Garden Entrance | A simple arbor of a bent branch covered by morning glories makes a great garden entrance at your Strafford correspondent's home in South Strafford, yet the fence around the garden and closing the gate at night was not enough to keep the raccoons out of the sweet corn. A large population of raccoons this year have been active around town enjoying corn in many a garden. Raccoons are currently topping both bears and deer as being the most challenging wildlife with which we share space. (Herald / John Freitag)