VAIL — It’s the world’s best view from a school library. It has to be. The ribbon was cut Wednesday afternoon on the new Red Sandstone Elementary School. As Principal Marcie Laidman conducted tours ...

When Tony Wolf began cutting sandstone at age 16, he was following a lineage of stonecutters that had passed their craft along to the next generation for centuries. His family had taken their craft ...

In the winter of 1851, the Central Ohio Railroad used 1,200 kegs of black powder to blast the 700-foot-long cut in the Blackhand sandstone. It is 65 feet high and 30 feet wide. It looks and feels like ...

EAST LONGMEADOW -- When town historian Bruce Moore was growing up in the 1960s, he and his buddies spent hours exploring the sandstone quarries that fueled the community's booming economy from the ...

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