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During Oglebay Institute’s Maple Sugaring Day Saturday, March 20, nature guides will lead groups through Oglebay’s sugar bush, stopping along the trail to discover maple sugaring techniques from its earliest history through present day. Pictured is a group of hikers at Maple Sugaring Day 2009.
The maple sugaring season across the local region is getting off to a strong start thanks to warmer days and cold nights, and area residents have a menu offering various types of activities to join in on over the next few weeks. Most of these annual events and activities not only offer a look into how and why maple sugaring practices and products are important, but will serve it up with a generous side order of a fact and fun filled connection to American history, courtesy of the many products whose origins are rooted in the wealth of resources housed in the Sugar Maple tree. The annual harvest comes as winter moves into spring: as days are warmer and nights remain cold or cool. Collecting this initially watery looking substance can be accomplished in several ways, some more sophisticated than others. Some use a simple tap and bucket system, others have moved to sophisticated pipe systems which often utilize gravity to move the liquid from the trees to a storage unit.
» Full StoryBoredom busters!
“I’m bored! There’s nothing to do around here!”
In recent weeks such choruses of frustration have been increasingly heard by parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, babysitters of all ages and even kind neighbors who volunteered to watc...
Food, fun, festivities
WHEELING - The 14th Annual Wheeling Celtic Celebration held at the Wheeling Artisan Center is scheduled this year for a one day event on Saturday, March 6.
» Full StoryRhythm of the Night
A healthy heart rhythm: it has come to represent life itself.
When there is silence – the absence of a heart rhythm – a heart has stopped, and the light that was symbolic of its very life force has gone dark.
Crosscurrents 2010 now open at Stifel
WHEELING - Attracting some of the finest artwork from the tri-state region for more than 30 years, Oglebay Institute’s annual Crosscurrents Exhibition is now open to the public at the Stifel Fine Arts Center in Wheeling.
» Full StoryA patchwork of love
ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The quilt show, “Celebrating Milestones by the Piecing of Fabric,” will be on display at Ohio University Eastern Campus’ art gallery Monday, Feb. 15 – Thursday, March 11.
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Mr Emmerling Goes To Spring Training
Building Comes Down
Tigers Win
High Water - March 2010
Celtic Festival
St. C. Chamber Legislative Luncheon
Sunrise 3-11-2010