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While the holidays are festive and fun, they can take a toll on the environment. All that shopping, decoration, food preparation and travel adds up to more carbon emissions and more waste. But there are ways to minimize our impact and still celebrate the season in grand style.
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Nothing beats the smell of a fresh cut Christmas tree in your home, and few events during the holiday season can top a trip to the farm to cut your own tree. The National Christmas Tree Association has the numbers to prove it. In 2012, U.S. consumers bought 24.5 million live trees.
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Virginia Organizing released on Wednesday a report authored by the Alliance for a Just Society detailing the living wage “job gap” in Virginia and the case for Medicaid expansion in Virginia. This is the 15th year the report has been produced.
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Can you keep a secret? This is an important one. I’m opting out of Black Friday this year. Truth be told, we’re opting out of the craziness of Christmas across the board. Which wasn’t a popular decision with all the family. “Whatever,” my mom said when we broke the news to her. (These kinds of things only work mutually, you see.)
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Hands up if you were planning to go shopping on Black Friday! Black Friday has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year and it seems that this unofficial consumer holiday is now taking a step closer to encroaching on the actual day of Thanksgiving.
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I was reading on Gawker this evening about a waitress in Manhattan who quit her job after being told by the manager that she’d have to pick up the tab for three diners who ran up a $96 tab and then left the restaurant without paying.
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Last month, the Bridgewater College men’s and women’s golf teams partnered with Special Olympics for a golf outing at Lakeview Golf Course. That partnership was selected by the NCAA to be one of the featured stories in November’s Special Olympics Spotlight at NCAA.org.
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VDOT will open Route 727 (Airport Road) in Rockingham County on Friday. Contractors from Fairfield-Echols LLC of Fishersville have substantially completed the project just west of Route 11 at Mount Crawford. The work included construction of a new bridge over the North River and realigning part of the road to eliminate two sharp curves.
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There exists an excellent chance that your current hearing aid is equipped with Bluetooth technology, particularly if you purchased it recently. Bluetooth is most often associated with hands-free cell phone use, however it is also commonly seen in home phones, computers, mp3 players and TVs.
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Jack Gordon was in an eighth-grade study in upstate New York when he heard the news that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. That the day changed the course of American history is a matter of intense discussion this week leading up to the 50th anniversary of the Nov. 22, 1963 JFK assassination.
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