Former Palm Beach Daily News publisher and lifelong reporter Agnes Ash died March 22 at age 99, her family said. Mrs. Ash, known as "Aggie," was a voracious reader and prolific writer whose ...

In the United States, commercial palm-ash makers are based in Texas and Florida and ship the ash all over the country, along with decorative fronds used on Palm Sunday.

In the United States, commercial palm ash makers are based in Texas and Florida and ship the ash all over the country, along with decorative fronds used in Palm Sunday services.

At Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, a parishioner who for years made the ashes for Ash Wednesday died in the 1980s – and so did the parish’s practice of burning fronds from the previous Palm ...

Wildfires burning in a heavily grassy area near the Palm Beach and Broward County line, coupled with winds from the west, brought ash to west Boca Raton on Thursday.

Palm Sunday is a nod to Easter Sunday, said Mark Jobe, president of the Moody Bible Institute. It's a celebration of Jesus dying and rising again.

Pure, top-of-the-line palm ash sells for about $24 a pound wholesale. Carefully made, meticulously weighed, the dark dust becomes holy only when blessed by the clergy who use it.

Sacred Heart Church, in Columbus' Italian Village, burned its own palm fronds this year to use as ashes for Ash Wednesday, March 2.

Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent for those who celebrate Easter, is Feb. 14 this year.

Former Palm Beach Daily News publisher and lifelong reporter Agnes Ash died March 22 at age 99, her family said. Mrs. Ash, known as "Aggie," was a voracious reader and prolific writer whose ...