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What a gift to be a gardener at this time of year! For most other people, winter just grinds on, with dingy snowdrifts melting into puddles that will freeze into ice slicks. But gardeners don’t ...

The Western U.S. is experiencing what meteorologists refer to as a "snow drought," with only 379,000 acres covered by snow on ...

Private music lessons will resume this spring after a semester-long hiatus due to a staffing vacancy in the director of ...

Oceanside and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are recommending that the Oceanside Harbor channel be dredged twice in 2026 to ...

‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the yard, Not a plant is stirring, the soil nearly frozen hard. Tired gardeners are nestled, all snug in their beds, While visions of dormancy danced in ...

Typically, morning lows start near 50ºF, while afternoon highs peak near 70ºF. Temps will be warm again this weekend. Saturday starts with patchy fog transitioning to a somewhat muggy afternoon with ...

The first warm day of spring is a liar. It tricks you into thinking you can charge outside, dig a bit, “freshen things up,” and have a perfect garden by the weekend. Then you step on your lawn and it ...

One of the season’s leading themes was “fashion as feeling”—a fitting sentiment not only captured in the movement of the clothes (the fringe! the feathers! the frothy lace!) as designers experimented ...

The labor of love that is working in the garden is a year round activity. And getting some of that work done in the fall and winter can really set up your spring garden to be more beautiful than ever.

Karen is a writer and editor with more than 25 years of print and digital media experience working in newspapers, educational publishing, marketing, nonprofits, and magazines. A winter garden is a ...

In this episode of In The Kitchen With Matt, I will show you how to make fresh Vietnamese Spring Rolls or Gỏi cuốn also known as Summer Rolls. But not to be confused with classic spring rolls which ...