May 5, 2014 - Northwoods League (Northwoods) Kalamazoo Growlers Kalamazoo, Mich. - Minor league baseball is notorious for its bizarre concessions menu items. The West Michigan Whitecaps have produced crowd favorites like the "Fifth Third Burger" and "Baco", while the Battle Creek Bombers received national attention for their sweet and salty Twinkie Dog. The Kalamazoo Growlers are jumping right into the crazy concessions conversation with the introduction of the Bear Claw Burger to their inaugural menu.

The Bear Claw Burger is a half-pound Angus hamburger topped with Michigan based Ebel's barbeque pulled pork, macaroni and cheese, and coleslaw between two Sweetwater's Donut Mill bear claw donuts. This towering burger serves two people, comes with two bags of chips and is only $12 at all Kalamazoo Growlers home games.

The newly unveiled Growlers Home Plate Club will feature the Bear Claw Burger along with an array of premium food items including chicken satays, bacon-wrapped shrimp kabobs, Angus beef sliders, specialty brats, flatbreads, Sara Lee brownies, Brownie Sundaes, specialty cookies, Grand Traverse Pie, and the ballpark's full selection of beer, wine, soda, and water. Wait service is on hand in only this area to deliver orders directly to the tables. A full Growlers Growler is delivered to each table with their first order as well.

The Growlers Home Plate Club will begin renovations next week. This premium area is located directly behind home plate at the top of the general admission section. Vandam and Krusinga Building & Restoration will be constructing the entire Home Plate Area with Lowes Home Improvement providing the supplies and Rock Sold Surfaces furnishing the granite table tops. The seats in the Home Plate Club are actual seats from the legendary Camden Yards - home of the Baltimore Orioles.

The Growlers begin their inaugural 2014 season on the road as they take on the defending Northwoods League champions, the Madison Mallards on May 27th. The first home game of the year is on Friday, May 30th at Homer Stryker Stadium, when the Battle Creek Bombers come to Kalamazoo in the first of a five game home stand for the Growlers.

The Kalamazoo Growlers are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Playing its 21st season of summer collegiate baseball, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 115 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (DET) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (WAS), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Allen Craig (STL) and Ben Zobrist (TB). All league games are viewable live and free of charge via the Northwoods League YouTube channel . For more information, visit http://www.growlersbaseball.com .

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Last fall, when Dennis and Misty Glorioso renovated the Sykesville home they bought from Misty's father, one of their immediate priorities was to add hardwood floors.

The house, which was built in the early 1980s, was chopped up into several small rooms in the main living area, with floors covered in old carpet and linoleum. The Gloriosos knew they wanted a more streamlined, open-floor plan and updated floors.

When they began working with Roger Evans, the owner of Monkton-based Evans Contracting, on the renovation, the Gloriosos discovered that within the hardwood flooring category, they had a lot of choices.

Hardwood floors are classic, they learned, but that doesn't mean they're static. From vintage boards to high-tech finishes, current trends in hardwood flooring are anything but boring.

For the Gloriosos' home, Evans recommended reclaimed wood floors produced by The Woods Company, a Chambersburg, Pa.-based company specializing in vintage wood. The wood chosen, called "Antique Oak Remilled," looks natural and full of personality next to the Gloriosos' modern kitchen and eclectic mix of midcentury and modern furniture.

"I like the character," says Dennis Glorioso. "It's not perfect and doesn't have a blemish-free surface. I like the finishing a natural wood look, not a crazy shiny veneer. It looks like wood sitting on the ground, but it's sealed."

Though reclaimed and antique wood has been available for decades, use of imperfect wood floors in modern spaces is a relatively new phenomenon, says Barry Stup, who founded The Woods Company in the mid-1980s.

"In the early days, I was responding to restoration demands," he says. "People were doing old home restoration and needed the correct materials. Then time passed and people started doing new construction in a vintage style."

Stup points to popular home inspiration websites, where interest in vintage materials for everything from flooring to furnishings is flourishing.

"In the past three years, the term 'repurposed' has come into vogue you can see it on Houzz or Pinterest," he says. "There's a renewed interest in preserving and reusing materials."

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Following a year-long fundraising campaign to raise money to repair the roof on Staten Island's oldest home, construction on the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine house has begun. NY1s Amanda Farinacci filed the following report from Dongan Hills.

