This Months Featured Articles2024-03-27T19:27:50-04:00

This Month’s Featured Articles…

PUERTO RICAN STRAYS GET A NEW LEASE ON LIFE

When Melissa Smith and her son Jake were on vacation in Puerto Rico in 2019, the last thing they expected was to bring home three stray dogs.  “We knew the stray animal situation was bad in Puerto Rico, but I don’t think we realized just how bad,” she said. “We got lost one of the days we were there and ended up at a deserted beach on Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba, which is a big dumping ground for dogs and cats.”  According to the SATO [...]

By |March 4th, 2024|Featured Article|

Animal Smarts

My name is Lily and I am a dog. Yes, it’s my real name, but I do my best to keep up with whatever Grampy calls me, be that Willie, Shorty, Beans, or Stinkweed (I unequivocally do not stink, unlike the other doggy here, who smells like a dead goat half the time). Sometimes, he calls me The Brains of the Operation, although that gets to be a mouthful, and I pretty much cease listening after “the brains.” Apparently, I am all of those things [...]

By |March 4th, 2024|Featured Article|

HAWTHORNE VALLEY FARMSCAPE ECOLOGY PROGRAM – THE SPACE BETWEEN

Columbia County’s landscape is represented by farming and nature. We tend to look at those twin features of the area as distinct, separated by fences, stone walls, and field borders. Where the corn stops is the end of the farm, and where the trees start is the beginning of the woods. Yet, the animals, insects, trees, and plant life don’t see things quite that way.   Working to expose the permeable and overlapping borders of farmland, meadow, woodland, and wetland is the Farmscape Ecology Program.  FEP [...]

By |March 4th, 2024|Featured Article|

WITH LOVE

Love is in the air! This month it’s all about passion, the color red, paper heart cut-outs, and cupids drawing their arrows. In the days leading up to Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14, partners search for the ideal gifts to express their devotion and convey their love. In the busyness of the season, many forget the history of this holiday.   Valentine’s Day occurs every February 14 in the United States and in other destinations worldwide. On this day, loved one’s exchange [...]

By |January 31st, 2024|Featured Article|

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? (OR, HOW WERE YOU MISLED TODAY?)

On May 29, 1780, subsequent to the fall of Charleston, SC, to the British less than three weeks earlier, Abraham Buford’s Patriot forces suffered an overwhelming defeat at the hand of British commander Banastre Tarleton’s men at Waxhaws, SC. When they attempted to surrender, a number of Buford’s troops were attacked and killed by Tarleton’s men. While the British may have carried the battlefield on that occasion, what would soon become known as Buford’s Massacre ultimately resulted in a propaganda boo-boo that overshadowed any momentary [...]

By |January 31st, 2024|Featured Article|
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