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.

We round up the week's local news with our region's leading journalists.

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.

We talk with Martha’s Vineyard historian and author Tom Dresser about two of his most recent books.

This week on the Local Food Report: it’s a duel of appetites in a new documentary about delicious but destructive green crabs.

Monte Wiederhold runs a trucking company in northwest Ohio. He explains how problems overseas affect businesses at home.

One of the world's largest logistics companies plans to fit one of its ships with a strange type of sail, the latest in a small but growing number of cleaner sailing shipping vessels.

Ticks and the diseases they carry are a growing problem nationwide. As tick season ends, a closer look at what researchers are learning about how ticks survive and spread disease.