Moss covers many of the shingles on the roof of the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House. And those shingles not coated with the thick green natural carpet are crumbling, causing the roof to leak inside Staten Island's oldest house.

"The leak was infiltrating down through, getting right down to the floor. So, and it was in various areas. And it was spotty, it was in different spots. So that's why the whole roof has to be dealt with, said Ed Wiseman of Historic Richmondtown.

The 353-year old house on Richmond Road was home to Dutch settlers even before Staten Island was called Staten Island.

Historic Richmondtown, the not-for-profit that maintains more than 30 historic buildings all over the borough, last year enlisted the help of the community to help raise the money needed to repair the roof.

Funds raised by residents were matched by private dollars.

This week, the work finally began.

Contractors specializing in historic restoration are working section by section to replace each shingle using wood that's exactly like the wood as it originally was.

"The purpose is not to change too much. And we're not looking to replace what doesn't need to be replaced. we're looking to preserve, said Sarah Clark of Historic Richmondtown.

Historic Richmondtown acquired the house more than a hundred years ago and all of the work done in that time has been documented.

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An overnight fire in the 1200 block of West Poplar Street in West York caused damaged to several row homes. (Ted Czech -- Daily Record/Sunday News )

Tuesday night update

An early morning fire, which began at 1211 W. Poplar St. and damaged four homes and displaced 10 residents, was deemed accidental.

West York Reliance Fire Chief Ed Washington said the blaze started due to an electrical issue involving a surge protector, which was being used along with an extension cord.

Restoration will be required throughout the third floor of the four-home row including extensive work in homes 1209, 1211 and 1213, Washington said. There was minimal damage to home 1215, he added.

The cause of the fire was determined during an investigation by a state fire marshal, Washington said.

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Thomas Shortlidge said that just after 3 a.m. Tuesday, he was sleeping when he heard a noise outside and someone yell "fire."

Shortlidge, along with wife Cathy Cramer, and a friend who was staying with them, Barbara Hinton, ran out of the home at 1215 W. Poplar St., carrying their four birds, two dogs and one cat.

"I wasn't so upset at first," Shortlidge said, having endured two fires in York in the past. "I'm more concerned about the emotional damage to my very close neighbors. They're very close friends of mine, almost family."

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Pictured are Joanne Cash Yates, Tara Cash Schwoebel, Dr. Ruth Hawkins and Tommy Cash.

"It has been said you can't go home, but my brother Tommy and I had the opportunity to go home today," Yates said.

Yates and Tommy Cash, were among the guests at the VIP Inspection Tour of the Historic Dyess Colony on Friday, April 25. Also present for the event were Tara Cash Schwoebel, Johnny Cash's youngest daughter, and several Cash family members. The event was sponsored by Arkansas State University.

The boyhood home of Johnny Cash is being restored and furnished as it was when the Cash family lived at Dyess Colony. It was opened for a preview to the media, sponsors and donors as part of a VIP Inspection tour.

The Dyess Colony was a community established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s as a Depression-era agricultural resettlement colony. It was part of the New Deal program. Farmers were advanced 20 or 40 acres of farmland, a mule, a small home and money to buy food and plant crops. There was an agreement if the farmers were successful, they would pay back the government.

Ray and Carrie Cash moved their family to House #266 at Dyess Colony in 1935 where the family lived until 1954. One of their seven children, Johnny Cash, spent his growing up years at Dyess until he left to serve in the military.

The restoration of the Dyess Administration Building was the beginning of the project.

"I remember Momma saying one time when they lived in Hendersonville, she didn't think she ever wanted to go back to Dyess because the house don't look like it used to. I think maybe she is looking down from heaven and saying, 'Yeah, it does, too.'"

Tommy Cash said he was a member of the Dyess State Championship Basketball team and proud of it. Like his sister, Tommy said seeing his boyhood home restored was an emotional experience and brought back memories.

Future plans are to rebuilt the Dyess theater for a visitor/orientation center.

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BUCHANAN -- The first steps are being taken to determine the work needed to restore the 1856 Ross-Sanders home.

Buchanan City Commissioners Monday night voted to contribute $18,320 to the Chicago Art Institute's Summer Building Restoration Program.

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