Intelligent insights about buying smart appliances January-February 2025 by Scott Flood, Contributing Columnist This time of year, retailers start trumpeting deep...
Testing Your Energy IQ
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Keeping a “Buff Brain”
2024 Fall Fair & Festivals Guide
In fall, it’s time to turn your clocks back an hour and give yourself more time to appreciate all the festivals and other autumn fun that co-op country has to offer! THE VIRGINIA PEANUT FESTIVAL | SEPT. 20-21 Emporia and Greensville County are stoked on peanuts — the...
Apple-solutely Delicious!
September 2024 Apple Guacamole recipe courtesy of Family Features Ingredients: 3 ripe avocados, halved and pitted ½ cup Vidalia onion, finely chopped ½ cup fresh cilantro, snipped juice of 1 lime bottled hot pepper sauce, to taste 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored...
An Upgrade Courtesy of Uncle Sam
Federal tax credits, incentives and rebates for home improvements September 2024 by Miranda Boutelle, Contributing Columnist Q: How do I use federal tax credits and rebates to upgrade my home? A: Tax credits and...
Breeding Success
Whenever Elaine Shirley leads visitors on tours of the agricultural exhibits at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster, Md., she always stops to showcase a plywood cut-out of a dairy cow.
It’s not that the museum lacks any living livestock. Shirley, the museum’s curator, is trying to make a point. The exhibit is painted with markings matching a Sheeted Somerset — a breed that went extinct in the 1930s. She says the reason for the board bovine often catches guests by surprise.
Filling the Gap with History
Wise County coal museum tells the story of a community September 2024 BIG STONE GAP, TUCKED BETWEEN POWELL MOUNTAIN AND LITTLE STONE MOUNTAIN along the Appalachian Straight in Wise County, Va., is probably best known for a series of books written about it by New York...