The Howard County Conservancy welcomes Wednesday morning drop-in gardening volunteers to help maintain thematic and native plant gardens on conservancy property, Mount Pleasant Farm, in Woodstock. All levels of experience are welcome.

Representatives of Williams Creek Consulting, an Indianapolis-based ecological engineering firm, made a presentation at Monday's Grandview Heights City Council meeting about how the city might be able to encourage the use of rain gardens to help alleviate storm water flooding.

HACKETTSTOWN, NJ-Nedeller Properties LLC is selling 120-unit Riverside Gardens apartment complex for just under $10.2 million--or approximately $85,000 per unit. The buyer--locally based Yellow Rose--plans to continue to operate the property--211 Mountain Ave.--as rental units.

STEPHEN Brian Elliott was a drug-addled petty criminal with a death wish. Cornered and desperate, he could have surrendered to armed police surrounding his de facto wife's Parafield Gardens house.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- Colorado Golf Club, which opened for play in 2007 as one of the premier new courses in America, has been selected as the site of the 71st Senior PGA Championship, the most historic and prestigious event in senior golf. The Championship will be contested May 24-30, 2010, at the course in Parker, Colo., approximately 25 minutes southeast of Denver.

Hillsboro has plenty of elbow room to grow, and property owners to the north face the prospect with glee or dread Benjamin Brink/The OregonianAlan Schaaf, a grass seed farmer who has grown up living and farming on the Helvetia area...

In response to Ruth Ann Dailey's column on deer ("Why not let property owners decide what to do about deer?" Nov.

In response to Ruth Ann Dailey's column on deer ("Why not let property owners decide what to do about deer?" Nov. 6): Killing deer has only a temporary effect on deer populations.