2-6 p.m., Historic Taylor Barn, 1827 East 1150 Road. 30-plus local artists, holiday ...
Taste of Lawrence returns Thursday, with a wider array of vendors and businesses attending the event than ever before. The Taste of Lawrence event has gone on for over 40 years, said Jared Martin, the director of events for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce which hosts the event, and its goal ...
A documentary about the rematriation of a sacred red rock from a park in downtown Lawrence to Indigenous land will be screened at the University of Kansas on Saturday, with hopes the showing keeps the story alive. The Spencer Museum of Art will host a free screening of the documentary ...
Whether you know it for its train or its swimming pool or its basketball court and playground equipment, the park running for two blocks between Kentucky and Tennessee streets has been through a lot. Often referred to as “Train Park” in reference to the No. 1073 locomotive on its grounds, ...
Most of the rural schools in Douglas County are identified by a name as well as a number. An exception to this norm is “No. 6.” Goldie Piper Daniels, in her 1974 history of the educational buildings in our county, notes that the name “Crutchfield” was found attached to No. 6 on an ...
On the east side of Iowa Street, between 19th and 23rd streets, stands the United States Army Reserve Training Center, which bears the name of Samuel J. Churchill. Churchill is one of two Medal of Honor recipients to have been Lawrence residents and to be buried here. Churchill was ...
On the east side of the 700 block of Vermont Street, you can see a small bronze plaque on a brick building at about eye level. It tells of a First Methodist Church that once stood there, which was built in 1857 and was used as morgue following Quantrill’s Raid on Aug. 21, 1863. More than ...
