Morgan Manor South (Sparks, MD)
By Derek Massey
(Mid-Atlantic Settlement Services)
I have continuously been intrigued by a blog post penned by the inimitable Seth Godin in January of this year.  In that post called "Time to start a newspaper", he suggests that real estate brokers ...wait for it..... start a local newspaper. Last night I witnessed a variation on this theme:  Some local real estate professionals (myself included) help to break a story that we couldn't get any information about from the "real" news sources.  Maybe not "break," but at least inform others as to what was going on. It all started about 8:30 last night when I noticed helicopters flying around my rather rural neighborhood and shining lights in people's backyards (mine included).  "Rural" might be an understatement.  Where I live, police helicopters don't just start flashing lights on people's ...
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By Derek Massey
(Mid-Atlantic Settlement Services)
Confession time: I came late to the recycling game.  We bought our first house in 2003 in a town where there was no curbside pickup for either trash or recycling, yet the transfer station made it very easy to drop off each.  Despite this ease of use, we only "dabbled" in the art of separation.  Sure, if we had a party and needed to dispose of excess cans, bottles or boxes, we'd recycle. But it never became part of the "plan." That changed in 2006.  My brother-in-law and sister-in-law moved in with us for a summer on the heels of a relocation to NH from VT.  Said brother-in-law (Jarrett Duncan, now an Associate in the Administrative Law department of a prestigious NH law firm) had been on us for a while about recycling.  Finally, fed up with seeing mountains of recycleables hauled off t...
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