Allergen-free, antimicrobial synthetic turf – Install it in your backyard, and you can eliminate most of the allergens and truly enjoy the great outdoors… without birds, butterflies, flowers and everything else that makes the Vermont landscape unique and enjoyable. An allergy is an increased sensitivity to ordinarily harmless substances. The symptoms associated with allergies occur [...]

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Are you an optimist or a pessimist? In today’s economy, well, let me rephrase this, in any economy, it is easy to take one stance over the other. It depends on what we hear from the media and from others and how we respond to this. Massachusetts Mortgage Broker and friend, Bill Nickerson, recently made [...]

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My first apartment was a studio, a very cozy one, but rather tiny. When I decided it was time to move up in the world, I anticipated an easy move I could accomplish in a matter of 48 hours tops. It took 48 hours alright, but I was shocked when I realized it also required [...]

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You shake hands with the Realtor. You have just signed a listing contract to sell your home. Your agent had brought delicious bagels and veggie cream cheese his wife makes at home. “How delightful!” you exclaim, “she should market this!” Back to business… your agent explains his marketing plan for your home. You are delighted [...]

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Two words, “Holding Pattern”. They bring to mind a sense of suspension in time and suspension in activity. Vermonters with their homes already on the market, and some who had simply begun to contemplate selling, woke up to this two-word headline on their Sunday morning Burlington Free Press. Imagine the temptation to fling the paper [...]

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We take price very personally; perhaps a bit too personally at times. You know how much you paid for your home, how much of an upgrade it was from your former residence and all the tender loving care you have poured into it over the years. You are a hard worker who likes to keep [...]

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Submitted by our very own Lisa Grady This past week, along with other members of the Stowe Garden Club, I went to Evergreen Gardens in Waterbury to learn about “container gardening”.  Sitting outside under threatening skies, owner Carol MacLeod demonstrated how to artfully put together “chillers”, “spillers” and “thrillers” to create a dramatic effect with [...]

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Maxwell – By House Mouse Design Perhaps you have noticed the funny mouse illustration on your dentist’s wall, the one with the big tube of toothpaste and the tiny, scruffy-looking mouse doing its best to squeeze the tube and maintain a fresh grin. The creator is Williston resident Ellen Jerackie. Her company is called House [...]

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“How did I get here so fast? I don’t even remember crossing town”. You are certainly familiar with the sudden feeling of arriving at your street corner and realizing your remember nothing of the road between the office and your destination. We come and go each day on a journey of work, errands and activities [...]

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Foreclosures are sad and dramatic; they can also be a turning point. There is a difference between willfully and maliciously failing to keep one’s end of a contract and suddenly facing new circumstances that turn everything upside down. Whether it is due to loss of income, sudden health expenses or even the consequences of initially [...]

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