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Downtown Chippewa Falls has something for everyone

House Blend Lighting and Design Studio (215 N. Bridge St.) stocks a wide variety of lighting, original art and unique furniture. Idea (120 N. Bridge St.) offers one-of-a-kind repurposed furniture and Clockworks & Engraving (607 N. Bridge St.) has ...

Widow Margaret Tyler, 71, is a retired telephonist who has four grown-up ...

Hunting for clocks is exciting. We have picked them up from all around the world including Australia, the US and Russia. My brother and I live in a Victorian school. While we are in the headmaster's house the 25-foot high walls in the school house are ...

Germany's great outdoors: The Black Forest, wine country and Saxon Switzerland

Set amid splendid scenery, they tend to be rustic affairs, and some have strong historic credentials: the Soiernhaus in the Karwendel range is "Mad" King Ludwig II's former hunting lodge, and the Staffelalm in the Tölzer Land once provided refuge to ...

Waukesha clock restorer crazy about cuckoos

Whether it's the 20 cuckoo clocks in his home or the hundreds he has built or collected or is currently repairing in his workshop, cuckoo calls are the sound track to Galinsky's life. Owner of the Duplainville Clock Co. located at his Waukesha home ...

Dream Space: Clockmaker Marks Time at Home

If Erik Ulfers can't sleep, he won't just lie there staring at the clock. He's more likely to take one apart piece by piece and rebuild it. All he'd have to do is walk down the hall into his clock workshop—a 170-square-foot studio he built onto the ...

Rising Franc Upends Daily Life in Swiss Borderlands

The price of a three-bedroom house has risen 50% in four years. Some residents of Constance are growing irritated at the flood of Swiss bargain hunters, with shops increasingly catering to those shoppers rather than locals, says Mr. Burchardt, the mayor....

Cuckoo Journalism for a Tweetable Time

Soon enough, Mr. Hughes seems to have concluded that his fuddy-duddy journal had no future in the world of the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and Politico, websites that churn out countless bits and bytes of news, commentary and opinion around the clock....