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We cooks haven't gotten past St. Pat's Day yet and we're already on to a more important culinary occasion: Easter.

Batteries Plus has plans to open its first metro-east store.

Q. I lose my squash plants to squash bugs every year. Do they overwinter? Is there a way to eliminate them?

"How about that Sandra Bullock?" a friend said to me after this year's Academy Award nominations came out. "Did you see her big movie?"

Often, it's my imagination's landing spot when I close my eyes to think happy thoughts.

Q. When spring arrives, so do the wrens. I have five birdhouses. A single wren will come first and check out all the houses and select one most suitable for a mate. The wren then either calls for or goes out to find a mate. Here's the problem: All my life (79 years), I was convinced it was the male wren who comes first. But I have a female friend who swears it's the female. Who's right? Also, does the pair then collaborate to build the nest?

When Alice Philipp was born, her mom and dad, Michael and May O'Day, were hoping for a girl on St. Patrick's Day.