Garden District Grows in Its 4th Year at the Oregon State Fair (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Garden District Grows in Its 4th Year at the Oregon State Fair (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Budding gardeners and plant lovers from all over are invited to explore the newly expanded Garden District at the 2006 Oregon State Fair. More than 10,000 plants from Hart's Nursery will cover 2 lush acres on the state fairgrounds.

The ABCs of Back-to-School Savings (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The smell of a new textbook.

Cornell in the News (Cornell News Service)
A sampling of news coverage featuring Cornell and people at Cornell. Alpha Fraternity Brothers, Locking Arms for Change Washington Post - July 29, 2006 Alpha Phi Alpha, the nations's first African-American fraternity, which was founded at Cornell University in 1906, held it's centennial celebration in Washington D.C. last weekend.

Garden briefs (Tallahassee Democrat)
Go on a "Night Pond Prowl" from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday with Chris Bittle at Birdsong Nature Center, 2106 Meridian Road, Thomasville, Ga., and get an introduction to aquatic ecology principles.

Anna Mae Chesnes (News-Herald)
Funeral services for Anna Mae Chesnes, 91, of Willowick, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at McMahon-Coyne-Vitantonio Funeral Home, 6330 Center St., (Route 615, north of Route 2), in Mentor.

Police arrest nude man who broke into home, released birds, attacked car (Daily Press)
A naked 30-year-old Virginia Beach man was arrested and charged with burglary and the release of about 15 small chickens and four pigeons from a home in south Suffolk.