Columns
Time to celebrate teachers
As I travel around Ohio visiting schools, I see great teaching happening everywhere — a teacher in Swanton bringing history to life through inte...
Tree lawns and right of ways
The Village of Swanton completed its plantings for 2018 and it was a very successful season.There were 27 trees placed in a development which had no s...
Fighting for Ohio GM workers
If you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work — people like the workers at Lordstown.That’s why Senator Portman and ...
The Twisted Twig
We all gather our life lessons from many sources. Some from our parents and some from our grandparents. Some are passed down and assumed to be true. S...
The Twisted Twig
Looks like it will soon be the “end of days” for most of our unwanted invasive friends, the Gypsy Moths. Sometime this month, when the wea...
The Twisted Twig
Some of our best friends in the landscape are our mature trees. Tall, stately, shade giving, they provide a sense of security and permanence. Surveyor...
The Twisted Twig
Just like every other media at this time of the year, we thought it would be a nice opportunity to do an accounting of what the Swanton Tree Commissio...
December 11th, 2017 updated: December 12th, 2017. |
The Twisted Twig
It’s starting to get cold and our trees are ready to go to sleep for a few months. Believe it or not it’s planting season Well, for trees ...
The Twisted Twig
After reading The Twisted Twig over the last year, you might be asking just who is the Swanton Tree Commission and what does it mean to me and the com...
The Twisted Twig – A Homeowners Guide to Urban Forestry
In Mid July, I received an email from a friend at the Ohio DNR Division of Forestry. She had gotten a call from a local resident who is sensitive to s...
