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Skunk cabbage has tiny blooms on what's called a spadix, hidden within a large red leathery, leaf-like structure called a spathe. It sometimes blooms even with snow on the ground.

Outdoors column: How early-bloomers witch hazel and skunk cabbage got their strange names

March 17, 2021 at 1:33 p.m.

Each winter, when I want to see the first blooming shrubs in northern Illinois, I look for witch hazels. Magically, these tiny yellow and red flowers sometimes appear as early...

Dunn Museum, Grayslake Heritage Center post new exhibits

March 16, 2021 at 2:43 p.m.

Photos of war veteran Janice Christiansen, who grew up in Waukegan, inspired women in the military exhibit at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County in Libertyville. The Bess...

Food pantry to grow hydroponic and aquaponic vegetables

March 15, 2021 at 1:40 p.m.

Hope Collective, a Lake Zurich church, has been feeding some 200 families a week through its food pantry. In April, the church and the nonprofit Growing Healthy People/Grow Well Farms...

Spinach, lettuce, Swiss chard and other greens grow in Win Goodridge's hydroponic basement garden.

Hydroponics a growing trend for raising food year-round in Lake County

March 15, 2021 at 5:10 p.m.

On a cold, windy day, Win Goodridge went to his basement to get some fresh chard and lettuces from his garden. His is an indoor, hydroponic garden, which requires no...

Duo blend voices, folk harp, mandocello for virtual concert

March 10, 2021 at 11:26 a.m.

Long ago as young adults, Curtis Teague and Loretta Simonet met on a California beach. She played guitar. He had a mandocello. They sat on a log, played and sang...

Naval Station Great Lakes women hope to take advantage of greater opportunities now available

March 4, 2021 at 12:29 p.m.

Kelsie McCown hopes to be one of the first female Navy SEALS in history. For now, though, she's excited to be training in a submarine, a job that only opened...

A yellow-bellied sapsucker has drilled these holes into a tree to get sap inside to drip out and into its hungry mouth.

Outdoors column: Sap is flowing for humans, birds and butterflies

March 4, 2021 at 9:39 a.m.

Recent sunny and warm days, with temperatures dipping below freezing at night, are causing nature to seemingly defy gravity. With those conditions, sap stored in tree roots in winter starts...

Scottish bagipe rockers Red Hot Chilli Pipers perform virtually for CLC March 12

March 3, 2021 at 9:36 a.m.

They wear red socks and black kilts. They play bagpipes. And they rock. They're the Red Hot Chilli Pipers and though they hail from Scotland, they'll be at your virtual...

Pat Carry plants oaks and maples at Waukegan High School.

Fate of centuries-old Waukegan oak tree unclear after being pruned in the name of progress

March 2, 2021 at 2:45 p.m.

The bur oak tree on the corner of Green Bay Road and Grand Avenue in Waukegan was alive and growing before European settlers had even arrived in the area, then...

Virtual CLC faculty art represents diversity in culture, color, medium

February 22, 2021 at 3:01 p.m.

Robert Lossmann, a painting, watercolor and sculpture instructor at CLC, created this watercolor called, "Mr. Potatohead Virus," in response to the pandemic. As Ann Rintz began opening the packages of...

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