If you see a pick-up truck around town with bags of onions hanging out the back, you have found Ed Collins. Ed has been selling Vadalia Onions for the Shriners for many years and has become well know in the area around this time of year.

With the unseasonable warm spring temperatures local maple producers scurried to get production started. Bradley French of Maple Brook Farms in Reber said that even though it was the earliest he has ever tapped, it was also the shortest season.