The Garden Lady started off with a postcard from trees, and C.L. Fornari's guest today was Scott Lajoie Communications Director of the Buzzards Bay Coalition. They spoke about significant trees. Callers were wondering about planting garlic, shrub recommendations, beefing up a lawn, and ground covers for "socks and shoes" around shrubs.

We round up the week's local news with our region's leading journalists.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about the latest unusual visitor to local waters. A cubera snapper, estimated at 40 pounds, found its way to Nantucket where it was caught by a 14-year-old angler and released.

We talk with Martha’s Vineyard historian and author Tom Dresser about two of his most recent books.

This week on the Local Food Report: it’s a duel of appetites in a new documentary about delicious but destructive green crabs.

The week of Labor Day marks the unofficial kickoff of the general election season. President Trump's unpopularity and Democratic enthusiasm means control of Congress is on the ballot.

Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. go into effect, Republicans prepare for Trump's unconventional midterm convention, officials say victims in Miami airport crash were inside vehicles.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist Peter Bergen about his latest book, "All The Presidents' Wars," a history of the United States' war on terror across four presidential administrations.