Before National Grid cut down 129 privately owned trees and 39 on town-owned land, no one on the town's Select Board was aware of the plan.

Maplewood residents have been on tenterhooks waiting and watching for the 350ish-year-old great white ash tree in Memorial Park to leaf out this spring.

Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...