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Tucked off the main drags of St. Mary’s and I-10 in the middle of Dunbar Springs, among crumbling adobes, sunburnt stucco, and jerry-built front porches, Anita Street Market is…

Meanwhile, back at the plant, Jay focuses on plant efficiencies as well as continuously searching for new end-use markets for the oats they process.

Watermelon seeds are rich in vitamin A. Vitamin A is essential for healthy skin. You should note that Vitamin A, unlike other vitamins, is a combination of substances that include carotenoids. This means it contains antioxidants and therefore can fight the type of free radicals that cause the damage of collagen. Damage to the collagen results in saggy skin which often makes you look older than you are or want to appear to be. Taking in vitamin A also ensures that your skin does not get damaged by the sun. It also ensures that if you are light skinned, you do not suffer the redness that comes with exposure to sunlight for extended periods of time. Vitamin A is also responsible for ensuring healthy skin cell growth. This makes it certain that your skin will remain firm and healthy no matter your age. Vitamin A deficiency has been linked to dry skin that is cracked and more often than not develops wounds.

LOCK HAVEN — Who spends five months out of the year nurturing a normal size pumpkin until it grows into a gigantic one weighing more than 1,000 pounds that has to be removed from the garden with a back hoe to be transported to a pumpkin competition?

In truth, those pesky seeds can be beneficial to your health. So, too, is the rind, so think twice before tossing them out.

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My favorite might be the Nantucket bay scallops ($42), tossed with a chewy, textural mix of potato, hominy and chicos, spiked with a bit of poblano chile and topped with paper-thin slivers of spicy Spanish chorizo. The scallops may be supple, but this dish bites back.

These 4-Ingredient No-Bake Banana Bread Bars by Michele Elizabeth are a no-hassle, quick, healthy snack. They are packed with fiber from the oats, flavor from the cinnamon and bananas, and a sticky, rich, goodness from the dates. These bars are so good that you’ll be hard-pressed to share.

But that climatic handicap doesn’t dampen Young’s enthusiasm, nor his curiosity over what his hybrid plants will look like when mature

Mariah Carey got her diva label before most millennials were born. When the diva requested doves and kittens for a lighting ceremony in London, it just wasn’t mean to be.  "We did manage to source the doves that we were going to release into the sky, but the kittens proved terribly difficult," a source told Daily Mail, as reported by Zimbio.

Boscawen resident Steven Geddes set the record for second-largest pumpkin in the world at the Deerfield Fair in late September, weighing in at a whopping 2,528 pounds. Courtesy photo

*I do not use low-sodium broth in recipes. If you use low sodium, you might need to add more salt to the recipe for optimum taste.