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Tuesday is deadline for Do Not Call list
Tuesday is the next deadline to sign up for Indiana's Do Not Call registry. Since January, the state attorney general's office says it has received more than 5,000 complaints about telemarketing calls from live operators or prerecorded messages. One scam includes an automated call offering to lower consumers' credit card ...
Gillette gardeners share tips on saving money
Gardening can be a relaxing and rewarding thing, but it also can be expensive. There's more to keeping a beautiful landscape, or even a small vegetable garden, than a little soil and sunshine. Tools, seeds, plants, mulch, water, pots, fertilizer and decorative elements all come with a cost. It's not ...
Muncie hopes garden project can repeat history
In 1931, Muncie earned national recognition from the administration of President Herbert Hoover for its efforts to feed and employ the hungry and jobless through community gardening. Backed by the Community Garden Association, members of the Ball family, Warner Gear, city schools, the Muncie Real Estate Board and others, the ...
Tour promoting urban gardening comes to Flint
A company that's leading a cross-country trek to encourage urban gardening and deliver plants and produce is stopping at a Flint school. The Burpee Home Gardens "Grow Anywhere Tour" plans to park Friday at Flint's Durant-Tuuri-Mott Elementary School. Organizers say they will deliver 1,300 pounds of produce and 500 vegetable ...
Minn. House approves gay marriage; would be 12th
A historic vote Thursday in the Minnesota House positioned that state to become the 12th in the country to allow gay marriages and the first in the Midwest to pass such a law out of its Legislature. Lawmakers approved it 75-59, a critical step for the measure that would allow ...
Shanghai: 5 freebies from Bund to art districts
China's biggest city and financial hub is known for designer boutiques and fine dining. Yet wallet-draining Shanghai also offers activities that cost nothing, from walking on the riverfront Bund to sculpture parks and historic sites. Here are five of them. THE BUND A walk along the Bund is an introduction ...
Greenfield plant transforms waste into fertilizer
Spring gardeners, lawn manicurists and nursery folk of all varieties on the hunt for cheap fertilizer this planting season need look no farther than the city's wastewater treatment facility, where there is an ample supply that will not run out anytime soon. Stored in two open-air storage barns, numerous 12-foot-high ...
Michelle Obama at book-signing: 'Buy away'
Michelle Obama on Tuesday returned to the business of selling her first book, and she started by telling scores of people waiting in line at a popular bookstore to "buy away" because Mother's Day is coming. "It's a great gift," she said of "American Grown: The Story of the White ...
Evansville urban gardens feed needs of community
They may look like muddy plots now, but in the coming months vacant lots and empty fields around Evansville will bloom and overflow with fresh produce. Several neighborhoods and communities this year are independently transforming unused urban land into lush community gardens. It's a trend that's gained popularity nationwide, and ...
Ohio teen twins fight rare, deadly disorder
Daniel and Forrest Theiss wanted to fight for their country. Daniel dreamed of becoming an airborne medic in the U.S. Army. Forrest enlisted with the U.S. Marines. Instead, the 18-year-old identical twins are fighting for their lives after being diagnosed with a genetic condition — so rare it doesn't even ...
UA prof. lauded for energy-efficient home
When Tom Marsik began work on his new home in Dillingham in 2010, the former Fairbanks resident had a lofty goal of building the most efficient structure he could imagine. Even Marsik, an assistant professor of sustainable energy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Bristol Bay campus, didn't have any ...
That's the spirit: Booze from local crops booming
With all the orchards and corn fields that dot the Hudson Valley landscape, Tuthilltown Spirits doesn't have to look far for the grains and apples to make their whiskey, vodka and gin. The 10-year-old company crafts many of their liquors from ingredients grown no more than a few minutes away, ...
Local food movement catches on in Casper
Steve Ford takes pride in his heirloom tomatoes. He grows them in community plots and climate-controlled "tunnels" at his South Conwell Street home in Casper, where recently planted seedlings and future transplants sit in a 6- by 8-foot greenhouse. Indoors, more tomato starts await sale in a multilevel window box. ...
Macy's loses appeal on Martha Stewart goods
A New York appeals court is allowing J.C. Penney Co. to continue to sell a new line of home goods designed by Martha Stewart. The ruling, which came Tuesday, rejects Macy's request for a preliminary injunction order aiming to block Penney from selling the collection of bedding, cookware and other ...
Ohio bill would put open-container areas in cities
In the vein of the Las Vegas Strip and the streets of New Orleans, two Ohio lawmakers want the state's biggest cities to have entertainment districts where revelers can take their alcoholic drinks outdoors. A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate on Thursday by Sen. Eric Kearney proposes to allow ...
Disney's oldest cruise ship Magic gets a makeover
Disney Cruise Line's oldest ship, the Magic, is getting a makeover, including the addition of a children's area themed on Marvel Comics superheroes and a three-story water slide, the company announced Friday. The Magic launched in 1998. Other updates when the ship goes into drydock in Spain for a month ...
AT&T to sell home automation, security packages
AT&T Inc. is launching its home security and automation service in 15 cities Friday, with an eye toward getting customers hooked on security cameras, thermostats and locks they can control from phones and tablets. AT&T's "Digital Life" packages will be sold in cellphone stores in markets including Los Angeles, Chicago, ...
Delphi launches work as part of Stellar program
Work has begun to restore 11 historic houses near downtown Delphi as part of a state program that helps smaller communities pay for comprehensive development projects. The Journal & Courier reports (http://on.jconline.com/14P5GSD ) that grant money from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority will pay for the repairs as ...
Colorado Springs prospects dim for solar garden
Just weeks after the former Colorado Springs City Council voted to expand the Colorado Springs Community Solar Garden, the new council is set to reverse course. New council president Keith King said the backtracking will not scrap renewable energy programs. The council needs more information about other cost-efficient ways to ...
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