As Lyle and Erik Menendez approach the possibility of release after nearly 35 years, several family members have publicly supported the brothers, while confronting their own grief over the deaths ...

WATERVILLE — The annual Family Festival of Trees is scheduled for the weekends of Nov. 22-24 and Nov. 29-Dec. 1 at the Waterville Elks Banquet & Conference Center, 76 Industrial Road.

But an Avery family farm may have been hit the hardest by the storm, losing more than 60,000 trees. “All the trees are going to die,” farmer Graham Avery said. Avery is just one in a long line ...

Christmas tree farmers are reporting massive amounts of crops being lost, and while it shouldn’t affect getting what’s left to stores, it could take years to recover. The damage in Avery County can be ...