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Berry sale continues

Sweet Home P.E.O., Chapter DD, is holding its annual berry sale through July 9.

The organization, which offers scholarships to support local women’s pursuit of higher education, is offering Columbia Star blackberries and blueberries, flash frozen and packed in plastic pails – ideal for making jams, jellies and desserts, all available from your Sweet Home P.E.O., Chapter DD.

Columbia Star blackberries, released in 2014, is a vigorous, thornless, trailing blackberry and is consistently productive. The flavor is rated as good or better than marionberry, which is 20%...