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There are 13 boxes of macaroni and cheese in our pantry right now. There are also another six packages of an easily microwaveable one, and two boxes of shells and cheese.
If you’re thinking we must have elementary children doing our grocery shopping, you’re half right. They are making the list.
While our overflowing stash of cheesy goodness might help us through a preteen apocalypse, it highlights a growing problem with our family’s shopping habits.

More people are trading in commutes and cubicles for couches and coffee shops: As of 2016, 43 percent of employees worked remotely at least part of the time, up from 39 percent in 2012, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report.
For small businesses that don’t need employees onsite, high-speed internet, communication apps, and video conferencing make it easier to hire people located virtually anywhere. But forming relationships with remote workers may be more challenging.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Pat Read enjoyed life on her own in her Northern California home after her two kids left for college, graduated, started their careers and set themselves up in their own apartments.
But about a year ago, stuff happened. Her children were hit by soaring rents, and her family faced a situation that is becoming familiar to many parents in the Bay Area and is transforming how people live together in the United States.

A week ago this past Friday night, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast, with winds topping 130 mph. The winds were devastating enough, but the real damage Harvey has inflicted, and continues to inflict, was due to the tremendous rainfall and flooding. A rain gauge near Highland, Texas, registered 51.88 inches of rain, breaking the record for the continental U.S.
Harvey meandered back and forth, making another landfall as a tropical storm Wednesday morning near Cameron, Louisiana, still dumping tremendous amounts of rain.

The trend of the real estate market in Allen County is shown by the following report, for the week running Aug. 24 to Aug. 30. Figures reflect the selling price of the property, along with the address or lot number of same and are courtesy of Allen County Recorder Mona Losh’s Office.
CITY OF LIMA
• Anthony G. Bailey to Patrick Sandoe, 112 E. Robb Ave., Lima, $53,500.
• Marcia K. Barnett FKA Marcia K. Rhoades and Lonnie Michael Barnett to Nicholas L. Reynolds, 1547 W. Wayne St., Lima, $82,000.

Debt settlement isn’t the Wild West industry it was a decade ago, when people routinely paid hefty upfront fees to companies that failed to deliver any relief.
Thanks to increased regulation and enforcement, the much smaller number of settlement companies that remain often do what they promise: persuade at least some of a borrower’s creditors to forgive part of the debt, typically in exchange for a lump sum payment.

Recent flooding in the Houston, Texas, area brought us hours of television and online footage of that region’s coping.
One image that became popular in that recent media coverage was a photograph of a case of bottled water marked with a price that was over twice its pre-disaster price. Everyone seemed to have an opinion of the propriety of charging extra for water during an emergency when drinkable water becomes scarcer. Are increased prices in this context simple capitalism, or is it “price gouging”?

Rates for 30-year and 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages with zero points as of noon, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017:
30 YR / 15 YR RATE %
First Federal Bank
3.75 / 3.00 %
First National Bank
3.875 / 3.125 %
Partners 1st Credit Union
3.875 / 3.25 %
State Bank
3.75 / 3.00 %
Superior Credit Union
3.625 / 3.00 %
TopMark Federal Credit Union
4.00 / 3.25 %
Union Bank
3.75 / 3.00 %

JEMEZ SPRINGS, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico village is holding a festival in connection with a legend that Bigfoot is roaming around the state’s Jemez Mountains.
The Los Alamos Monitor reports the village of Jemez Springs is hosting the Bigfoot BBQ & Blues Fest on Saturday to celebrate rumors the ape-like creature hangs around the forests near one of the nation’s premier nuclear labs.

Ada 34, Arlington 20
Akr. Coventry 41, Carrollton 7
Akr. East 60, Akr. Springfield 6
Akr. Hoban 31, Youngs. Mooney 13
Akr. SVSM 28, Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 8
Alliance Marlington 41, Ravenna 7
Amanda-Clearcreek 17, Cols. East 6
Amherst Steele 35, Lakewood 18
Anna 49, Brookville 12
Arcadia 51, Ridgeway Ridgemont 12
Ashland Mapleton 49, Wellington 19
Ashtabula Lakeside 14, Madison 9
Ashville Teays Valley 35, Logan 7
Avon 31, Olmsted Falls 7
Barberton 54, Akr. Kenmore 6