As Hurricane Dorian bears down on Central Florida, people would be wise to heed emergency-management warnings to prepare their homes, especially windows. Plywood is the cheapest way to shield windows ...

Leesa Kelly has collected more than 700 plywood boards from protests and boarded buildings from the summer of 2020. They represent preservation of the demonstrations as well as the trauma of it all.

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Vacant and abandoned properties are getting a new look in Ohio starting Tuesday. It's now illegal to board up the windows and doors with plywood. "Plywood has just been around ...

In November, Fannie Mae announced that mortgage servicers would be not only allowed but reimbursed to use clear boarding instead of plywood when securing houses that were in pre-foreclosure. That ...

If any single material gained a certain newfound ubiquity in New York City and countless other American cities and towns over the past year, it has been humble and readily available plywood. Used to ...

When the Black Lives Matter protests swept across New York City in June last year, businesses across the city shuttered their storefronts with plywood to brace for the civil unrest. The city “felt ...

Plywood could be hard to come by as retailers across the country board up storefronts in anticipation of civil unrest on Election Day or in its wake. Security experts have warned of expected chaos, no ...

During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago. Tanda Francis in her studio ...

Signs of renewal abounded this week in downtown Portland. Hundreds flocked to the Portland Farmers Market at Shemanski Park for produce while others soaked in the sun and socialized at Pioneer ...