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4-Hers place in cattle show
On Aug. 6, Burke County Cooperative Extension and Burke County 4-H hosted the 4-H and Youth Cattle Show at the Burke County Fair.
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Meetings, goals: Work skills to take home with you
Prioritize, delegate, outsource. They're all good management concepts for keeping businesses running smoothly. But can they help get the laundry done and put dinner on the table?
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5 ways to apply management principles at home
Five workplace management techniques that experts say can bring harmony at home
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4-Hers show off goats
Burke County Cooperative Extension and Burke County 4-H hosted on Aug. 5 their annual Youth Goat Show at the Burke County Fair.
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Old Salem selling heirloom plants
Old Salem Museums and Gardens have recently begun to sell heirloom plants in an outdoor area adjacent to the T. Bagge shop.
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Alarming clocks get kids moving
The kids have been back in school only a few days and already you're secretly loading squirt guns with ice water. There was a time you would've called such an idea cruel. Remember? Now, blasting your slumbering schnookums out of bed sounds, simply, brilliant.
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How not to dread reorganizing your garage
Few household activities inspire more dread than reorganizing the garage.Americans' garages are filled with the requirements and detritus of daily life — paint cans, golf bags, bicycles, dusty trophies, power tools, old clothes, boxes of moldy magazines. Sometimes it gets so stuffed the family car doesn't fit anymore.
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Gardener shares history of Dolly Parton tomato
Barbara "Bobbi" Furtado-Mason and her prized Dolly Parton tomatoes took the blue ribbon prize in this year's 59th annual Burke County Fair in the horticulture division.
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Yellow's on the rise in home decor
Step aside, orange. It's yellow's turn to shine. The last few years have seen greens and oranges in the home decor spotlight, but that's about to change, as the primary colors blue and yellow muscle back into the forefront.
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Key questions to ask before buying a condo
For many aspiring homeowners, buying a condominium is an affordable way to transition from being a renter and begin reaping the benefits of homeownership without a lot of the added costs involved in maintaining a house with a yard on a piece of property.
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Stay-at-home moms staying home even more
These days, the term "stay-at-home-mom" has taken on a new meaning. Economic stresses, particularly sky-high gas prices, have kept many of these mothers and their families closer to home base than they'd like, a development some find isolating and deeply frustrating.
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To prune or not to prune
With late summer here and fall fast approaching, folks get in the mood to prune their trees and shrubs. I don't know why, because it is a terrible time of year to prune most things.
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