A building that was once a car dealership transformed into a place of help and hope. It began with a handful of volunteers.

In earlier centuries, every bride was expected to have a hope chest or dower chest. Girls living before 1900 were expected to start weaving and sewing sheets, towels, tablecloths, lace, quilts and ...

Tucked away up a couple floors and down a hallway in Painesville Square’s Victoria Place, the volunteers at the Hope Chest tend to a storehouse of free clothes and household goods that they offer to ...

The Center for Hope Hospice and Palliative Care Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Scotch Plains, has “bargains and great finds” at its Hope Chest thrift store. Located at 26 Prospect St. in ...