At “sugaring-off” dinners, celebratory meals marking the close of maple syrup season, the air and your hair smell like maple syrup and guests leave with a high that has little to do with the amount of ...

DALTON — It’s late winter, the time of year when the friends and neighbors of Geno DiNicola enjoy his homemade maple syrup — harvested from the sap of maple trees near his house and boiled down in his ...