Pick, bake and eat local

WARWICK - Ariana Blake, 14, was the first-place winner among the junior entries in this year’s Applefest pie contest. An interesting aspect to this story, according to her parents, is that with the help of her dad Max Blake, she was able to use the fruit from a centuries old apple tree that they discovered on their property. Part of their property had once been an apple orchard and the delicious apples used in her pie are no longer found elsewhere in this area today.