Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Q. After years of abuse, the granite countertop in our kitchen is all scratched up and has a thin crack in one corner. Can it be repaired? A. First, determine whether you really need the crack fixed.

Q: When we remodeled our kitchen in 2005, we replaced the cabinets and added a granite countertop. We had no problems until six months ago, when I noticed that the edge of one slab was sticking out a ...

Q: I have granite countertops in my house, and in one area where a seam runs from front to back, the slab near the sink seems to have settled about a 16th of an inch lower than the slab on the other ...

MIDDLETOWN - John Ruffini is a living example of how the path to the American dream is not always a straight one. When John Ruffini's parents emigrated here from Italy in 1961, they knew very little ...