The vast majority of states chose pretty little songbirds as their state bird. Massachusetts went with the black-capped chickadee. Connecticut went for the ubiquitous American robin. The Northern ...

Playing chicken with United States Department of Defense isn’t a good idea, but that’s what the Animal Welfare League of Arlington said Henny Penny did. And the Rhode Island Red hen lived to tell.

LOWER TOWNSHIP – Thursday night, Aug. 11, resident Claire Nagel will ask the township’s planning board for permission to keep her six Rhode Island Red hens, as part of her effort to grow food locally ...