A group of big tree hunters want to know a lot about a black oak tree near Willow Street. Was this big tree a sapling when the Herr House was built nearby in 1719? Why was it spared as the ...

Andrew Vernon-Betts, a 35-year resident of Berwick Avenue, says the tree was the last of the big willow trees in his ... damaging a fence. That put the tree on the radar of city inspectors ...