While candidates spend their last few weeks campaigning for the White House  seat, they may want to focus their efforts on America’s retirement-age voters.

Are you preparing your home for sale, but need to update your appliances, replace your carpet, or spruce up your lawn and garden? If you wait until your dishwasher dies, you could be missing out on big savings.

Going green has been a hot topic on the campaign circuit. But while  conservation and environmental diligence are making headlines at the moment, protecting the environment has been a year-round commitment at Oak Crest, a Parkville-based retirement community.

Don’t throw out that chair with the wobbly leg or ditch that table that has lost its luster just yet. Stop by the Oak Crest wood shop where, for a nominal fee, they’ll have your furniture looking like new again.

Five years ago Ethel Darragh, a retired community health nurse from Ellicott City, could never in her wildest dreams have imagined she would one day be directing a theatrical production—that is, until she moved to Charlestown.