A warm summer helped produce an encouraging crop of apples downtown this year.

Joe Poor said “it was a very good year” for the 37 apple trees he helped plant around town in May 2011. The trees yielded about three dozen apples, he said, “a pretty good crop.”

The sun also helped them grow. Poor described how a small, stubby tree at the post office is “coming along pretty good.”

The apple tree at the…