| Your Place: Garage door balky? Some WD-40 won't hurt
Question: When the temperature is very cold, my garage door opens about a foot and then stops. If I disconnect the automatic opener, I can open the door manually without a problem. If I reconnect the opener, the door opens normally. Do you have any ideas about the cause of the problem and any possible solutions? Answer: The cold is probably to blame. When this happened a few years ago with my garage door, I lubricated the drive in the middle - where the emergency release is attached - and it fixed the problem. I think the original lubricant on the screw drive either wore off or got thicker because of the colder temperatures. I sprayed WD-40 on the screw drive, and the door opened just fine. Your problem may not be exactly like mine, but my solution is worth a try. Q: Within six months of moving into my home, I was diagnosed with asthma and eventually developed a sinus infection that recurred for 10 months.
Entries for February 2008
At the very least, why couldn't it cancel the old ticket and issue her a new one? I called Karina Romero, Amtrak spokeswoman, to find out. She says Amtrak is simply unable to replace lost tickets. "Our tickets are like money," she says. "We can't reprint them like airlines can." When I told her about the "call your parents" comment, she acknowledged that it was inappropriate and said that Karen must have caught the customer service representative on a bad day. Bad day or not, this level of customer service seems a bit lacking to me. Readers, have you had better (or worse) experiences with Amtrak? .
Waldoboro Town Manager, First Selectman Surprise Town With ...
The chair at the end of the Waldoboro selectmen's table was noticeably vacant Tuesday night as close to 100 people filed into the meeting room at the town office. Most selectmen's meetings find fewer than half a dozen citizens in attendance, and most find Town Manager Lee Smith in his seat at the end of the table.
Smith was not at the regularly scheduled select board meeting, but employment lawyer Clare Payne was in the audience as First Selectman Carleton Johnson announced that Smith had tendered his resignation, effective Jan. 1. No reason was given.
Payne was on hand as the legal counsel who helped draft the agreement, apparently in the executive session that commenced earlier that afternoon.
The resignation marks the end of Smith's 26-year career as Town Manager.
2007's organization of the year
But Monday, they hit the jackpot. The Rockies were selected organization of the year by Baseball America, which will present the award today during the winter meetings. "This is more fulfilling than any award any of us could have won," general manager Dan O'Dowd said. "It affirms the efforts of the entire organization. It is recognition of the work everyone in the organization has done, from the business side to the baseball side. "This is what our organization is about, the sum of the parts, not one individual." A Rockies team that was a consensus pick to finish fourth or fifth in the National League West for the 10th consecutive season put on the strongest season-ending push in baseball history, claimed the NL wild card and swept its way to the pennant by knocking off Philadelphia in the NL Division Series and Arizona in the NL Championship Series before being swept by Boston in the World Series.
Beyond the Arc: Winthrop smacks MVC’s rep
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Rosen cynically plays the victim card
It must be a slow day in the life of a victimized and outraged conservative columnist if he has to look at a small college 1,800 miles away to find a suitable target for his wrath ("Incubators for progressives," Feb. 8). While the president of Bergen Community College has clearly overstepped his authority when trying to impose his "Code of Responsibility" on his college, Rocky columnist Mike Rosen somehow turns the well-intentioned but misguided attempt at restoring some civility to the college community into an attack on the Constitution and an example of the Great Anti-Conservative Conspiracy at U.S. colleges. By focusing on extreme examples, he leads the reader to the conclusion that a "promise to respect every member of the college community" is akin to advocating the use of North Vietnamese-style re-education camps to force everyone to think and act alike.
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