Volunteer Tomatoes

by | Sep 11, 2013 | Talk Dirt to Me

Seed catalogs sell a lot of F1 hybrids: crosses between two inbred lines. Inbreeding sounds pretty icky (I hope), but in garden plants we don’t really worry about it. Inbred lines are kept genetically isolated: they’re not allowed to have funny business...

City Loses Former Mayor Dimauro

by | Sep 11, 2013 | On Springfield

Former Mayor Teddy Dimauro will be waked tomorrow evening, then buried on Wednesday after a funeral mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Dimauro, a lawyer who served as mayor from 1978 to 1984 (and, before that, as a School Committee member and city councilor) died last...

From Our Readers

by | Sep 11, 2013 | News

The Real Terrorists As we observe the 12th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and other sites, I believe we’re fighting the wrong war on terror. The horror and destruction we’re heading for will be unimaginably worse than what...

Referendum

by | Sep 11, 2013 | News

Should the Massachusetts Legislature repeal the law that applies the 6.25 percent sales tax to computer services?