A 97-year-old widow had no idea how she was going to get the rope on her 20-foot-tall flagpole fixed so she could continue flying the American flag and a U.S. Marine Corps flag (in honor of her late husband) outside her home in Portland, Maine.
David Hall of Utah bought hundreds of acres in four towns in east central Vermont in hopes to building a high-tech "sustainable" community with a low carbon footprint.
But residents of the towns didn't thin much of the plan, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation "put the four towns affected by his plan on 'watch status,' meaning their historic nature is being threatened," according to Seven Days.
