Sean Ball is a member of the Ulster Scottish Pipe Band which took home two top prizes at a recent Glasgow competition.
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The Garden Lady started off with a postcard from trees, and C.L. Fornari's guest today was Scott Lajoie Communications Director of the Buzzards Bay Coalition. They spoke about significant trees. Callers were wondering about planting garlic, shrub recommendations, beefing up a lawn, and ground covers for "socks and shoes" around shrubs.
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We round up the week's local news with our region's leading journalists.
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This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about the latest unusual visitor to local waters. A cubera snapper, estimated at 40 pounds, found its way to Nantucket where it was caught by a 14-year-old angler and released.
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We talk with Martha’s Vineyard historian and author Tom Dresser about two of his most recent books.
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This week on the Local Food Report: it’s a duel of appetites in a new documentary about delicious but destructive green crabs.
The Point
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We talk with Martha’s Vineyard historian and author Tom Dresser about two of his most recent books.
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We talk about how to practice skillful uncertainty in an era of epidemic unknowns.
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We’ll discuss collections and exhibits, and we’ll talk about how museums offer community engagement and provide context for what is happening in our region today.
NPR Stories
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The Alternative for Germany party has a strong lead in a regional election, but it is unclear if it will be able to form Germany's's first far-right state government since WWII, exit polls indicate.
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Maine's hospitality and agricultural industries in particular rely on visa workers.
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Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.
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U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held meetings in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Sunday, a day after lengthy conversations with Russian President Putin in Moscow.
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Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination — and helpful tools to overcome it — with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination.