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By Ellen Nibali and Special to The Baltimore Sun | December 17, 2009
Question: I hesitate to put up a Christmas tree this year, despite having three-year-old twins who would love to have one, due to my concern about stinkbugs living in it. This fall/winter, my house was infested with stinkbugs. I am not knowledgeable enough to determine which pesticide is environmentally safe to use in the house. What extermination company knows how to get rid of this bug in order to save Christmas? Answer: It is not necessary to hire a pest control company to deal with your marmorated stinkbugs.
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AEGIS STAFF REPORT | December 22, 2011
Even though there was no formal lighting ceremony this year, an Edgewood couple wants to remind their fellow residents that the community's Christmas tree is alive, well and fully decorated. Sam and Donna Gibson, longtime residents active in the community, say they made sure the tree near the Edgewood MARC station did not go neglected. Standing next to the tree Thursday morning, the Gibsons wanted to remind everyone that even though there was not an official tree lighting because of construction by the station, the tree is decorated and lit at night for people to come and see. The Gibsons both talked about how grateful they are for the community and the people in it. They said they just wanted to make sure they could spread some holiday cheer.
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By Jill Rosen and The Baltimore Sun | April 19, 2012
What's purple, white and can hang on your tree's blind side? It's a Michael Oher-nament! Hallmark has just released a sneak preview of it's 2012 Keepsake Ornaments -- and the Ravens offensive tackle has made the cut. It's a first time a Raven has become an ornament -- something the Hallmark company considers and honor. "We chose Michael Oher to become a Hallmark Keepsake Ornament because of his ability on the field and the story of what he had to overcome to get there," Hallmark spokewomanm Jaci Twidwell told The Sun. "He's a great ambassador for the Ravens and is an overall good person.
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By Laura Vozzella, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | June 5, 2011
Charles W. St. Clair Sr., an accountant who launched a second career as a Jarrettsville Christmas tree farmer, died May 31 of pneumonia at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. He was 88. Born on a Jarrettsville dairy farm, in the early 19th-century house he would restore and move back to in 1977, Mr. St. Clair was a direct descendant of Luther Jarrett, founder of Jarrettsville. He grew up on the farm but had a career in business before he started moonlighting in the early 1960s as a Christmas tree grower as a way to put his children through college.
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By Elizabeth Large | December 16, 1990
I write this I've just finished reading the entries in the magazine's Holiday Short Fiction Contest, the winners of which will be published next week. One recurring theme this year was the picking out of a Christmas tree. Kids as young as 8 as well as adults wrote about families squabbling over their trees, the children blaming the moms for misshapen trees and so on. But not one entry did I get about how much fun tree shopping is. (Although all the stories end with someone saying, once the tree is in the house and decorated, "This is the best Christmas tree ever!"
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By MIKE BURNS | December 12, 1993
Quick, where is the heart of Maryland's Christmas tree industry?If you guessed somewhere near Oakland or Cumberland out in the mountains of Western Maryland, you're wrong. It's actually in Abingdon. Yes, Abingdon, the suburban development hothouse of Harford County.That's the address of the Maryland Christmas Tree Association, the state association of tree growers which publishes the annual guide to "choose and cut" tree farms where you can select a live Yuletide Tannenbaum, saw it yourself and drag it home in the family buggy.