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On October 11, 360 Painting, a Chelsea business specializing in a range of painting services, celebrated a significant milestone with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Ugly Dog Distillery.

Phil DeWester, the owner of 360 Painting along with his wife Debbie, took the opportunity to share the scope and philosophy of his company. "We are a local painting company providing interior and exterior painting, including cabinet refinishing and deck staining to residential and commercial customers," he stated.

The celebration also served as an acknowledgment of the company's expansion and one-year presence in the Dexter and Chelsea communities. Phil and Debbie acquired 360 Painting of Ann Arbor in 2017 and have since broadened its reach, which now extends from Chelsea to Canton and as far north as Novi.

DeWester shared insights into their decision-making process, emphasizing the personal drive that led to their involvement in the home services sector. When evaluating different business opportunities, Debbie and I found that we had a lot of passion for home services," he recalled. The duo's experience with home renovations underscored the need for dependable contractors, which drives their company's commitment to exceptional customer servicea commitment that has earned them numerous five-star Google reviews and the confidence to offer a top-tier 2-year warranty.

The ceremony was supported by the Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce and hosted by Ugly Dog Distillery.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. Workers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, at J. Strom Thurmond Project have begun work to inspect and re-paint approximately 50 miles of the existing boundary line trees with bright orange paint, normally a 4-inch band around half of each tree. The work will continue through the autumn and winter and wrap up before spring arrives.

R&D Maintenance Services, a contractor with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, uses bright orange paint to make boundary line witness trees more visible and easier to identify, as well as trimming heavy brush to clear the boundary line between witness trees. This routine boundary maintenance does not move present property lines. The work makes existing property lines more visible. Workers scrape old paint off the trees and apply fresh paint on witness trees to mark the boundary line. If in-ground boundary survey pins are not visible, workers will dig where pins were placed to expose them.

This year, crews will start work in Lincoln County near Double Branches Road, by the Knox Boy Scout Camp and end north of Highway 378, near Dunaway. The work will encompass boundary line in Pleasant View Estates, Maxim Village, Maxim, Wells Creek, Lakeview, Long Leaf, Joy Acres, Whitstone, Parton, Azalea and Dunaway Estates Subdivisions and Soap Creek Marina.

Painted trees are a guide to locating the physical boundary pins installed in the ground, Heather Killips, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Thurmond Lake shoreline chief ranger, said. When buying property or planning to build on your land adjacent to public property, a professional survey is a good investment. Monument pins should never be disturbed from their permanent locations. If you dont see a pin, please call our office so we can help you and correct the situation.

Contractors will complete the work on foot with hand tools. In most cases, workers will avoid crossing onto private property. In the event the contractor cannot access public land without first crossing over private property, all efforts will be made to contact the owner for permission, and to avoid impacts to private property. To make the boundary line less obtrusive in adjacent subdivisions, the witness tree blaze width is reduced to 2 inches and painted on one quarter of the tree. The marked trees do not delineate the exact boundary; instead, they witness the approximate boundary line. The exact line can only be located by surveying the monuments and pins.

Its important to know the location of the boundary line when removing trees or vegetation from private property, Killips said. Its illegal to remove trees from public land without a permit. Its like going on your neighbors property and removing their trees. If trees are removed without permission, the penalty can be a combination of fines and a requirement to replace trees.

Adjacent property owners should remove any personal property items which may have wandered across the government line, and pets should not be unattended on public land, especially when workers are present. For questions or concerns call the Thurmond Lake office at 800-533-3478, ext. 1140.

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Starting Jan. 1, Worcester County landfills will increase the tipping fee for dumped refuse from $70 per ton to $80, and add a $20 removal charge for each paint or petroleum-product can.

At the commissioners meeting on Nov. 7, members voted 6-1 to approve a request from the public works department to amend the new fees into the Worcester County Solid Waste Enterprise Funds Fiscal Year 2024 operating budget. Commissioner Joe Mitrecic voted against the change because of the can-dumping fee.

Director of Public Works Dallas Baker said at the meeting that local hauling companies asked for the change in the refuse tipping fee because it would streamline the process.

Right now, when people come up (and) dump their waste, we charge different rates for refuse, for construction demolition, for some various other things, Baker said. The $80 will make it consistent with pretty much 90 percent of the material thats dumped.

