Eaton News

Sue Greenhagen, of Eaton, photographs the Peterboro Civil War monument for her website.

In the Disney film, "Beauty and the Beast," Mrs. Potts sings "A Tale as Old as Time." To me this refrain also describes people's fixation with maintaining a socially acceptable manicured lawn with beastly fuel-sucking equipment, hired grass-perts and a slew of scientifically proven chemicals, fertilizers and the latest and greatest seeds.

Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin E. Walsh reports that detectives assigned to the Sheriff's Burglary Investigation Unit have charged a Madison County man with multiple burglary charges in connection with several residential burglaries.