Stafford County’s fair opens this Thursday, October 15, on a brand-new set of grounds off Poplar Road. It’s one of the last county fairs on Virginia’s 2026 calendar, but there’s still time to see what makes Virginia’s fairs different. These are the things that set a Virginia county fair apart. 1. Virginia Poultry Industry Center…
By 1900, Alabama farmers were boiling down 2.6 million gallons of cane syrup a year. Many families couldn’t spare money for store-bought sugar. You’d have grown up on that syrup too, back when there wasn’t money for anything sweeter. These are the foods born from hard times that Alabamians still eat today. 1. Boiled Peanuts…
A ResumeBuilder.com survey of 978 business leaders in October 2025 found that 13% of companies planned to add required office days in 2026. Only 5% planned to cut back. These are the signs a Massachusetts employer is going to cut your remote days, based on companies that’ve already done it. 1. Paper Trail from Badge…
Greenwich’s Representative Town Meeting didn’t gavel out until half past midnight in January 2024, the night it voted 128 to 25 to put leaf-blower hours into law. That vote set a floor. Neighbors work out the rest, driveway to driveway. These are the unwritten rules about leaf-blowing hours in a Connecticut neighborhood. Note: Ordinance hours…
Veterinarians at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, warn that salt and ice-melt chemicals stuck to a dog’s paws after a winter walk can injure the skin underneath. Skipping your dog’s paw wipe-down is one of many bad habits Hoosiers unknowingly have. These are the cold-weather grooming habits (and lack thereof) that veterinarians say do…
Nebraska’s stretch of Interstate 80 runs 455 miles. The state was the first in the country to finish its entire mainline interstate system, according to Omaha news station WOWT. That’s a long drive. Nebraskans who’ve made that drive know exactly what belongs in the console and the cooler before the on-ramp. These are the things…
New York’s Division of Cemeteries says a family burial plot passes automatically to a person’s descendants, no will required, unless somebody wrote different instructions. Few people plan for the arguments that can follow. The same default rules show up across a family’s whole estate, in objects worth far less than the arguments they start. These…
A year ago, only three brands in a national customer survey scored higher than Arby’s. Now 16 do. Three of them are new to the list. Arby’s score slipped from 79 to 77 on a scale of 0 to 100. That’s two points below the fast-food average. Here’s how Ohio-born Arby’s lost its spot in…
A fenced backyard doesn’t automatically make a dog owner legally compliant in Ohio. Owners of a dog labeled dangerous now have to carry $100,000 in liability insurance on that one animal, under a law state lawmakers call Avery’s Law. That’s just one rule. These are the Ohio dog laws owners break in their own backyard….
Kroger’s start traces to a single store on Pearl Street in downtown Cincinnati in 1883. Ohio has been its home base ever since. That long history has given many Ohio shoppers years to learn Kroger’s savings system. These are the Kroger finds Ohioans secretly hoard. 1. Fuel Points That Stack at the Pump Kroger’s Fuel…
