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Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Paving over historic beauty: A history of the White House Rose Garden that Trump plans to rip up
04-04-2025 10:16 AM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

I wonder how closely Joni Mitchell follows the news. Did the headline “Trump Turns the White House Lawn into a Tesla Showroom” catch her eye? Trump’s craven gesture is about as close as you can get to “paving paradise and putting up a parking lot.”

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Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Gardening symposiums herald spring’s arrival
02-26-2025 3:34 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

I received the announcement of the Western Massachusetts Master Gardener Association (WMMGA)’s spring symposiums earlier this month, when the wind was whipping the falling snow into spiraling towers of white. In early February, it’s hard for the imagination to break through the winter doldrums. Will we ever feel the touch of soft spring breezes or enjoy the sight of green shoots pushing through the cold dark soil? The WMMGA symposiums help us to jostle our gardening passions out of hibernation and into activity, even if only mental.


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: A garden in winter need not be dreary: Plants that will enliven your garden in winter
12-18-2024 1:54 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

It’s not unusual these cold gray days to despair over the appearance of our gardens. It wasn’t so long ago that late-blooming asters and brilliant foliage punctuated the landscape. Now that I’m leaving garden cleanup until spring to help feed and...


Northampton Community Rowing Club closes out season
10-15-2024 8:39 PM

The Northampton Community Rowing Club competed in the Youth Northeast Fall Championship Regatta on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester on Sunday, closing out its season with a handful of amazing achievements.The girls junior novice took first place in the...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Appreciating the aster: The cheerful, abundant flowers will persist until hard frosts set in
10-11-2024 10:03 AM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

Many gardens go drab this time of year after summer flowers have faded away. But in fields and along roadsides, swaths of native asters add explosions of color to the transitioning landscape, with their golden centered, star-shaped flowers ranging...


Northampton Community Rowing fares well at recent regattas
10-02-2024 7:12 PM

The Northampton Community Rowing masters team raced at the Paper City Regatta in Holyoke on Saturday, Sept 28 and at the Green Mountain Head Regatta in Putney, Vt. on Sunday, Sept. 29.At the Green Mountain Head Regatta, Stephen Rondhaler raced a...


Holyoke Hockey Club sees strong demand
09-30-2024 8:05 PM

The Holyoke Hockey Club, a new community-based youth hockey program, announced overwhelming success for its first registration period. The initial goal was to enroll 40 children, but due to unprecedented interest, 54 young players registered, with an...


Northampton Community Rowing competes in regattas
09-24-2024 11:23 PM

On Sept. 7, Northampton Community Rowing youth boats raced in their first regatta of the fall season at the ninth annual Rockrimmon Regatta hosted by the Pioneer Valley Riverfront Club in Springfield. The boys A boat placed first (21:22.1) and the B...


Northampton Community Rowing to “Row for the River” on Sept. 15
09-04-2024 3:40 PM

Northampton Community Rowing is holding a fundraiser “Row for the River” to benefit the Connecticut River Conservancy on Sept. 15 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.Rowers will launch from the docks at the Mount Holyoke Community boathouse and row approximately...


Easthampton’s Saige Harper set to make rowing debut for Team USA at 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris
08-28-2024 2:49 PM

By GARRETT COTE

The 2024 Paralympic Games kicked off in Paris on Wednesday, and will run through next Sunday, Sept. 8 with 22 sports being contested across the week and a half.One sport is of particular interest for residents of Hampshire County and Easthampton.Saige...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: You say tomato: A brief history of the fruit (or vegetable)
08-09-2024 12:36 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

It’s August and in my household that means one thing: local tomatoes. For much of the year, our grocery stores offer tomatoes tough enough to endure machine picking followed by days or weeks in cold storage. Even the more expensive, so-called...


As rowers aim for gold in Paris, Northampton Community Rowing club offers locals a chance on the water
07-30-2024 5:16 PM

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

NORTHAMPTON — While Olympic rowers race at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium outside Paris, Hampshire County rowers are doing their best impression on the Connecticut River.Northampton Community Rowing, a non-profit rowing club with a boathouse...


MAC to add women's rowing upon UMass’ entrance in 2025-26, men's lacrosse to stay in A-10
07-19-2024 3:31 PM

CONNOR PIGNATELLO

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) will add women’s rowing as its 23rd sponsored sport when UMass joins the league in 2025-26. “We're extremely excited about the creation of the MAC Rowing Championships, beginning in the Spring of 2026,” said...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Venture beyond your garden walls: Plant sales and noteworthy gardens to visit this season
05-10-2024 2:56 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

After long weeks of yearning for gardening weather, we’re suddenly inundated by spring. Endless outdoor chores beg for our attention — composting, mulching, edging, scrubbing birdbaths and, at least in my garden beds, pulling out multitudes of maple...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: What good is an herbarium? Herbariums, like Emily Dickinson’s, are an essential resource for scientists
04-05-2024 2:01 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

The word “herbarium” sounds a bit quaint, even antiquated. We may think of Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, which she created during her year at Mount Holyoke in 1847-48. Although she had begun studying plants at age 9 and was helping her mother in the...


Looking at what’s ahead for the rest of the school’s sports once UMass moves to the MAC
03-08-2024 9:45 PM

CONNOR PIGNATELLO

AMHERST – UMass is moving its 21 sports from the Atlantic 10 to the Mid-American Conference, though the Minutemen don’t exactly have a home for every sport in their new conference.Baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Become an educated gardener: Three upcoming symposia will answer all your gardening questions
03-08-2024 9:51 AM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

Most of us humans assume that other creatures experience the world through their senses of sound, taste, smell and touch, the same way we do. But we couldn’t be more wrong, as science writer Ed Yong explains in his fascinating new book, “An Immense...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: A garden is a canvas: “Painting the Modern Garden: From Monet to Matisse” comes to Amherst Cinema
02-08-2024 1:35 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

As the calendar page flips to the short but cruel month of February, I suspect that many gardeners, like me, are getting tired of the somber palette of gray and brown.Just in time to rescue us from seasonal ennui, a wonderful documentary, “Painting...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Thoughts of the garden in winter: Gardening has its discouraging moments, yet we persevere
01-12-2024 12:13 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

There’s not a lot going on in my garden, now blanketed under a foot of snow, to inspire this month’s column. So I took a break from dreaming over the spring promise of seed catalogs and went in search of a soul-satisfying poem about the garden in...


Get Growing: Why crabapple trees are looking sad this year, and what to do about it
10-18-2019 2:15 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

Crabapple trees are one of my favorite ornamental spring trees. A mainstay of the New England landscape, they offer three seasons of interest, plus a handsome branching habit that looks good all winter long, especially when decked with freshly fallen...


Get Growing: Beware the tawny daylily
08-09-2019 12:04 AM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

I have a big patch of daylilies behind my house. They are a disorganized jumble of plants that were given to me along with others that I’ve bought at plant sales, nurseries and farmers markets. I have never paid much attention to this part of the...

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