NEWS
By Jon Traunfeld and Ellen Nibali and Jon Traunfeld and Ellen Nibali,Special to the Sun | August 14, 2005
For five years, our pink-flowered magnolia had large black ants on it. Now it also has black and white bees. The leaves are turning black. It gets full sun. Any suggestions? It's likely that your magnolia tree suffers from a scale insect. Magnolias are susceptible to three types. Look for bumps along the 1- to 2-year-old twigs of the tree. Scale insects excrete a sweet substance called honeydew. Honeydew provides an ideal substrate for black sooty mold to develop. Usually foliage blackened by sooty mold is the homeowner's first clue that there is a scale problem.
NEWS
By CASSANDRA A. FORTIN and CASSANDRA A. FORTIN,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | February 19, 2006
Aaliyah Lewis put her books and coat down on a table in the cafeteria at Magnolia Elementary School and munched on animal crackers. "I'm here to learn to read better," said Aaliyah, a fifth-grader at the Joppa school. "I can read now, but I want to learn all the big words and suffixes and stuff like that." She is honing her reading skills in Magnolia's after-school academic programs, which were started as an attempt to boost pupils' performance. Magnolia is one of six schools in Harford that have fallen short of academic requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school was identified by the state four years ago when pupils in special-education programs scored low on state assessment tests.
NEWS
By NANCY O'DONNELL and NANCY O'DONNELL,ALBANY TIMES UNION | May 14, 2006
The magnolia has long been declared by both horticulturists and homeowners to be one of the, if not the, most elegant flowering tree for the spring landscape. And with the show they put on this year, it's hard to disagree. With this past winter being such a mild one, it's been a bumper year for blossoms on this magnificent family of trees. One of the showiest magnolias is the saucer magnolia, also known as Magnolia x soulangiana. This is the tree with the huge purplish-pink blossoms that resemble tea cups in both size (the petals can extend outward 8 to 12-inches)
NEWS
By Marina Sarris and Marina Sarris,Special to The Sun | October 13, 2007
Like many a mystery, this one began with a walk in the woods. Joseph Gochar discovered an unusual tree with 2-foot leaves in the park near his Catonsville home. His curiosity turned him into an amateur botanical detective. He learned the mystery tree was the rare bigleaf magnolia, a species not previously documented in Maryland. His sleuthing eventually helped lead to the recent discovery, in Howard County, of the largest bigleaf magnolia believed to exist in the nation. And there's another mystery: What is this huge specimen doing so far outside its home range in the Southeastern United States?
FEATURES
By Ann Hornaday and Ann Hornaday,SUN FILM CRITIC | January 7, 2000
A heroic sadness weaves its way through "Magnolia," Paul Thomas Anderson's oversized musing on alienation, connectedness and random acts of spiritual grace. While not as fully realized as Anderson's last movie, "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia" is filmed with the same skillful abandon, and takes many more artistic risks. Throwing out all conventional notions of plot and narrative coherence, Anderson instead indulges his love of character. The result is a movie as fascinating for its flaws as for its considerable successes.
NEWS
By Ted Shelsby and Ted Shelsby,SUN STAFF | March 7, 2004
Plans for a controversial and bitterly opposed recycling center near two elementary schools and a middle school in Magnolia have been spiked, according to county officials. The so-called Wiggins project, a plan to locate a waste recycling plant at the Harford Sands Inc. property off Fort Hoyle Road, will not be included in the county's new solid waste plan, said Frank Henderson, deputy director of environmental affairs at the Department of Public Works. "It won't be in the plan at that site," he said.