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Cold house keeps residents chilly
Chicago Daily Herald, IL Since the house tends to be dry in the winter due to the wood stove, I leave the bathroom door open when I shower, and then close both the upstairs bedroom and bathroom doors so the heat from the stove doesn’t go up there. I had minimal ice problems … |
Meet the Fischbach family as they give you a sneak peak of their home in Severn. See related story and slideshow . To make a lifelong dream come true would be magnificent. “My mother is a stay-at-home mother and wife - her entire life she has …
City Engineer Steve Hargis looks back at his 32 years of service with Rolla, and he wonders where time has gone. Hargis, 56, said he has no plans for retirement, “although some day he probably will,” saying retirement is a long way off. For …
It would be comforting to imagine a fairy-tale ending for Evelyn Miron, the six-year-old burn victim who carved a place in the hearts and minds of the nurses who cared for her some 60 years ago. The ugly-duckling-to-swan tale is the one you want …
As a food editor, I get invited into all sorts of kitchens to watch people cook, and this is what I’ve discovered: There are lots of fabulously outfitted kitchens, but few of them are truly fabulous. My unprovable theory about the Great Misstep of …
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Fire destroys trailer off the Steese Highway
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, AK The fires have been traced to a variety of causes, namely electric problems or improperly maintained wood stoves. “It’s just basic fire safety,” Rossow said of preventing a house fire. “Clean the chimney if you have a wood stove, have a surge protector … |
To make a lifelong dream come true would be magnificent. “My mother is a stay-at-home mother and wife - her entire life she has dedicated to raising her children and decorating her home and yard,” wrote Karen Beeman of Severn. “One of her lifelong …
WOLCOTT — It cost him $75,000, but John Sharek is one of the most frugal people in town. Forty solar panels, perfectly aligned at 20-degree angles, sit on both sides of the pitched roof of his modest home on Hitchcock Lake. The panels collect light …
(AXcess News) Minneapolis - They had never seen anything like it, these families who farmed the rolling land near the Mississippi River town of Red Wing. Bundled up on the darkening Christmas Eve of 1923, they gazed expectantly at a lone pine tree on …
Tomorrow at 8:30 p.m., millions around the globe will voluntarily turn off their lights in a show of concern for the planet. It can be fun for an hour. But what’s it like to live unplugged? Hugh Dale-Harris shares his experiences: “It’s just …