Three women have filed lawsuits alleging that a former high school teacher and coach in Chicago’s western suburbs groomed and ...

There are, of course, scandals surrounding Arbor Day's founder, the controversial J. Sterling Morton (more on him later). There's also the common trend of people pretending to be tree specialists ...

Arbor Day originated in the United States during the early 1870s. The idea was conceived by J. Sterling Morton, a journalist and politician who moved from Detroit to the Nebraska Territory.

One of the fiercest advocates for planting more trees was J. Sterling Morton. Morton once was secretary of the territory and served on the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture. He proposed a tree ...

J. Sterling Morton was Nebraska’s No. 1 treehugger. After all, he founded Arbor Day on April 10, 1872, when one million trees were planted. And his estate, which was built to resemble the White ...

That’s why we see what we see today. When Arbor Day was founded as a national movement in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton, Salt Lake was already well on its way to becoming an urban forest.

Funeral Mass for William J. Morton Jr., 71, a 26-year resident of Pepper Pike, will be 10 a.m. Monday, April 15, 2013, at St. Paschal Baylon Catholic Church, 5384 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights.

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Theodore J. Mark, Jr., age 74 of Morton, passed away on April 18, 2014. Ted was a graduate of St. James High School. He served his country in the U.S. Navy. He retired from the Philadelphia Naval ...

Michael J. Grossi Michael J. Grossi, “Pop-Pop”, 86, of Morton passed away on March 2, 2013 at Springfield Hospital surrounded by his loving family. Michael was the husband of the late Rose ...

Of the 10 most expensive homes sold last month in Tazewell County, seven had addresses in Morton. The village of about 17,000 people — located just outside Peoria — also had the county’s ...

CROWN POINT — It wasn’t the exact date for the holiday, but the thought and the shovels were there. City officials, including Mayor Pete Land, held a rescheduled Arbor Day observance ...