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When It's Time to Take Down Your Christmas Tree, Think Recycling
Christmas trees can often be recycled, keeping them out of landfills and producing mulch for gardening and landscaping.
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This Boston Couple Helped Decorate the White House for the Holidays: PICS
This holiday season, 77 Christmas trees adorn the White House, along with more than 80,000 holiday lights and a gingerbread White House that weighs well over 170 lbs. All that decoration takes a lot of people to put up, and among the 150-plus volunteers from across the country was a couple from Boston. Stephen and David St. Russell are known…
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Christmas Controversy Over Tree in Dedham Library
Controversy is brewing over the omission of a Christmas tree at the local library in Dedham, Massachusetts this year. The controversy first started when a library branch supervisor posted about the lack of a tree this holiday season. She said she was told that “people” were made uncomfortable last year looking at it. The post brought on a wave of…
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Christmas Tree Prices Skyrocket With High Demand, Low Supply
Wade Appleby and his girlfriend, Rachel, are looking for the perfect tree. “This is our first tree that we’re buying together actually,” said the resident of Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It’s a magical moment but one that comes with a steeper price than last year. “I expected probably with where inflation is right now probably, 8% to 10% higher...
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Short Supply and High Demand for Christmas Trees
A shortage of Christmas trees has people struggling to find one this holiday season.
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Watch: 30 Rock Christmas Tree Heads to New York
The enormous tree was cut down in Queensbury, New York, and will head to New York City.
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Drought, Recent Demand Leave Christmas Tree Farms With Grim Outlook
In a world where green is everything, there are increasing shades of brown. A long, hot summer has burned those who grow Christmas trees. “Our inventory is down significantly, essential due to the drought and the impact to our trees,” said Jim Colburn of Merrihill Tree Farm in Merrimac, Massachusetts. That is why, for the first time ever, Merrihill will…
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Christmas Trees Don't Look Very Merry After Drought
The drought that hammered New England this summer means fewer Christmas trees this holiday season.
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Vermont Couple Celebrated for Launching Charity Christmas Tradition
A couple from central Vermont will be honored this weekend for starting a Christmas tradition that has had a decades-long legacy of supporting community members in the Waterbury area. The Wesley United Methodist Church in Waterbury will celebrate Ed and Robin Lemery in a ceremony Saturday morning at 11, thanking them for launching a Christmas tree sale 30 years ago…
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Revisiting Vermont Couple's Longstanding Christmas Tree Charity
A couple from central Vermont will be honored for starting a Christmas tradition with a decades-long legacy of helping the community.
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Christmas in the Wild: $5 Trees Available From National Forests in Vt. and NH
If you’re looking for a Christmas tree with a real story behind it — and want a bit of a workout to go with it — the U.S. Forest Service has an option for you. It is selling permits that allow you to cut your own tree during a trek through Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest. Those permits are...
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Man Arrested in ‘Malicious Arson Attack' on Fox News Christmas Tree
Videos posted by witnesses to social media show thick clouds of black smoke coming from the tree outside the News Corp. headquarters in NYC
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Why Christmas Tree Buyers Are Facing Reduced Supplies, Higher Prices
Even Christmas trees aren’t immune to the pandemic-induced shortages and inflation plaguing the economy.
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WATCH: Drone Shows Off 2021 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
For the first time ever, the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will come from Maryland!
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Local Christmas Tree Farms Having Strong Year for Sales Amid Pandemic: Reports
The coronavirus pandemic has hit many business particularly hard this year, but one group of businesses is reportedly managing to exceed expectations this holiday season. Christmas tree farms across Massachusetts and New England say they are having one of their strongest years ever, in spite of the pandemic, according to two recent reports. Maple Crest Farm in West Newbury, Massachusetts,…
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Lines and Order: What Visitors Can Expect at the Rockefeller Christmas Tree This Year
The annual Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center is on schedule, but visiting the tree – like the rest of 2020 – will look different than in years past. Official details will be announced Monday, but NBC New York has learned what visitors can expect this year: monitored entrances, socially distanced lines and a limited window to snap pictures. Mayor…
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Christmas Tree Sales Surging at Farms Across Mass. Amid Pandemic
It is the most wonderful time of the year at Christmas tree farms across Massachusetts even though the coronavirus pandemic has made it a tough year for many. Farmers say the amount of people staying at home has increased demand to deck the halls. At Mistletoe Christmas Tree Farm in Stow, they started getting calls for trees three weeks...
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Pandemic Hasn't Stopped Shopping at Christmas Tree Farms Across Mass.
It is the most wonderful time of the year at Christmas tree farms across Massachusetts even though the pandemic has made it a tough year for many. Farmers say the amount of people staying at home has increased demand to deck the halls.
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Boston Common Christmas Tree to Be Delivered, Dedicated to Frontline Workers
The annual evergreen Christmas tree gifted to Boston by Nova Scotia is slated to arrive at the Boston Common Friday with renewed meaning. This year, Nova Scotia is dedicating the tree to healthcare workers, honoring both Boston’s response to the 1917 Halifax Explosion and those who are working on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Boston police will escort…
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Rockefeller Tree Lighting 2020: When It Starts and How to Watch
This year’s holiday season may not look or feel quite like ones from the past, but if the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has anything to say about it, it’s still going to be a time of joy and celebration.