Doing a favor for the town of Bluff City and attempting to prevent excess work for his staff, Highway Commissioner Allan Pope on March 4 ordered his crews to dig a 36-inch-deep ditch along Graybeal ...

MARSHALL, Minn. — A pair of farmers had permission to clean out some ditches in a few fields. Instead, they dug a trench nearly three-quarters of a mile long in the fields and through a cattail marsh ...

Our daughter has a problem: a wet basement. This is no secret. The spacious basement under the house built by my grandpa and great-grandpa in the 1930s has been leaking for years, but no one used the ...

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SALEM — The Peabody Essex Museum is approaching a routine ditch digging with the care reserved for a piece of Chinese export ceramics. The job is straightforward enough: Dig a ditch between two ...

Continuing on with projects around the homestead with this mini excavator is a drainage ditch. After clearing the land with the mini excavator I was able to gain access to my previously hand dug ...

When I sit down at my computer with a blank page on the screen, I often feel like going back to bed. Sometimes nothing comes to mind to write about. If you're a ditch-digger, you dig ditches whether ...

"When they started digging, everybody was just totally shocked. I didn't know what they were doing," said Barb DeBaets, who has one of the deepest ditches in front of her home. "It looks like a lot ...

Whether you’re planting a tree, spreading mulch, or creating a new landscaping bed, a trusty shovel gets the job done. When shopping for one of these vital gardening tools, there’s a lot to consider.

The young farmer who rents our pasture hasn’t studied economics, or he wouldn’t have offered to spell me doing hand-shoveling recently. His offer was generous on a sweltering day, but it ignored the ...

As an ambitious young hopeful, Matt Wilson started to act on his entrepreneurial aspirations while many were still figuring out what to major in at college. As a business management student at Bryant ...