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Vermont Roadside Mural Still StandsBellows Falls’ handpainted barn mural withstands legislative scrutiny.
The Vermont legislature has agreed that handpainted murals on barns, as long as they’re not visible from an interstate, are painted on structures more than 25 years old and are part of a designated downtown program (and are within three miles o . . . » MORE |
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Justice, Sandwich-board StyleA judge makes law-breakers spread some love.
Two feuding Michigan men have such difficulty being neighborly that a judge had to intervene with some unorthodox tactics. For violating nuisance ordinances and disturbing the peace, which violated their probation for earlier misdeeds, the men were s . . . » MORE |
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Some artists brighten our lives. And, some don’t.Artists John Alvin, Viktor Schreckengost and Boyd Coddington
She was a fine-art student, “a painter,” she said, who worked in acrylics on canvas. I, then, was a young-at-heart design student. This was, oh, 1980 or so, at the University of Colorado campus at Boulder. She was pretty, petite, sea-gree . . . » MORE |
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Aristech Acrylics Acquired by SK Capital PartnersFlorence, KY-based manufacturer of continuously cast acrylic sheets is purchased by a NYC-based private-equity firm.
Aristech Acrylic LLC (Florence, KY) has been acquired by SK Capital Partners LP, a NYC-based private-equity firm specializing in the specialty-chemical industry. Principals of SK Capital have been interested in investing in Aristech for many years. When Mitsubishi . . . » MORE |
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A Sign SurvivesA Heritage Trails marker describing the World Trade Center will live on as a lasting tribute.
The sign at the cover of Church and Cortlandt streets in New York City once cheerfully boasted, “What has 200 elevators, 1,200 restrooms, 40,000 doorknobs, 200,000 lighting fixtures, 7 million square feet of acoustical tile ceilings, more struc . . . » MORE |
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Remember the AlamoAnd, keep an eye on the back door.
History abounds with stories of battles lost because someone left the back door open. One classic example is the Battle of the Alamo, because of amazing shortsightedness on both sides. Few know that in 1836, just prior to the battle, Sam Houston, the . . . » MORE |
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In Memoriam: The Sign Man of Shea (1924-2008)Karl Ehrhardt celebrated the best and worst of the Mets' moments.
Choosing from roughly 1,200 block-lettered, color-coded, tabbed signs, Karl Ehrhardt, dubbed the “Sign Man of Shea,” celebrated and ballyhooed the plays of his beloved Mets from his box seat behind third base at Shea Stadium. Ehrhardt die . . . » MORE |
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In Memoriam: Lola Grey1921-2008
Lola Grey, who dedicated her life to helping the less fortunate and who was co-collaborator of Esoteric Sign Supply, passed away January 21. She was 86. Lola was born March 25, 1921 in Yuma, Az. She spent most of her adult life in Wilmington, CA, hos . . . » MORE |
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Advocacy 101To grow your business, plan an advocacy program.
Wade Swormstedt, ST’s publisher/editor, always handpicks the staff’s Christmas presents. This year, he gave me two, cool, Harley-Davidson collectors’ edition books. One, The Ultimate Machine (Harley’s 100th-Anniversary Edition . . . » MORE |
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Bright Ideas in the Lone Star StateTexan mayors meet to discuss the environment.
States have official mottos, flowers, birds, even rock songs. And at the Texas Energy Conservation Summit, the mayors of Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Houston and Austin voiced their support for naming an official lightblub for Texas: the compa . . . » MORE |
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