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Beachy-keen gift ideas for Christmas
Dear Santa, I figure you must have a pretty hard time finding all those presents for everyone, so I thought I’d help you out. Here are some things I especially like because they’re quick, easy and inexpensive. And you can find many of them right here in the Beach. Calendars There are lots of fancy [...]
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Even old houses can turn green
Renovating an old house is bad enough. Renovating an old house to be as environmentally-friendly as possible – well, that’s a giant job. But that’s what Beacher Keely Kemp decided to do when she bought a 1917 fixer-upper some three years ago. The house had been vacant for several years, and had been in the [...]
An accolade to awesome Beach porches
One of the very best things about the Beach is all the front porches in our neighbourhood. I fell in love with porches decades ago, playing with my cousins in the rain on their front porch in the tiny Midwestern U.S. town where my dad—and I—were born. I was a suburban Texas kid by that [...]
