Today's News

With a sagging economy, many golf courses are making drastic budget cuts. They are cutting back on services, limiting mowing, restricting the use of fertilizers and chemicals and cutting the hours of operations of their restaurants. To promote business, they are expanding tee times and giving cut rates and coupons to golfers.

Construction around golf course communities has slowed in the last few months.

Amid this quiet despair, The Thistle Golf Course is finishing its 15,600-square-foot clubhouse.

Walking through Douglas Williams’ garage is like walking through a golf museum.

Dozens and dozens of golf bags full of clubs line one wall, and more bags and more golf clubs lie throughout the garage.

Near another wall is a white bucket full of used golf balls, at least 100. A smaller bucket is full of more golf balls. Stacks of egg cartons also contain dozens of golf balls.

As baseball players tossed baseballs and infielders fielded groundballs one late afternoon at the West Brunswick High School baseball field, the conversation among the spectators was about the Trojans and their prospects in the upcoming Junior American Legion playoffs.

Fried green tomatoes are one of my favorite summer foods. If you haven’t tried them, you’re in for a treat.

Native to Mexico and Central America, it’s not clear how tomatoes came to the United States. Thomas Jefferson grew them in the 1780s and credited one of his neighbors with the introduction, but Harriott Pinckney Horry recorded a recipe, “To Keep Tomatoes for Winter Use” in 1770.