Monthly Archives: March 2014

5 Reasons To Reconsider Selling Your Home On Your Own

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Last year, many metro areas saw double-digit home-price increases. However, this past quarter, there has been a significant slowdown in those increases, according to Trulia’s Price and Rent monitor. Now that the winter ground is beginning to thaw, and spring is approaching, ushering in the busiest time of the year for home sales, what about those homeowners who have been thinking about selling but remain on the sidelines, waiting for their homes to increase in value? Read more [...]

Fundraiser, live music and cabbage throwing. That and more on tap this weekend

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You can come jam with this group of Cajun musicians every Monday, except holidays.Admission: Free.When: 5-7 p.m. Mondays.Where: Jean Lafitte Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center, 314. St. Mary St., Thibodaux.Information: www.nps.gov/jela/wetlands-acadian-cultural-center.htm or 448-1375.Art showThe Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild’s annual parishwide School Art Show features artwork from students throughout the parish. Registration of artworks from each school is due by 3 p.m. Feb. 26 at the gallery. Read more [...]

New owners save listed medieval pub

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A medieval building, listed as one of England’s most threatened historical sites, is under new ownership. The George pub, in Great Missenden, has been bought by Amplio (The George), which is looking to put the building into use again after it was boarded up about three weeks ago. Concerns have been raised over a 15th century barn’s stability at the back of the former pub, in High Street, and English Heritage marked the Grade II listed building on the Heritage at Risk Register in September. Read more [...]

The best ‘traditional western’ in a nontraditional era

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Gary Schanbacher won a Spur Award for his traditional western novel “Crossing Purgatory.” Imagine westerns and romance novels staring each other down at the O.K. Corral: Once upon a time, Louis L’Amour might have been the fastest draw, but nowadays E.L. James can snap that Colt .45 right from his grip with her bull whip. (Stop that metaphor!) The audience for western fiction (not Western literature) probably peaked in the 1960s, and you rarely see the once-mighty genre listed separately Read more [...]

Leamington Spa former post office given listed status

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19 March 2014 Last updated at 13:27 The front of the building has sash windows flanked by hooded door surrounds on lion's head brackets A former post office in Leamington Spa has been awarded Grade II listed status by English Heritage. The building on Priory Terrace, which also contained Royal Mail offices, is within the town's conservation area. English Heritage described it as a "good quality Read more [...]

Cemetery given listed status by English Heritage

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A cemetery in Compton, which is more than 120 years old and was designed by the Victorian artist Mary Watts, has been given a Grade II* listing.Compton Cemetery has been added to the Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade II* by English Heritage, the second highest grade that can be bestowed, meaning it will be protected from inappropriate development.Mary Watts was renowned for breaking into the male dominated world of Victorian art, and designed Compton Cemetery close to where she lived with her Read more [...]