(May 12, 2014) -- In his proclamation declaring May 12 to 16 as National Small Business Week, President Barack Obama called small businesses “the lifeblood of our economy, employing half of our country’s workforce and creating nearly two out of every three new American jobs.”

(May 12, 2014) -- Families who want to learn about the outdoors and camping are encouraged to take part in a weekend event at a lakeside state park in Groton, Vt.

(May 12, 2014) -- “We have long needed an update to Predictions, a product that has been an industry standard for the past 20 years. Adding our Forbid topcoat to Predictions makes it an exceptional product for high traffic areas,” said Post.

(May 12, 2014) -- Jim Backes, chairman of the Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area (AOAA) Authority, said to News Item, Earthday Campground in Shamokin, Pa. will help meet one of the greatest needs created by the park.

(May 12, 2014) -- Spring Gulch Resort Campground in New Holland, Pa. is hosting the twenty eighth annual folk festival next Friday through Sunday.

(May 12, 2014) -- Shorts Branch Brewing Supply, which is operated out of Aquia Pines Camp Resort in Stafford County, Va., will open Wild Run Brewing Company.

(May 12, 2014) -- Kitsap Sun reported on their five top family camping vacation spots in Southern Oregon. At the top of the list is Rogue River camping at Indian Mary and Almeda.

(May 12, 2014) -- That's right folks. The thought police are clamping down hard on the overt racism exhibited when white people celebrate Mexican culture. Stanford Daily refers to that activity as "cultural appropriation," which it defines as "actions that trivialize aspects of a culture by not respecting a custom’s symbolic significance or the history of a style of dress or other artifact.”

(May 12, 2014) -- Spraying of 7,400 trees is scheduled to start this week, weather dependent, to control mountain pine beetle at area U.S. Forest Service campgrounds. Dowdy Lake Campground, Co. will be closed during the spraying.

(May 12, 2014) -- The John Hartford Memorial Festival is taking place May 29-31 at the historic Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground in Bean Blossom, Ind.