Tips For Better Home Movies

Tips For Better Home Movies

By CHARLES TASHIRO Photography and videography are powerful tools to capture those holiday moments that we treasure over time. The results often disappoint, however, because the execution does not equal the events’ emotional importance.  That’s because as powerful and...
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...
Repair OR Replace?

Repair OR Replace?

By ALISON COMEY Strapped for cash, we’re rethinking our “toss it out” mentality about items – big and small If you grew up with parents who survived the Great Depression of the 1930s, as I did, hand-me-downs were as much a part of your childhood as the family...
A Time To Plant  (And Prune)

A Time To Plant (And Prune)

By MARY STANLEY As the summer season wanes and the days grow a bit shorter, we may be tempted to close the shades and curtains and to put aside thoughts of yard work, such as mowing and fertilizing the lawn, and weeding flower gardens. But the autumn season actually...