Sylvia Allen carved out a career in community revitalization for more than two decades. She founded her own company Allen Consulting. She led seminars. She engaged communities with events and worked on numerous improvement districts. Now a project in Aitkin, more than 1,000 miles from her New Jersey front door, is where she wants to make a difference. "Here is an opportunity to test everything I have ever done and do it for me and this little town," Allen said in a phone interview. "Hopefully, I can make a difference in this community," she said.

...Newbury church is far from the only historic building whose budget has been boosted in this way. The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently produced a report on similar installations across the country. Among them: -- The Zephyr...

...includes meeting with several urban landscape firms, including one that has an affiliation with the National Trust for Historic Preservation's "Main Street" program. The Colonel's International Inc.'s board of directors ratified a charter...

...of two to five days. All this in a city that won the 1998 Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, for in 1985 getting most of downtown -- once merely relics of a time when the population touched 2...

...the contract in the fall of 2002. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has named Ford Island one of the "Most...www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm National Trust for Historic Preservation: http://www.nthp.org/11Most...

...vacant, according to a recent study by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. More than three-fourths are in towns...was happy that night." On the Net: National Trust for Historic Preservation: www.nationaltrust.org/ Institute...

INDIANAPOLIS - The moment he walked into the dilapidated century-old house, a drafty two-story riddled with fallen plaster, burst water pipes and outdated wiring, Aaron Bailey was smitten.

...the type of people hurt by Wal-Mart's labor practices, opponents say. Among the critics, the National Trust for Historic Preservation last year blamed Wal-Mart when it named the state of Vermont to its list of America's 11 most endangered...

A pancake fundraiser for the Brainerd Fire Department will be from 8 a.m. noon Oct. 6 at Applebee's in Baxter. The cost is $5. Tickets can be purchased ahead of time from a firefighter or at the door.

...many others, including the Forest Highway Enhancement Program, American Recreation Coalition and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In Minnesota, partnerships with Explore Minnesota Tourism, the DNR and the University of Minnesota...