Lifestyles

Change up your brewing method
Lifestyles
Aug 11, 2025
Dear Heloise: As a coffee professional, I'd like to add to the conversation about bitterness in coffee. The No. 1 cause of bitterness is overextractio...
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Lightening up elbow skin
Lifestyles
Aug 09, 2025
Dear Heloise: My elbows are clean but dark. I hate it! What can I do to lighten them up? — Ruth, in Minnesota Ruth, first, use a loofah or a stiff bod...
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JCC announces 2025 graduates
Lifestyles
Aug 08, 2025
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — Crystal Rose-Williams, interim vice president of Student Experience, and Jessica Kubiak, vice president of Academic Affairs, announc...
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Try this cockroach solution
Lifestyles
Aug 08, 2025
Dear Heloise: I keep a spray bottle filled with isopropyl alcohol that is set to shoot a stream -- not a mist — at any cockroaches I see in my house. ...
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Four students awarded Murphy scholarship
Lifestyles
Aug 07, 2025
OLEAN, N.Y. — Four area graduates recently received the $10,000 John J. Murphy Family Scholarship managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundati...
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Reusing greeting cards for notes
Lifestyles
Aug 07, 2025
Dear Heloise: Like Carolyn, in Dayton, Ohio, I also like to reuse items. I use the back of greeting cards for lists and notes. They are pretty and eas...
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Eating chicken that was unwrapped
Lifestyles
Aug 06, 2025
Dear Heloise: I bought a chicken at the store that was encased in clear plastic wrap. I removed the plastic wrap and was about to start dinner when my...
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Hachs marking 70 years
Lifestyles, Local News
Aug 06, 2025
Edwin and Betty Orcutt Hach of Duke Center are celebrating their 70th anniversary today. The pair were married Aug. 6, 1955. Betty was an elementary a...
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Preparing for the end of life
Lifestyles
Aug 05, 2025
Dear Heloise: Both my wife and I are in our 80s, so I've created a detailed list of things that need to get done once we pass. My list includes all of...
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