The rebuilding continues in Point Pleasant Beach more than five years after Hurricane Sandy flooded 1,800 homes and damaged miles of boardwalk at this New Jersey shore town that attracts beach lovers every summer.
Rick Sawdey got the last laugh. As a child, Sawdey would occasionally lose his beloved BB gun when his dad wanted to punish him for shooting out barn windows on the family farm in Michigan.
For the past 30 years Hy-Lite has been making thousands of acrylic block windows -- one block at a time. The Florida-based operation manufactures approximately 500,000 acrylic blocks each year to include in their privacy windows.
The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation announced the addition of windows, doors and skylights to its online tool to help everyone from building professionals to consumers find energy-efficient housing products that are healthy and made locally.
Get ready. Uncle Sam’s starting to give back your money --- in the form of U.S. tax refunds. According to CNN Money, approximately eight out of ten people filing their taxes will get a refund. And, on average, those people are looking at a refund of about $2,800. What can you do with those dollars?