Decorate Your Home With These Low Maintenance Indoor Plants 

Decorate Your Home With These Low Maintenance Indoor Plants 

Indoor plants can bring life and greenery to any home, but not everyone has the time or resources to care for high-maintenance plants. If you’re looking to add some greenery to your home without the hassle of frequent watering and fertilizing the plants, here are seven low-maintenance indoor plants which you can consider to give […]

Christmas memories include an unusual Santa and a beautiful ritual

Christmas memories include an unusual Santa and a beautiful ritual

One Christmas Eve when I was eight years old, our family was gathered at our grandparents’ house to eat our traditional Polish vigil meatless meal. Carolyn Takach, of Williamsville We were singing songs in the living room when we heard jingling bells outside coming closer, then heavy footsteps on the porch and, finally, loud knocking […]

Quigley Brings Home Over $16.5 Million for Community Projects

Quigley Brings Home Over $16.5 Million for Community Projects

Projects include expanding public trails, providing law enforcement with better equipment, and supporting troubled teens   U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Committee on Appropriations and Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, announced that he has secured more than $16.5 million in Community Project Funding in the Fiscal Year 2023 […]

PSE Customers’ Electric, Natural Gas Rates to Rise Over Two Years

PSE Customers’ Electric, Natural Gas Rates to Rise Over Two Years

By Debbie Cockrell / The News Tribune Washington state regulators have approved rate increases for Puget Sound Energy’s electric and natural gas customers, taking effect Jan. 1. The action Thursday by the Utilities and Transportation Commission was the result of the panel approving three settlement agreements over a multi-year rate plan as required by the […]

The healthiest ways to light up a fireplace

The healthiest ways to light up a fireplace

Comment on this story Comment When Trystan Bass first stepped into her 1920s-era home in Oakland, Calif., she immediately noticed the focal point of the living room: a floor-to-ceiling wood-burning fireplace. “It’s gorgeous and one of the reasons I bought the house,” said Bass, 53. “But I was never going to light a fire in […]

Readers respond: ‘Clean cars’ initiative will boost health

Readers respond: ‘Clean cars’ initiative will boost health

As a doctor, I spent two decades at a clinic in downtown Portland where I worked closely with low-income and homeless populations. I saw first-hand the impacts air pollution from vehicles has on frontline communities living near major roadways. It is clear, our reliance on fossil fuels directly threatens the health and safety of all […]

Increasingly under fire as potential health hazards, gas stoves could be banned in 2023, top federal official says: ‘It’s a real possibility’

Increasingly under fire as potential health hazards, gas stoves could be banned in 2023, top federal official says: ‘It’s a real possibility’

Citing studies that link gas stoves to health problems, including asthma in children, a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission official said his agency will begin a formal review process that could lead to new regulations. “We need to be talking about regulating gas stoves, whether that’s drastically improving emissions or banning gas stoves entirely,” said […]

Wighton’s Plumbing, Heating, and Air Announces Holiday Fundraiser for SLO Food Bank

Wighton’s Plumbing, Heating, and Air Announces Holiday Fundraiser for SLO Food Bank

Wighton’s Plumbing, Heating, and Air has been serving SLO and the Central Coast since 1953, offering heating, cooling, plumbing, water heaters and more. San Luis Obispo, California – December 22, 2022 – At the request of its employees, Wighton’s Plumbing, Heating, and Air is donating 1% of revenue generated from its holiday campaign to the […]