Don't know why you're getting down voted. You're telling the truth. They complain about every change. I'll admit some of the stuff on Ridge is boring at best but still.

It's struggling like all papers because of the loss of advertising and other income and certainly not what it was in the past. But imagine the city without a newspaper. Who'll investigate and report on city council and the mayor, and everything else in the city. Blogs and such don't make up for professionals who have the time to investigate complicated issues or follow up over time.

There's a dreadful cold going around.

Parkway is paying the $1 million to move it off their land so they can develop it. They weren't ever going to donate that money to anyone.

The Phillies making it to the World Series was unexpected and beautiful. Just making the wild card game came down to the end. They vastly exceeded expectations and make the fans happy.

Aerosmith. If you get squirrels in your attic, put a speaker up there and play Aerosmith. Give them a couple of hours to move out and take any babies they might have then block the hole(s) they were coming in. We nailed a cookie sheet over the hole in roof until we could get it fixed for real.

You are right that it would work at the consumer level. I can even see businesses set up to handle all the returns instead of the individual retailers. I was referring to doing it at the recycling company level - they aren't equipped to separate all the different products.

Food waste is the largest single component of household trash and we throw out about 30% of the food we buy (some is scrap like cores and peels but some is food we let go bad or just waste). Buried in a landfill it decomposes without oxygen so it produces methane as a byproduct. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas.

You need a special permit from the state to compost food waste so there are only a limited number of places that take it.

The gas needed to drive the bottles back to the plant costs more than making new bottles. Another problem is sorting nearly identical but slightly different shapes and shades of green or brown glass.

You don't want a clean bucket. Your bucket will develop an efficient microbe population that will keep the bucket from smelling and getting gross.

I misread, thank you. Saw the William I reference and not the Alfred. I see many history of England things that start counting at William and that frustrates me.

First Norman king of England. There were kings before William usurped the throne.