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If you have a clogged gutter, call The Gutter Boys, who are trained in ladder safety and use them every day

Last week, looking out of our upstairs bedroom window, I noticed a large hole at the top of one of the columns on the front of our brick Georgian home. (Yeah, “brick Georgian” sounds like we live in a mansion, but it’s just a small, 1958 colonial with the original pink tile in the upstairs bath. We call it “Mimi-pink.”) “Probably a...

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Add 5-15 years to the life of your roof with an environmentally safe Roof Renew application from Pristine Clean

Besides the four walls, one thing all homes have in common is a roof, and over the millennia we’ve tried just about every roofing material to help keep our heads dry—from thatch and animal dung to tin, copper, zinc and slate. Slate, by the way, is a good choice because it’s a rock, pretty much the same technology you see in an...

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A Final Thought: Lining Up For Government Cheese

In the early 1980s, the media discovered that the federal government was storing millions of pounds of surplus cheese at a time when many people were experiencing food insecurity. As a result, Ronald Reagan, who had recently cut the budget of the federal food stamp program, ordered the release of 560 million pounds of cheese. It was distributed...

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A Final Thought: Here’s to the month of June

Life can be a challenge living along the icy shores of the Great Lakes. Back in late February, I went for a walk along Lake Erie at Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve. It was surreal. The thick shore ice in all directions seemed like the surface of the moon, with jagged peaks of upturned ice farther out in the lake as if there had been an...

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Learn how Sewer Cleaning Company can clear your drains and sewer lines quickly and efficiently, and why the company is growing so fast

When Anthony Peto founded Sewer Cleaning Company, he started with one employee and a single truck. Now, less than two years later, the company has grown to five employees and three trucks, outfitted with leading-edge hydro-jet technology that can clear sewer lines efficiently and completely. The growth, Anthony says, is due to referrals from...

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