Last year local Realtor Tom Harper posted a picture on Instagram of a stained-glass window for a house that would be for sale soon. He didn’t include the address, writing only that the house was in the Pinkney Neighborhood and would soon be on the market. Lara Giordano, who was living in East ...

Tree wraps and guards are often recommended for protection from wildlife and weather on young trees, with placement of protective materials occurring either in late fall or at the time of planting. Wraps and guards are useful in a variety of situations, but users must also take care to remove ...

Curtis and Sydney Tebo rented their home at 909 New York St. for four years before finally convincing their landlords to sell it to them. “We had lived in the smallest house for the first couple of years I was in graduate school with our giant dogs, so we saw this house for rent, and when I ...

Hickories, oaks, walnuts and other nut-bearing trees are dropping their season’s produce now as fall arrives in northeast Kansas. These nuts are an important food source for deer, turkeys, squirrels and other wildlife in rural and urban settings. A few species are good for humans to eat, as ...

After about a year of owning their home at 645 Ohio St., Jon and Barb Heeb discovered a crawl space beneath the property. “I started going through this tiny little opening on the north wall and came across what looked like a brick dome,” Jon says. “It took me two hours to dig a trench so ...

When Conrad Altenbernd and Judy Green purchased the house at 1701 Vermont St. they intended to use it as a rental property. The previous owners had used it as an apartment complex for 40 to 50 years, and Altenbernd and Green planned to do the same. “When we bought it, it was a rental ...