On today's program C.L. talks about some of the garden maintenance that you might want to do right now, and what you can or should ignore. C.L. talks with Dave Burton, maker of the Burton Cape Cod Weeder about precision weeding, and goes on to list some of the need to do, the nice to do, and the NUTS to do fall garden tasks. Listeners called about assorted topics including groundcovers, dying ivy, and moving plants before construction.

A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.

In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history, as hundreds of thousands of people raced west in pursuit of sudden wealth, reinvention, and power.

Tautog or blackfish are native to the Western Atlantic from Nova Scotia down to South Carolina. They can be tricky to catch with a hook and line, because they like to live in rocky areas or old ship wrecks.

The oldest commercial shellfish hatchery on the East Coast is under new ownership as of this past summer. Aquacultural Research Corporation in Dennis sells more than one hundred million seed shellfish each year.

The U.S. has no national law for paid parental leave. But in states that do, more dads are using the benefit, sometimes more than moms. The change comes as Americans say having kids is unaffordable.

As they look to win the Senate, Democrats are hoping that independent candidates in Nebraska and Montana can help them topple Republicans in a part of the country where their own brand is hurting.

While protests in France have claimed most international attention, large demonstrations also rocked many European cities Saturday from Milan to Rome to Madrid, Lisbon and Tirana.