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Before and After
Special to The Morning CallTo Vince Smith, the building next door to his business, Biery's Port Bodyworks, on Front Street in Catasauqua looked like a graying corpse. In January, when he and his wife, Chris, finally started restoring it, ''and its color returned, it's as if we...Tags: Catasauqua, Charity, Building Material, Computer Hardware, Lehigh County
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Maritime comeback
Special to The Baltimore SunThe Annapolis Maritime Museum in Eastport has learned a few lessons from the tropical storm that demolished its headquarters five years ago. Tropical Storm Isabel ripped off the piers and dock and tore gaping holes in the 90-year-old McNasby Oyster Co....Tags: Floods, Gardens and Parks, Chesapeake Bay, Plant Openings, Oysters
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Blandair redux
Under clear skies on a chilly day recently, workers scaled scaffolding to pound nails into the frame of a two-story entrance porch at the 19th-century Blandair mansion.
The task was among the last before the carpenters ceased their efforts for the...Tags: House and Home, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Family, Metal and Mineral
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A grand old home in River Forest gets a kitchen for today
Tribune reporterShe bore her pain openly: "It got to the point where I would walk downstairs in the morning and I would walk in the kitchen and I would just be very sad," says Traci Smith, wife, mother of two, working woman and avid home cook. She goes on: "It was...Tags: Dining and Drinking, River Forest, Architecture, Kevin Smith, Photography
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Delay of game? Orlando leaders play catch-up on venues financing
Sentinel Staff WritersRenovation of the aging Florida Citrus Bowl stadium won't begin until at least 2010 -- a year late -- and may have to wait even longer, Orlando officials acknowledge. A global credit crunch has made the sale of a bond issue almost impossible, they say....Tags: National Basketball Association, Orlando International Airport, Buddy Dyer, Bonds, Orlando Magic
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Lexington conquers George Washington
The Virginia GazetteAfter more than two years of renovations of $9 million, the Lexington George Washington Inn & Conference Center on Merrimac Trail will formally debut its new look next week. Renovations began in 2006 after two private investors took over the hotel....Tags: Sales, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Hotels and Accommodations, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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First restoration in a century on Donatello's 'David' presented in Florence
Associated Press WriterFLORENCE, Italy (AP) _ Donatello's "David" was returned to its original splendor as restorers completed the first cleanup in a century of the bronze statue that is a symbol of the Renaissance. Restorers said Friday they used new cleaning techniques,...Tags: Sculpture
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Shaq casts himself as victim from Heat trade
SunSentinel.comRevisionist history has Shaquille O'Neal convinced there is no bad history when it comes to his departure last season from the Miami Heat. Addressing the South Florida media following this morning's shootaround at U.S. Airways Center, the Phoenix Suns...Tags: Shaquille O'Neal, Pat Riley, Phoenix Suns, Dwyane Wade, Los Angeles Lakers
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penalty box
When regulators blow the whistle. Who's in it: NRT New England LLC and Coldwell Banker Real Estate Services LLC, both doing business as Coldwell Banker Real Estate Brokerage, one in North Haven, one in Fairfield Who put it there: U.S. Environmental...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Banking, Painting, Environmental Politics
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Furniture fixers offer tips and techniques for DIY restoration done right
McClatchy-Tribune newspapersBy Mary Beth Breckenridge Allen and Ina Brosseau Marx believe that when it comes to furniture restoration, whatever two hands have put together, two hands can try to fix. They strive to teach people the right way to go about that in "Furniture...Tags: Furniture
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Military academy needs makeover
Milwaukee Journal SentinelWhen he attended St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in the 1960s, Crain Bliwas did not mind the drafty windows, leaky roofs or outdated restrooms. Now that he is the academy's chairman of the board, Bliwas finds those conditions unacceptable. So...Tags: Banking, Bonds
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U.S. Sugar OKs sale of land to state, but hurdles remain
The Associated PressU.S. Sugar Corp., the nation's largest producer of cane sugar, has agreed to sell its nearly 300 square miles of farmland to the state of Florida for Everglades restoration. The deal must still be approved by the boards of U.S. Sugar and the South...Tags: Local Authority, Everglades, Ecosystems, South Florida Water Management District, Water Restrictions
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