Volunteers needed to bring back the blues
Last weekend they offered instructions on how to builds bluebird nest boxes, next the Trustees of Reservations will show volunteers how to watch over and tend to the boxes. On Saturday, March 9, the Trustees will offer a training session for volunteers interested in helping to monitor bluebird nest boxes this coming spring. The Trustees [...]
Read More →Tiverton Christmas tree recycling begins
TIVERTON —The Christmas tree recycling program in Tiverton has sprung to life again. During the weekdays of Jan. 7-11 and Jan. 14-18, Tiverton residents are being asked to place their discarded Christmas trees curbside, adjacent to their trash, on the same day as the normal trash collection, where they will be picked up by the town’s [...]
Read More →East Providence Police net traffic funds, ready car seat installation program
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence Police Department recently announced the receipt of over $29,000 in State Office of Highway Safety grant monies as well as the start of a child car seat installation/instruction program. The Department garnered $29,610 from the highway safety office for use in speed and impaired driver enforcement details in addition [...]
Read More →The what-nows and what-fors of fall gardening
I don’t think my husband would accuse me of being garden-obsessed and compulsively crazed this time of year. Not that he isn’t patient with me in the spring when dinner gets delayed until right after I’ve trenched another 15 feet of lawn and planted a few things, but if I called myself lazy in October [...]
Read More →Barrington funny bug found at Kent Street tennis courts
On Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 2, a tennis instructor who was giving a lesson at the Kent Street courts in Barrington made a strange discovery: a large orange caterpillar with very odd coloring crawling across the court. He put the caterpillar on his racket and showed it to two women playing on the adjacent court. The [...]
Read More →Monarchs, hummingbirds are heading south
Earlier in the month whole days went by between hummingbird sightings and I thought they were gone for good. But then one morning I spotted a little female or maybe a weightless youth back-and-forthing around the porterweed’s (Stachytarpheta mutabilis) bow ties. I saw her again the next day, and on and off for a couple [...]
Read More →Westport River Watershed offers rain barrels
WESTPORT — The Westport River Watershed Association (WRWA) still has 55-gallon rain barrels available to the public for $30, which is more than half off retail price. These barrels, when hooked up to downspouts and drains, provide an ample supply of water that can be used for lawns, gardens, flower pots, car washing and other [...]
Read More →Experts to teach composting at Westport Town Farm
WESTPORT — The Trustees of Reservations will host its annual Composting Workshop at the Westport Town Farm on Saturday, September 22 at 1 p.m. Farm Manager Steve Connors will be joined by local gardening experts, to provide tips and demonstrations for helping to convert those garden leftovers and kitchen scraps into healthful additions to your [...]
Read More →Garden clubs prepare September Light
Friday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., “September Light” a joint flower show will be held at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, 865 Main Road, Westport. Free and open to the public, it is sponsored by The Garden Club of Buzzards Bay and the Little Compton Garden Club, and features judged floral designs, photography entries, and [...]
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