Tag Archives: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Tick Tock

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At first, Hamdenite Lisa Maloney thought she had tendonitis in her wrists. But when the pain spread to her right knee and then her ankle, she realized something was terribly wrong. …

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Tree Alarm

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Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight have long since routed New Haven’s native elms and chestnuts. Now American beech trees—a keystone species in eastern forests, distinguished by their smooth, elephant-gray bark and leaves lined with spike-tipped veins—are under siege…

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Smoke Signals

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The air is spiced with smoke inside The Owl Shop, where patrons are puffing on their favorite cigars. It’s a vestige of an earlier New Haven, where…

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This Week in New Haven (August 2 – 8)

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This first week in August musters national and local pride as well as live music both outside the box and just plain outside.

It also signals the beginning of Daily Nutmeg’s annual Summer Reading Month. …

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Growing Pains

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Some projects require a lifetime of patience. Take, for example, the attempt to rescue the American chestnut tree. …

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Bright and Early

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You’re not imagining things. …

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Smoke Signals

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The air is spiced with smoke inside The Owl Shop on College Street, where patrons are puffing on their favorite cigars. It’s a vestige of an earlier New Haven, where…

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Farm’s Reach

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For 109 years, almost without interruption, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station’s Lockwood Farm in Hamden has…

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Laurel History

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Connecticut’s state flower, the mountain laurel, blooms but once a year…

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This Week in New Haven (August 6 – 12)

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American exclamations start the week. Then Puerto Rican and British ones finish it. …

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