Landscaping Equipment Thefts Caught On Camera
Thieves caught on camera steal landscaping equipment in southern New Hampshire, striking one store twice in four days, police say.

Complaint prompts company to scale back watering of ramp's landscaping
THE PROBLEM: With increasingly tough water restrictions, drought-tolerant landscaping is the environmentally conscious way to go in San Diego when spending public money.

Landscaping Atoms ?C? finalists at Silver Stick
This past weekend, St. Marys Landscaping Atom girls competed in the 9th annual Saugeen Shores Women?s Regional Silver Stick tournament. The tourney was played at several centres in the Port Elgin/Southampton area.

Collier commissioners discuss how to use dwindling landscaping funds
Collier County landscaping plans got a slight design change Tuesday, after some North Naples residents protested proposed allocations. Transportation Director Norm Feder had proposed $1.8 million for three landscaping projects in the upcoming year: two phases of Vanderbilt Beach Road completion, and Rattlesnake-Hammock Road, from Polly Avenue to Collier Boulevard. Not so fast, residents said.

Commission OKs plans to expand National Aviary
The Historic Review Commission yesterday approved design plans for an expansion of the National Aviary contingent on a landscaping collaboration between the designers and the Allegheny Commons Initiative.

State allows hunters to shoot feral hogs
Hunters who like a little pork in their venison sausage can get both in Gloucester County, where for the first time the state Department of Environmental Protection has issued a blanket permit allowing hunters to shoot feral hogs that have been rooting up crops and landscaping.

Capitol Visitor Center Transforms East Side With Unsettling Pomposity
Over time, the U.S. Capitol has taken on two very different faces. What was once deemed the back side of the building -- facing the Mall -- became a grand, ceremonial front, with the addition of dramatic stairs, terraces and landscaping that emphasized its prominence on a hill. To the east, the o...

Gas leak forces Quincy High to close
Quinch High School?s students and staff members were dismissed for the day after a landscaping crew accidentally cut a natural-gas main outside the building on Tuesday morning.

Irrigation plans could be required for water service
New commercial developments within Nipomo Community Services District boundaries may soon be required to submit irrigation and landscaping plans for review before will-serve letters will be issued for water service.

Completing Eagle Scout trifecta
Braving blustery wind and bitter cold on Saturday, Nov. 22, at Oak Meadows Field in Rockaway Township, Peter Van Eck, members of his Boy Scout Troop 113 and other volunteers, finished his Eagle Scout project. His two older brothers are Eagle Scouts. The group was beautifying the entrance to the field with landscaping and a new sign, work that was spread over two weekends. His brother, Grant, 23, ...

Update: Victim of Landscaping Fatal Accident Identified
UPDATE @ 4:55 p.m. Sunday: Police released the victim's name as Thomas Guy Rayle, 45, of Randleman. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) ? A landscaping worker was killed Saturday while on the job shortly before noon Saturday at 4125 North Patterson Avenue, according to police. Thomas Rayle, 45, of Randleman, reportedly fell into a commercial truck that grinds up and distributes mulch. The victim, ...

State tries to reduce noise at loop link
GREENSBORO ? Highway officials are moving ahead with their response to complaints about the newest section of the city?s Urban Loop, but residents are still waiting for results. The initiative includes redirecting Interstate 40 motorists away from the loop, planting more intensive landscaping than usual along parts of the new road, and negotiating with home owners who say their houses have ...

Quincy High evacuated after gas leak
By Globe Staff Classes have been canceled for the day at Quincy High School following the discovery of a natural gas leak this morning, a school official said. The leak occurred after a crew doing landscaping work outside the school...

Labor Pains: St. Louis landscapers worry they'll be short Mexican workers to mow lawns and bag leaves
For the past nine years, Lee Mueller, owner of Reliable Landscaping and Tree Care in south St. Louis County, has hired half a dozen laborers through the government's guest worker program. Mueller says some of his imported staff, whom he calls his "amigos," used to work as dentists in Mexico. Now, fo...

Homicide suspect was landscaper
Bensalem police said Monday that the Bensalem-based company Green Tree Landscaping employed the illegal immigrant who allegedly used a company pickup truck to strike and kill a bartender outside a Knights Road bar on Saturday night.

Shore Stewards help protect environment
WARM BEACH ? Dave and Anna Porter turned environmental stewardship into an art form. The Porters, who live in Warm Beach, learned about the Shore Steward program at the Stanwood-Camano Fair in 2006, and joined because they were passionate about protecting the shore environment. Shore Stewards learn how to manage water runoff, minimize erosion risks and make landscaping choices for a coastal ...

Safety precautions this holiday season
La Crosse, WI (WXOW)- Tom Zieja with Z's Lawn and Landscaping has been in the tree selling and landscaping business for close to 30 years.

City of Wichita approves arena area TIF after adding $10 million for parking
Wichita City Council members approved a massive plan this morning to add lighting and landscaping and repave streets in a 16-block area around Intrust Bank Arena. It will be paid for with tax increment financing, a controversial tool that uses new property tax payments to pay off the bonds that pay for construction. The plan was expected to pass since it is the product of a compromise between ...

Miniaturists display streets portraying Christmas scenes
Wee Small Folks Miniature Club recently displayed miniature houses and offered a workshop at the McAuley Center, setting up a street of miniatures, complete with landscaping and streetlights. The miniature Christmas tree workshop was an opportunity to create miniature Christmas trees which were decorated with tiny ornaments, tree skirt and wrapped presents with bows.

Bigger, better home for the Georgia Dome?
In the future, the Atlanta Falcons could play in a new Georgia Dome south of its current home while the front door to the Georgia World Congress Center would move to Marietta Street in a giant new building.