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Real Estate Matters: New Realtor association officers installed

<p class="p1"> Everyone remembers how Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickenson's "The Christmas Carol" was a miserly, penny-pinching businessman. But read the ending, where he turned out to be a giving, caring entrepreneur. </p><p class="p1">That was the ...

Not any Christmas tree will do

Whatever happened to the days of $15 Christmas trees? I’m not sure, but I do know they’re long gone, lost in the misty memory of childhood. Nowadays, the same tree is going for 50 bucks or more. I’d like to blame Obama for this, but Christmas tree inflation has been going on for decades. ...

Jazz Dog

There's not a huge back story to this photo other than the fact that I immediately started laughing when I noticed Carrie Seely had dressed her dog Uppy as the Jazz Bear.  The event I was sent to photograph was the ribbon cutting of Saratoga Springs' Neptune Park so this photo didn't run too ...

Real Estate Matters: Tips to sell your home in the Winter

<p class="p1">So you'd like to sell your home in the winter?</p><p class="p1">Actually, there are benefits to selling in the winter. Many sellers put off selling until the spring so that means less competition for you. And besides, has your home ever ...

Value Speak: Funky principles

<p class="p1">I wouldn’t say that Baroque Monkey was a bad rock group.</p><p class="p1">We were BEYOND bad. We were terrible. Abysmal would also be a good word for us. So would dreadful. We were great at being dreadful — which, come to think of it, ...

Too much exercise

Medical science increasingly has some evidence of a principal your mother warned you about: there really is too much of a good thing.A few folks throw themselves headlong into aerobic exercise. Most of these hard-core endurance athletes start young. Many fall by the wayside in middle age, but ...

So Long Sidelines

High school football finals are an exciting time for us photographers. For one, they are chock-full of intense action and powerful emotion. The photographer's proverbial fish-in-a-bucket. The other reason we are joyous is that it means a reprieve from night games on pitch-black high school ...

Real Estate Matters: Provo ordinances and rentals

<p class="p1">This past weekend I received a call from a potential buyer about a townhouse in Provo.</p><p class="p1">"We're from out of town," she explained, "and here just for the weekend."</p><p class="p1">Her voice was ...

How to prevent a purse snatch

Advice from University Mall management about how to avoid theft while Christmas shopping included an admonition to women who carry a purse: Keep it strapped securely to yourself or to a shopping cart.I can vouch for this because my wife was the victim of a purse-snatcher at a Provo grocery ...