A reader asked the following question: “I’m in my 80’s. Should I lease my next car or should I finance it like I’ve done before?” There are advantages to leasing. Less hassle. You can turn the vehicle in at the end of the lease period, pay any end-of-lease payments, and walk away. Lower initial costs. Usually
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For the first 50 years of my life whenever I thought about Florida, I pictured a Buick lumbering down Interstate 95 with its left blinker on from Brooklyn to Boca. The soft occupants of the car, able in the 20th century to retire in their early 60s, were annoyingly referred to as snowbirds … or
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I am writing this month’s article. All of your events will be noted and written about. I hope to have lots of messages from our Hamptonites. We have a lot of new residents in the Hamptons, and hope they will contact me with their occasions and recent activities. We unfortunately had some losses in the past
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The New York Times started in 1851 and for 145 years it only had its print edition. When, in 1996, something called the “internet” starts to be used by the general public and the Times realized that it needed to be there as well. So it set up a website. Over the next 10 years,
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What is it and what does it do? The POA is the MASTER Association of Aberdeen. Aberdeen has 24 communities or villages (also referred to as Home Owners associations or HOAs) and also has the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club. The POA has a Board of Directors as does every HOA and as does the
By: George Spiro (Ashford) ASHFORD’S GEORGE SPIRO IN WWII In 1943, at age19, I enlisted in the Army Sig-nal Corps and at Ft. Monmouth, NJ, trained on the maintenance of radio receivers and transmitters. I shipped out to England in Jan. 1944, 6 months be-fore D-day. I was assigned to Patton’s Third Army (3rd) which
[wptab name=’Questions’] 1. What was Fonzie’s first name? 2. What show included in its intro: “Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear”? 3. What 8 words followed: “Look Up in the sky—”? 4. What show introduced Jose Jimenez to the world? 5. Who were Rob and Laura Petrie’s next-door neighbors? 6.
By: Bea Lewis (Lancaster) Is it crazy that I didn’t want to clear out Ed’s closet? After all, wouldn’t any woman want an extra closet, so she wouldn’t have to stuff all her clothes and shoes into just one small space? It took me about 6 months before I could even think about it. As
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By: Bob Tanenbaum I’m starting to breathe easily again. At last, blood is flowing to my brain. The fog is lifting. In other words, baseball’s almost here. I die every November and am resurrected on or around the eve of Opening Day. Fifteen box scores to digest almost every day. Now that’s living. How much
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