I’m not going to cry a tear for suburban homeowners who pay through the nose every year for new landscape plantings that are destined to become salad bars for white-tail deer.

Elegant fashions designed by a young area woman will be showcased in a fashion show in September at Shippensburg University.

Massachusetts has seen a 4-fold increase in Lyme disease since 2000. Photo: CDC Areas outside Cape Cod are seeing big increases in Lyme disease, places where the bacterial infection was once considered rare like Charlton and Northborough.

Jack and Marge Dunham staffed an informational booth about lyme disease this summer at the A Leavenworth County Fair.