When Candice Glibbery and her boyfriend, Troy Ingenito, decided it was time to move out of separate residences in Ronkonkoma, Hempstead Village wasn't the first place they'd thought to look for a co-op. But then they started pricing what was out there.

Glibbery, 24, a visual merchandiser who designs the showroom floor for the Massapequa Ethan Allen store, says she started looking online, and "everything was in the $200,000 to $300,000 range" -- but most were old apartments that needed renovation.

Then, Glibbery says, "I saw this place" -- Cedar Valley Apartments, a 1966-era building at 20 Wendell St. in Hempstead offering newly renovated co-ops. "The prices were much lower; the building had new everything," she says. "I came here on my lunch hour just to see the building.

January 2008

I am seriously cranked I am missing SNOWDEATHSTORM2008! in Spokane. I LOVE big snow, the bigger the better. I was 10/11 when Spokane's biggest SNOWDEATHSTORM hit in 1968/69 and have the fondest memories of missing weeks of school that winter and sledding every day with my buddies. It was glorious. A true winter wonderland. That was the winter the dress code for girls in the Central Valley School District requiring skirts and dresses was suspended to permit the gals to don pants due to the frigid cold and deep snow. The next year the school district tried to reinstate the code but the kids and parents told them to go to hell. After the Winter of Love, man, it wasn't groovy to be uptight about pants and jeans, man/The Unbearable Bobness of Being. More here.

Safety fear could push bike tours off summit

WAILUKU » A preliminary assessment does not seem to bode well for bicycle tours at Haleakala National Park.

Park Superintendent Marilyn Parris said the draft assessment by a federal safety panel found bicycle tours pose among the highest risks of recreational injury and accidents in national parks.

Parris suspended bicycle tours in the park on Oct. 10, after a couple of fatal accidents, and is planning to arrive at a decision about the future of the activity at Haleakala by mid-March.

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the undercover economist

In the late 1870s, a magician named Buatier de Kolta was mesmerizing audiences in Paris with the trick of producing big bunches of paper flowers from an empty roll of paper. Nobody knew how the trick was achieved, until a stray gust of wind blew one of the flowers onto the floor in front of the stage. A magician in the audience seized it and ran out, and de Kolta's trick was soon being performed by many of his rivals.

The research bears—albeit obliquely—on an issue that is only going to become more important: intellectual property in a world where more and more of the wealth that is created takes the form of ideas rather than objects.

Here from beginning to the end

It was 1935 and Birmingham and the country were in the thralls of the Great Depression.

During that economically challenging time then-Birmingham Post Editor Jimmy Mills knew the newspaper had to do more than deliver printed words and bold headlines to the public. Many families, after all, couldn't afford to put food on the table, much less buy a newspaper.

So Mills started the Goodfellows program which bought candy and fruit for needy youths. It evolved into a program that delivered fruit and toys to needy Birmingham-area around Christmas each year.

It would be the Post's, later to become the Post-Herald's, first foray into community service, but not its last.

Since then, the Post-Herald has sponsored various community service projects from the State Spelling Bee to the All-State Academic Team to the Kudzu Run and Car Show to the Distinguished Teachers Awards to the Scholar-Athlete Awards.