DEAR BOB: I read your recent item about the Iraq War veteran in a wheelchair who wanted to rent an apartment but it had four steps and he needed an access ramp. You correctly informed the landlord he does not have to pay for the ramp. But the Americans with Disabilities Act requires allowing the tenant to install the ramp at his expense. However, you and your readers might not be aware of the
Nine-year-old Madison Miller looked forward each year to the weekend after Thanksgiving when she would get to help assemble the family’s artificial Christmas tree.
By Peggy Lim, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Nov. 27--CLAYTON -- Railroad tracks have long divided Clayton's downtown. The tracks' north side has always been predominantly black, the south side mostly white.
COURTLAND - Jessie James Sanford, 76, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2006, at Baptist Memorial Hospital East-Memphis. He was a native of Panola County and a member of the Johnson Chapel AME Zion Church where he was a trustee and steward. He was a retired janitor.
The holiday season is in full swing with families picking up Christmas trees at local tree lots around the area. But with every tree that is purchased, many tree retailers want their customers to know the best ways to keep their Christmas trees from becoming a small part of a big fire during the holidays.
Railroad tracks have long divided Clayton's downtown. But both sides have wrestled with change as strip malls along highways outside downtown have stolen customers away.
Flying the American flag outside your home would seem to be an innocuous and highly patriotic activity. And, since the tragedy of Sept. 11, there seem to be flags waving in every residential neighborhood in America.
Wal-Mart deserves applause, not derision, for its four-buck drugs. The retailing giant recently put the prescription drug business on notice that the good ol' days may be in danger.
CLINTON - As Clinton sits in the advanced stages of the early site permit process for a second nuclear reactor, the town has become something of a battleground for various local, regional and even national organizations that support or oppose nuclear power.
You can cut your own Christmas tree at dozens of farms in Eastern North Carolina. The climate and soil won't support Fraser firs, but you can find aromatic cedars, blue-green Carolina Sapphires, white pines, Green Giants and no-shed Leyland cypress.
