HANDYMAN ON CALL
Regrading helps keep water out
(By Peter Hotton, 02/14/99)
Q. My split ranch roof has a a three-foot overhang on all four sides of the hip roof. Recent rains channeled water to the foundation and we got water in the basement, and there is a crack in the foundation. The foundation is exposed three to four feet from ground to siding. Is there an easy way to stop this water?

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
A last chance to see those Oscar 'gowns'
(By Virginia Bohlin, Globe Correspondent, 02/14/99)
Some of the most glamorous - and sometimes outrageous - fashions worn to the Academy Awards over the years will be auctioned March 18 by Christies's to benefit the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

LOTS & BLOCKS
Age is not important
(By Jennifer Babson and Richard Kindleberger, Globe Staff, 02/14/99)

HOME: OF THE WEEK
Boston living - at Medway prices
(By Doreen Iudica Vigue, Globe Staff, 02/14/99)
MEDWAY - Caught in the home building boom of its larger neighbors, Franklin and Bellingham, Medway is a growing community, yet a quintessential New England village.

Housing matters in Daher's court
For more than 25 years, judge has guided one of state's scrappiest systems
(By Jennifer Babson, Globe Correspondent, 02/14/99)
Earlier this month, E. George Daher, chief justice of the state's Housing Court, sent 85-year-old Willa Mae Brothers to spend a couple of nights behind bars.