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WE NEED YOUR HELP TO HELP OTHERS! BUILD-A-BAG 2020
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YMCA re-opening on Tuesday
Reverse mortgages allow older homeowners to turn part of their home equity into tax-free cash, using a loan that doesn't have to be paid back until they die, sell or move out.
It's our new normal: Tens of millions of Americans are unemployed or on a reduced income. We're social distancing and spending more time at home. But one thing hasn't changed — debts still have due dates.
Beginning May 31 the 2020 Summer Reading Program will begin at the Knox County Public Library, running through July 31. Readers will win fun prizes for minutes spent reading this summer. Each program, has a theme and this year’s is, “Imagine Your Story.”
Imagine if all the back and front yards — and even patio container plants — across the country were seen as one magnificent patchwork quilt, a "Homegrown National Park." Home gardeners would join forces to bring back a variety of native plants to protect and nurture struggling birds, bees an…
Even before darker anxieties took hold, the bad guys of "Scooby-Doo" were charmingly quaint. An evil circus owner, a grumpy civil servant, a plotting first mate — these were the villains of "Scooby-Doo," all of them revealed with an unmasking flourish and the cursing of "you meddling kids."
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With all due respect to the wonderful literary talents of the late Ted Geisel, this pandemic at times makes me feel as if I’m surviving inside a Dr. Seuss storybook, especially on that first warm day of spring when the frontier of my new normal world expanded beyond the living room recliner …
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As most of us remember from storybooks, fairy tales, plus a couple of classic Hollywood movie scenes, music soothes the savage beast — and at least one columnist whose anxiety level has nearly breached its limit in this COVID-19 pandemic.
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As I have navigated through this pandemic, I have thought more than once, "So this is who I am."
NEW YORK — Couples trying to salvage weddings put on hold by the coronavirus are feeding a fresh trend in the bridal industry: the "minimony."
LONDON — Office jobs are never going to be the same.
Since the coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge in interest in gardening, especially vegetable gardening, some seed companies are having trouble keeping up with demand. But one thing we gardeners can do is grow and save our own seeds.
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COUNTY TO RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDS FOR EMERGENCY FOOD, SHELTER PROGRAMS
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This week my dear wife and I searched for a picture worth more than a thousand words.
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Louis and Joyce Myers will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Monday.
As the days go by, I am being forced to become more creative with my cooking. I've always been a fan of stews and hearty soups, and I make them all year round to stock my freezer. That stash has started to run low lately. So it was time to see what I could make out of the slim pickings I had…
The protagonist of “No More Dead Dogs” by Gordon Korman is the school football hero, Wallace Wallace. He’s suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable review of “Old Shep, My Pal.” Not understanding why the dog in every classic novel has to die in the end, Wallace said he hated every …
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Today should have been a glorious afternoon at the old ball park.
One of the best-selling fiction books of 2020, and certainly the most controversial, is “American Dirt,” by Jeanine Cummins. It begins on page one with the massacre of an entire middle-class family in Acapulco, Mexico, by drug cartel gunmen. The only survivors are Lydia, a bookstore owner, a…
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When your entire life is happening inside your home, it matters how that space feels and functions.
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So many unsung heroes during this COVID-19 pandemic but so little space to give them their proper due. So many creative solutions being developed to problems caused by this epidemic but so little, uh, well, you know the drill.
NITRO, W.Va. — The sweet peppers were picked over, the tomatoes were taken and the flowers were fixing to be next. The empty spots on the store's display were starting to outnumber the full ones.
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Living in a small town like Vincennes has both its rewards and its shortcomings. I have been lucky enough to have been raised here and then spend 25 years moving around the country to cities such as Chicago, Houston, Jasper and Hickory, North Carolina. But in 2007 I made the move back to Vin…
GENERATIONS IS HERE FOR YOU!
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