• Conservation district hosts tree sale (Durant Daily Democrat) DURANT - The Bryan Conservation District is holding their annual tree sale from now through Feb. 24. They will be taking orders for a variety of fruit and landscape trees at their office located at the USDA Service Center at 2704 N. First Avenue, Suite A.
• Industrial Park facility now makeshift home: Benton men transform area for evacuees (Benton Courier) Bill Frost and Lloyd Elliott have transformed the former Birch Tree Communities facility in Benton's Industrial Park into a living space for Hurricane Katrina evacuees. All they need are families to occupy it.
• Your News (MLive.com) Albee Township Planning Commission members appointed Donna Cross as their chairwoman, Don Hemker as vice chairman and Gary Gosen as secretary. The 11th annual Frankenmuth/Birch Run Knights of Columbus fish fry is at 11105 Dixie.
• Scientists Warn of Melting Ice in Arctic (AP via Yahoo! News) Scientists on Monday painted a gloomy picture of the effects of global warming on the Arctic, warning of melting ocean ice, rising oceans, thawed permafrost and forests susceptible to bugs and fire.
• Arts, Briefly (New York Times) The sculptor Marc Quinn finds a muse in Kate Moss, HarperCollins serves ads with digital books, English couples embrace reality show weddings and more culture news.
• Art stolen by Nazis being returned (USA Today) Vienna's Belvedere Gallery packed five Gustav Klimt paintings Monday for return to a California woman whose family owned the works when they were stolen by the Nazis. The Dutch government agreed to return some 200 artworks to descendants of a Jewish art dealer whose collection had been seized by Hitler's top aide.
• Vienna Museum Returning Stolen Art (AP via Yahoo! News) Vienna's Belvedere Gallery took down five Gustav Klimt paintings Monday and packed them for return to a California woman whose family owned the works when they were stolen by the Nazis.
• Scientists Warn of Melting Ice in Arctic (ABC News) Scientists Warn of Melting Ocean Ice and Rising Oceans in the Arctic Because of Global Warming
• Vienna Prepares to Return Art Looted by Nazis (Fox News) An Austrian gallery on Monday packaged the five Gustav Klimt paintings to return them to the woman whose family owned them when they were stolen by the Nazis.
• Art Stolen by Nazis Being Returned (ABC News) Vienna Museum Sending Paintings Stolen by Nazis to American Heir, Dutch Also Returning Stolen Art