We’ve all heard the warnings about scammers taking advantage of homeowners after the recent the ice storm.
But Sharron Townsend says we should also be alert for legitimate tree services making “honest mistakes.”
Townsend and her husband, Larry Bender, have a house surrounded by trees in Lexington’s Lansdowne neighborhood.
“A tree service came to our house BY MISTAKE [...]
“We are hearing a lot of horror stories” because of the recession, says Gene Williams, a partner in Natasha’s Bistro & Bar on The Esplanade downtown. “This is actually good news.”
Natasha’s is finishing a remodeling of its physical space and a restructuring of its business to create what Williams calls a “hybrid restaurant” that is in [...]
Politicians are known for wind power, but they have met their match at the Democratic National Convention.
The Pepsi Center in Denver uses two 24-foot Big Ass Fans to keep the temperature the same throughout the arena, the Lexington company says.
The fans were installed two years ago to prevent heated air from rising to the ceiling [...]
Members of local government tree boards from around the state met recently at the Holiday Inn North in Lexington to hear experts extol the benefits of planting trees along city streets, in parking lots and in other urban locations.
After the conference, the local government’s forester, Tim Queary, was leaving the hotel on Newtown Pike at [...]
Our Business Monday cover story on May 19 is about the potential use of Kentucky farm products like sweet sorghum to make ethanol, a gasoline additive that can reduce the demand for oil.
As we have mentioned before, there are three guys from Lexington — brothers Josh and Tomas Endicott and their business partner Ian Hill — who [...]
Those who have been reading Nicholas Kristof’s recent columns in The New York Times know he has been writing about a former Lexington businessman, Douglas McMeekin, who has been in Ecuador since the early 1980s.
McMeekin, 65, grew up in a house off Tates Creek Road where the McMeekin Place subdivision is today. He had several [...]
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