Replacement Windows

Replacement Windows

By BRUCE L. WILSON Many Cape Codders live in houses built in the 1970s and early ’80s, when small and medium-size houses were generally fitted with single-pane, double-hung windows with aluminum storm windows affixed to the outside. Since the new energy codes, more...
Paint Like a Pro

Paint Like a Pro

By LORRI FINTON When I was a kid my family would make the annual eight-hour drive to coastal Maine for a two-week holiday. Once there, I would inevitably spend time at my grandparents’ house painting anything and everything my grandfather would let me. It was usually...
Getting Started in Organics

Getting Started in Organics

By SHEILA HURST Organic gardening promises to not only keep chemicals out of your garden and off your plate, gardeners also contend that an organic garden can be easier and cheaper to maintain. Patricia Torgersen of Sandwich became interested in organic gardening when...
Homework Helpers

Homework Helpers

By JOANNE BRIANA-GARTNER Homework is a fact of life for most school-age children. Kids as young as 1st grade bring home spelling words, math worksheets, and longer assignments, such as making personal time lines, book projects, and interviewing older family members....
Hybrid Cars Go Mainstream

Hybrid Cars Go Mainstream

By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN For many years the hybrid car was seen as a novelty in America, but when gas prices first rose to $4 a gallon about five years ago that started to change.  “When we started to have those seasonal gas hikes people started to take a more serious...