Mt. Pleasant Alarms is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month. To commemorate the occasion, Dennis Cicchitelli, the president and the man who started the company with his wife back in 1974, spoke to the Jewish Voice about the importance of …
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On Thursday, April 17, at 6:30 p.m., the Rochambeau Library will host an author event and plant propagation demonstration with Kristin Green, Blithewold horticulturist and author of “Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big with 150 Plants that Spread, …
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For most of us, buying a residential property is the single most expensive purchase in our lifetime. More than just a place to call home, a property is an investment that requires additional expense over time in order to maintain its future value. …
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Wayne Rosenberg
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As spring is welcomed into our lives this year (as much as or perhaps more than at any point in recent memory), so too comes the annual evaluation of what needs to be done around the exterior and interior of one’s home.
Often at the top of the …
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Tom Lopatosky
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We are living in the midst of one of the most exciting eras of television and technology – from edge-of-your-seat action series to big-game sports. And with more great films becoming available at home sooner, and gaming becoming increasingly …
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StatePoint
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Transforming the bathroom into a place of luxury and convenience has become increasingly popular in home renovations. The once utilitarian space is now a “spa-like” retreat full of high-tech goodies; it invigorates the senses and provides a …
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Amy Bedard
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JTA – A documentary about the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor won an Oscar one week after she died.
Alice Herz-Sommer, who died in London on Feb. 23 at the age of 110, was the subject of “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” …
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In 2002, the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass., opened a new exhibit, Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business, that celebrated the accomplishments of female entrepreneurs.
Inspired by this exhibit, Gail Reimer, …
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Toby Rossner
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No, it isn’t nearly as rare as “Thanksgivukkah,” the once-in-75,000-years overlap of the first day of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving Day that took the Jewish world by storm in 2013. But this year’s 13-month Hebrew calendar isn’t an annual …
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Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org
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JTA – An accused Nazi war criminal is unfit to stand trial, a German court ruled.
Hans Lipschis, 94, who allegedly was an SS guard at Auschwitz, suffers from dementia and will not understand what transpires at his trial, the court in Ellwangen …
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