MAHANOY CITY — Mahanoy Township adopted its 2009 tentative budget, which includes no tax increases. The budget will be voted on at next month’s meeting. It includes $301,000 in revenues and $300,841 in expenditures. Township supervisors ...

23 Nov 2008

Click the "Get the story in iPod format" button above. You'll be prompted to save a file. Save it to your computer, and unzip it. It should create a folder called "The Washington Times". Connect your iPod to your computer and mount it as an external ...

23 Nov 2008

For 71 years, Blanche McBroom has watched many things change in her Phoenix neighborhood. The drumming sound of airplanes passing overhead, however, continues on. This month, her 1921 house is getting nine sound-dampening windows and $45,000 in other ...

23 Nov 2008

Dear Jim: My old wood front door leaks air and requires maintenance. I might switch to a steel door for low maintenance and security, but I was concerned about its efficiency. Doesn't steel transmit heat? - Joe D. Dear Joe: It is true that a chunk of ...

23 Nov 2008

What's involved in a switch from Windows to Linux? An editor and a couple of readers posed that question after last week's column. Given the proliferation of cheap Linux-based "netbooks" it is worth a systematic look. For newbies, the more stand ...

23 Nov 2008

Micah Berggren of R.M. Pena company of Burnt Hills moves bags of insulation to a hopper inside the back of one of the company’s trucks that will feed the injector that blows the loose cellulose into the walls of a home in Albany. Beefing up a house ...

22 Nov 2008