by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
One of the world’s rarest trees—a prehistoric species that dinosaurs used to snack on—is bearing fruit for the first time after a retired couple planted it in their garden years ago. Wollemi pines – dubbed dinosaur trees – date back more than 90 million years and were...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
A young woman has received $40,000 in scholarship funding from Taco Bell after working there during high school. Crimsyn Price applied for a Taco Bell scholarship for workers, and was awarded $10k during each of the first four years of her undergraduate studies....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
It all started with heartbreak and $100 in tips, when in 2014 Kristina Ulmer’s sister headed home with the cash earned from her breakfast tables, but never made it due to a car crash. Because Katie was always concerned about struggling folks who were less fortunate,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
In an unprecedented success for conservation efforts, a tiny population of Guam kingfishers given a new home has laid its first eggs—after 40 years of the species being extinct in the wild. Exterminated from its Guam island home by invasive brown tree snakes, the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Japanese have an unjustly-bestowed-upon reputation for being cold and distant, and one new American mother who’s gone viral on TikTok discovered just how wrong that stereotype can be. While out at a restaurant with her husband, Maggie Boynton was approached by a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Pittsburgh-area contractor picked up the flag for his profession after a local senior couple were scammed out of some new landscaping work they paid for. Losing out on $6,750 for a new retaining wall for the garden-side of their driveway, the couple was shocked when...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the towns along Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction through North Carolina, rebuilding homes and stores takes time. But thanks to an army of volunteers, rebuilding the sense of community in towns like Chimney Rock and Bat Cave has been done at light speed....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Everyone in a relationship will know how love often works in mysterious ways, but quicksand isn’t typically involved, right? Typically, no; but never? Also no. Just ask Mitchell O’Brien and Breanne Sika, a new couple, for whom falling in love first meant falling in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Throughout 2024, the city of Athens focused on expanding urban greenery in key areas in response to several sweltering summers in a row. Featuring the planting of the city’s first micro-forest, greening has occurred in six neighborhoods as well as on the famous...