As the system is now, after a truck dumps a load that is half refuse and half construction demolition, landfill workers must verify the cost based on the different rates associated with different dumped materials, Baker said. Haulers then have to return to the landfill to pay.

The haulers are interested in trying to get in and out of the landfill as quick as possible, Baker said.

Baker said that the $20 fee for paint and petroleum-product cans comes in response to an increased number of the cans getting dumped at county landfills, while the cans are not allowed to be disposed there.

The fee is an attempt to discourage illegal dumping and also helps pay for the extra labor that landfill workers contribute when theyre forced to remove the cans, Baker said.

Baker said public works would have a proper place to unload the cans without charging the $20 fee.

Mitrecic said that while he agrees with the tipping fee increase, he thinks that the fee would instead motivate contractors to dump cans in municipal trash receptacles instead.

No disrespect to those guys up there on the hill because they do a great job, but I dont really see them jumping out and picking up paint cans as opposed to picking up tires, Mitrecic said.

Tires are not allowed to be dumped in landfills and must be removed as well.

Mitrecic said he would not support the motion because he thinks the paint can problem could be solved another way.

Baker said hauling companies have told him that they try to tell contractors not to put illegal material in dumpsters, but some contractors hide the items under landfill-allowed refuse anyway.

Weve been having commercial haulers bringing in 20 and 40 yard bins half filled with paint cans and dumping them large scale, Baker said.

The Maryland Department of the Environment could fine the landfill if it found that these kinds of cans were being dumped there, he said.

Baker said that if haulers tell landfill personnel they have paint cans, the workers will direct them to another area to drop off the cans, and in that case the haulers would not be charged a fee.

I understand what youre up against but I also understand that if you ever put a 40-yard dumpster out in front of a job site, you could end up with grills, lawn chairs, paint cans and whatever else anybody in the neighborhood happens to have that they want to get rid of, Mitrecic said.

Mitrecic said that educating haulers and contractors would be a better option.

Baker said that public works could send educational letters to haulers, as well as post information on the county website and social media. However, Baker said that recently public works warned a company to stop dumping illegal items, and the company dumped more the next day.

Id much rather take that approach. The message just isnt getting through, Baker said.

Baker said that since the changes goes into effect Jan. 1, contractors and haulers have a two-month buffer to learn about the incoming fee changes, and dumpsters that are currently on construction sites likely wouldnt be affected.

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Good morning. Its Thursday. Well get a look at some of the most popular galleries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which are about to reopen after a five-year renovation project. Well also find out what the chairman of the House Ethics Committee said about its investigation of Representative George Santos.

To renovate the galleries where it displays European paintings from the 1300s to the 1800s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art first had to clear 130,000 square feet of space almost twice as much as in the entire White House.

That meant moving 679 priceless paintings and 112 other works of art sculptures, furniture, musical instruments, even a sword.

Then a patchwork of drop cloths went down, and a forest of scaffolding went up. Doors were shifted a few feet to the left or the right, improving the sight lines in some of the galleries. About 1,400 skylights on the roof were replaced, many for the first time in 84 years. More than 7,000 glass panels in the ceilings of the 45 galleries were also replaced. Contractors did masonry repairs and repointing on interior and exterior walls. A new heating and air-conditioning system was installed, with more than 5,000 linear feet of ductwork.

All that took five years with a budget of $150 million, and then the art had to be moved back. Redoing the walls took 900 gallons of paint two shades of blue, along with red, purple and gray for the trim. Rehanging the paintings took 10,000 feet of wire.

The ribbon to be cut at a ceremony tonight is 18 feet long.

And, starting Monday, museum goers can climb the marble steps just past the Great Hall and see the Rembrandts and Vermeers.

They are not where they were. Stephan Wolohojian, the curator in charge of the Mets department of European paintings, said the renovation had let the Met reconceptualize the presentation of the collection through a fresh lens.

So now the paintings appear in chronological order. They used to be arranged by nationalities the Italian paintings were grouped together, separate from the Dutch, the French, the German and the Spanish. Were not just throwing everything upside down and seeing where it lands, Wolohojian said. There is real order.

