Kathy Costello has been WNKU's Celtic music host for nearly two decades. She also produces and hosts WNKU's daily environmental feature, the Earth Calendar.
The use of electronic products has grown substantially over the past two decades, changing the way and the speed in which we communicate and how we get information and entertainment.
While superstorm Sandy sent most people running for shelter wherever they could find it, bird enthusiasts rushed outdoors as soon as possible to scan the skies for birds that usually don't visit their neighborhoods.
November 17th is the next scheduled work day for the Licking River Greenway and Trails, an ambitious Northern Kentucky effort to create an urban greenway from the mouth of the Licking River to the I-275 loop.
Extreme heat and drought over the summer took their toll on many food crops – but there is an abundance of pumpkins in many places for the fall season.
Save water and promote healthy trees with a quick sprinkle of wood chips, sawdust or other mulch material. Mulch is a thin layer of ground bark, compost, sawdust, grass clippings and leaves placed on soil. It cools the earth below and holds in moisture, decreasing the amount of watering you have to do (typically hundreds of gallons a year). Mulch helps protect tree roots, and the organic variety provides valuable fertilizer as they break down over time. They also cut down in the number of weeds that can compete with your trees, meaning you don’t have to use chemicals. The few weeds tha