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Single family home sale prices show mixed results for 2007.  Although the real estate market has not seen the gloom and doom that was widely speculated during the boom years it has been adjusting and the number of homes sold during the year dropped in most areas.  The shift in sales has been towa...

                    GUILFORD - "This town, the seventh oldest, was founded in 1639 by an oppressed but optimistic band of English Puritans.  Henry Whitfield, a minister in Ockley, near London, was the moving spirit behind their emigrations. About forty of his friends and sympathizers formed a joi...

 How many of you are starting the year with a resolution to get into better shape? You can begin at the Guilford Rotary Club's FROSTY 5k.   The 3.1 mile road race might be a little ambitious if you have not been exercising but there is a 2k Walk that should suit any fitness level. Registration op...

During the final week of the year many people will pay their property taxes due in January so they can take a tax deduction off this years income.  While you focus on the April 15th filing deadline for your income taxes you might want to consider a faster approaching deadline on February 20th to ...

So This Is Christmas!   This Christmas is Number 31 for me and my wife... After all these years of shopping I think I do fine but I need to get a little tee'd off at the quality control standards of clothing manufacturers.  When I was first married my wife was a perfect size 5...  shopping was ea...

Welcome to Tee'd Off Tuesday!   This may actually be the last one of the year unless Santa leaves me a lump of coal next week on Christmas morning!I'm a man of routine and part of my morning ritual includes reading the newspaper with a few cups of coffee.  Today the front page headlines screamed ...

 I'm Trying.... I'm Trying....  This year I just can't seem to kick myself into the mall. Ten days til Christmas so this morning I slipped into my Holiday Undies and grabbed my stack of Christmas Cash with a mission.... Shop Til I Drop!Well.... I'm still here....  The thought of aimlessly wanderi...

I'm sitting here this afternoon finally addressing all my "Holiday Cards" as the snow accumulates outside my window and as usual my mind begins to wander.  The first thing I realized as I glace from my Excel list to the envelope is the fact that I never heard the CD included with the card.  I pop...

The final two weeks have arrived.... It is Crunch Time for Christmas Shopping!This year I am way behind schedule, could be the warm weather this fall or just the usual dread of aimlessly wandering around looking to spend money of "stuff" that I know we don't need.  Maybe I'm a bit more cynical th...

 Today is race day!  The Christopher Martins 5k was my first running event when I started my latest fitness routine back in 2005.  After spending several weeks walking in preparation for a 2k Thanksgiving Day Event I enthusiastically took on running and made the rookie mistake of cramming my trai...