Recession creates remodeling competition, also lawsuit risk: Lack of worker’s compensation, liability insurance by new ...

RACINE COUNTY — As if making a living wasn’t tough enoughalready, remodeling contractors say the recession has produced aflood of new competition from the unemployed.

Some Salem-Keizer schools have a new look

"On the count of three — one, two, three. Move that bus!" yelled Principal Phil Decker in a mock "Extreme Makeover" school edition at Four Corners Elementary last week.

Home Forge Remodeling Continues Climb Up Rankings

Atlanta - Home Forge Remodeling (www.homeforgeremodeling.com) is becoming the “go to remodeler” in Atlanta. The company is climbing up the list of “Atlanta’s Top 20 Residential Remodeling Contractors” from the Atlanta Business Chronicle, this year moving from #17 on the list to #13.

Ti Heritage Museum expands with new exhibit

Attendance at Ticonderoga's Heritage Museum is up this summer following the release of an interactive new exhibit.

Renovation resurgence

According to Anthony Guidarelli of Guidarelli Construction Inc., that means "it's an especially good time for owners to be remodeling and renovating." People aren't motivated to buy new now, so if owners have some good equity in their existing home -- if they purchased it at a fair market value before the boom -- they're staying put, pulling out some of that equity and reinvesting it into the ...