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Another week has swiftly gone by, and here I am at our kitchen table writing again. It has been a sunny morning so far. The weather for this past week hasn’t been bad. It’s pretty cold in the mornings and the afternoons are warmer and sunny, but once the sun goes down you can feel that temperature drop quickly. Thank the Lord no snow or ice. We did have a problem at our house over the weekend, starting Friday morning. The water company found a bad leak at our house and had to turn the water off. We were very thankful that our neighbor, Tom and his son Darin Wright, were willing to g...

If the vibe, flow, and stylistic touches and finishes of the reclaimed cypress wood along the walls that give Cypress Social its name don’t grab your attention, the food will. The sister restaurant to the JTJ Restaurant Group’s Petit & Keet is what diners call a destination restaurant. Inviting dining room area. Welcoming bar and three-tier outdoor deck, complete with lake and fountain. A parlor room. Even the pandemic couldn’t stop the coming of Little Rock, Arkansas’ latest next big thing. The 330-seat restaurant takes diners on a trip through some of the South’s biggest food sta...

Guest houses, Airbnbs struggling amid drop in bookings over holiday season By Shakirah Thebus Share Cape Town - Guest houses and Airbnbs have seen a significant drop in bookings, not unexpected but still unusual for the December/January holiday season. This comes as the country battles a second wave of Covid-19, with healthcare facilities under severe strain and the country placed on an adjusted level 3 lockdown. Hide Away Guest House co-owner and Knysna Accommodation Association marketing co-ordinator, Colleen Harding, said the tourism sector in those parts, was not coping. Harding noted low...

With the increasing conversion across suburban Kingston of single-family dwellings to multistorey apartments, many people will share the sense of frustration and powerlessness described by this newspaper’s Boxing Day guest columnist Barry Thomas over the changing character of their communities – often with callous disregard for the rules by regulators and indifference to people’s rights by developers. Mr Thomas recited his personal story going back two years ago in the Kingston 6 area where he has lived for 17 years. Without notice, construction began on a multistorey apartment complex ...

proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. >> nationwide is on your side >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- tavis: please welcome anthony hopkins back to this program. this weekend, his latest movie opens around the country. here are scenes from "the rite." >> the interesting thing about atheists is they are always looking for certain...