That is not the only change. The galleries have been renumbered, so Gallery 602, for example, is to your left if youre facing the west side of Gallery 601, not ahead and to the right. The Met says the new numbering complements the chronological layout.

The Met managed to do the renovation without closing all the galleries by scheduling the work in phases. Not until March of this year were all 45 galleries off limits to visitors at the same time.

As job sites go, said Michael Dominick, the Mets senior associate building manager for infrastructure, this one was essentially the size of a city block. The panels for the skylights and the ceilings and the ductwork had to be hoisted in by a crane parked on the Central Park side of the Met.

The Met put a premium on efficiency and sustainability. Dominick said the three wings that house the 45 galleries were the biggest energy consumers at the museum. The improved efficiency of the new system is expected to save millions of dollars for the city, which pays the Mets utility bills.

The new heating and cooling system will also save more than 1,700 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, the equivalent of taking 360 automobiles off the streets. The skylights alone will trim the Mets overall carbon footprint by 7 percent, a significant reduction from a change that most visitors will never notice.

The skylight project was high on a list of deferred maintenance and repair work that the Met compiled a decade ago. Dominick said condensation on the old skylights could drip on the ceiling panels and into the galleries. To prevent that, the Met turned the thermostats up to a blazing 120 degrees in the attic, the giant and mostly open space between the skylights and the galleries. Such temperature settings will no longer be necessary.

As for where the paintings went while the renovations were going on, the Met played a game of musical masterpieces, shuffling many to temporary locations in other parts of the museum.

But huge paintings by the 18th-century Venetian Giovanni Battista Tiepolo didnt go anywhere. They couldnt they are too big. One, Triumph of Marius, measures 18 feet by 10 feet and is the largest item in the European painting galleries. The Tiepolos never came off the walls the Met painted around them, very carefully.

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The House Ethics Committee will not push to expel Representative George Santos.

Representative Michael Guest, the chairman of the ethics panel, said it would not make a recommendation on Santoss fate. Attempting to do so would have lasted well into next year, he said.

Beyond that, Guest, a Republican from Mississippi, said he would not characterize the committees findings.

He said the committees report, which could be released as early as today, would provide House members the information they need to decide on whether a penalty is appropriate for Santos. The panel has been investigating a range of allegations of criminal and ethical violations, including accusations that Santos fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits, failed to properly file financial disclosures, sexually harassed an employee and violated conflict of interest laws.

Santos has already survived two expulsion attempts in the House, the second just two weeks ago, when a group of New York Republicans pushed for a floor vote. That measure was soundly defeated, with numerous Democrats voting not to expel Santos on the grounds that removing him while an ethics investigation and a criminal proceeding were underway would set a dangerous precedent.

On Wednesday Representative Nick LaLota, a Republican from New York, said that he would reintroduce a motion to expel Santos once the ethics committees report had been made public and his colleagues had been given a chance to absorb it. He said he expected the revived resolution to have a better chance of passing.

Santos has resisted calls for his resignation and has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a 23-count federal indictment that includes allegations of money laundering, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

METROPOLITAN diary

Dear Diary:

It was summer 1980, and I was a 19-year-old college student working as a part-time teller for what was then Greater New York Savings Bank at a branch in Flatbush.

I worked around 20 hours a week, earned $3.35 an hour and, as I recall, took home around $45 in a typical week. Because I lived at home, that was good money.

My hours included working on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. One Saturday, I was told another teller was needed at a different branch. To make the assignment more palatable, my manager gave me $5 for lunch and $20 for a taxi.

Never one to miss an opportunity, I went to the deli next door and bought a bagel with cream cheese for $1 and a soda for 50 cents. Then I got on the subway for 60 cents.

Needless to say, after that I always volunteered to travel to other branches when a fill-in was needed. The other tellers just couldnt understand it.

Rudyard F. Whyte

Illustrated by Agnes Lee. Send submissions here and read more Metropolitan Diary here.

Glad we could get together here. See you tomorrow. J.B.

P.S. Heres todays Mini Crossword and Spelling Bee. You can find all our puzzles here.

Kellina Moore and Ed Shanahan contributed to New York Today. You can reach the team at nytoday@nytimes.com.

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