Little ways you might improve your financial life
Some things to think about this year… and every year.
By: Steve Zimmerman
Financial Advisor
This is the year! Yes, you can make 2011 the year you alter financial life for a better financial future. Let’s look at some steps you might think of taking with the goal of financial freedom [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
Even while fighting to ensure that the wealthiest among us keep their Bush tax cut, House Republicans just voted to deny any extension of unemployment benefits. I suppose it does not matter unless you are on unemployment but if so, what a Christmas present from conservatives. More important is what such a move [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
We were blessed, well, maybe blessed is not the correct word here, with a broad overview of the sweeping changes proposed by the leaders of the Deficit Reduction Panel this week. Frankly, in looking over the details, I agree with Gerald Seib, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, who wrote, “Deficit-Cutting Chairmen [...]

FROM WEALTH ACCUMULATION TO WEALTH PRESERVATION

A retirement transition might call for a shift in your investment approach.

provided by: Steve Zimmerman
Financial Advisor

Time passes … and priorities change. When you approach retirement, your investment mindset may have to be modified. If you are in your thirties or forties, the goal is accumulation – investing [...]

Do you know what the Pilgrims were thanking God for at the first Thanksgiving celebration in Plymouth? If you go to Wikipedia you will not find the answer.
It was not to thank the Native Americans for saving their butts although they did teach the Pilgrims how to grow corn and beans. The natives also stole [...]

Ah, it is that time that women slave for hours and sometimes days to make a sumptuous Thanksgiving dinner.  If it is a success, the meal is consumed faster than Superman can change into his tights.
It is also that time to get together with relatives and /or friends that we haven’t seen for a while. [...]

The Green Column
by Richard C. MacCrea, Andrews Valley Initiative
rmaccrea1@gmail.com
Are You Thankful, or Are You Appreciative?
The difference is action. Do you want to just be thankful, or do you want to do something about it? Just think how many people celebrate their thankfulness: by over-consuming. Is that a good idea?
First, there are many who do not [...]

Clay County Deed Transactions
11/1/2010-11/05/2010

Richard William Boyd, Jr. sold 55 acres to The United Community Bank in Shooting Creek Township for $278,500 on November 1,2010.
Lillian Giuffrida sold  Lots 86 & 87 Daniel Lusham, Stephen Schorr and Donna Schorr  in Brasstown Township for $203,000 on November 2, 2010.
Wayne C. McClure and Marilyn F. McClure sold 2 [...]

Clay County Deed Transactions
11/1/2010-11/05/2010

Richard William Boyd, Jr. sold 55 acres to The United Community Bank in Shooting Creek Township for $278,500 on November 1,2010.
Lillian Giuffrida sold  Lots 86 & 87 Daniel Lusham, Stephen Schorr and Donna Schorr  in Brasstown Township for $203,000 on November 2, 2010.
Wayne C. McClure and Marilyn F. McClure sold 2 [...]

Girl Scouts staying Busy
The girls of Clay County Girl Scout Troop 30201 stayed busy on October 29th even though it was a student holiday. The girls’ morning started by delivering food they had collected to the Clay County Food Pantry which feeds hundreds of people every month. While the girls have collected and have done other projects to [...]