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En Garde Deer Defense can help stop the deer destruction of your hydrangeas and roses and day-lilies and hostas and geraniums and more

A co-worker of mine recently invested in a beautiful rose at a local garden center. It reminded her of the roses her grandmother used to tend. “I don’t normally spend this kind of money on a plant,” she said. “It really spoke to me. It was beautiful.” She planted the rose with great care, digging the hole extra wide and enhancing the...

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The Gutter Boys will make your gutters ready to receive summer storms

When you live this close to one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, you can count on one thing: major summer storms. And when the downpours come, your gutters need to be ready to handle the intense volume of water to deliver it away from your home’s foundation. One local company can keep your gutters flowing freely whether you want...

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From the music of Rascal Flatts to Billy Joel to Taylor Swift, a free concert series is launching in Green

One of the City of Green’s top amenities is Central Park, which features the Community Hall, a gaga ball pit, a 1-mile walking trail, three ponds, a playground, a splash pad, and, of course, the amphitheater. But since the pandemic, there has not been an organized, concentrated effort to invite people to the amphitheater. That’s changing...

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A Final Thought: A ChatGPT Spring

I did it. I finally did what lazy writers have been doing for months now. I asked ChatGPT to write my column for me. I’m ashamed and embarrassed (my mother raised me better), but also fascinated. I asked the OpenAI system to write a 600-word essay about spring in Northeast Ohio. Two seconds later, here is the opening paragraph of the first...

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Whether you want your gutters cleaned or covered, The Gutter Boys can keep you off the ladder... and your hands out of the muck

When people think of gutter cleaning, they often think of fall leaves. But spring debris has an equal capacity to clog gutters, including flower pods, spent blossoms, maple seeds (some call them helicopters, spinners or whirligigs), and catkins—those golden, pollen-filled strings that fall from oak trees. Gutter cleaning is dirty and...

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