Free local workshops on repairing lamps and pruning roses highlight this week’s event offerings. In our throwaway culture, it’s often more cost-effective to replace than to repair a broken item. But ...

A broken antique swing-arm floor lamp collected years of tarnish in Adrienne Punturiero's Village of Hamburg basement. Until Sunday afternoon when Punturiero dared to repair it. She brought the brass ...

For years, I have had a small, old white lamp that I really love. It weighs about 12 pounds and was given to me by a female friend who shares my love for old white junk. (Some people call it “shabby ...

Tensions ran high on Sunday night outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, where about 20 to 30 protestors gathered along Beach Street. Despite a medical condition ...

Saturday’s free event in Santa Rosa was meant to demonstrate the value and possibility of mending or restoring worn items rather than disposing of them. A woman with a wobbly lamp said the waste bin ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.