RANDOLPH - When Jan Carlson bought her father's former auto garage in downtown Randolph three years ago to turn it into a beauty salon, she faced some problems. View the full article here.

"Quiero tener una cabeza llena de pelo, una hermosa cabellera, brillante, reluciente, ondeante, dorada, maleable. Que me llegue hasta los hombros o más abajo. ¡Pelo, pelo, pelo por todas partes!" Así reza la canción titular del musical de los años 60, "Hair" (Melena),...

Dog groomer Bridget Edgington feels she has found a way to combine her love of dogs with her desire to help with the huge oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. She's sending all the dog hair she clips at her Port Angeles grooming business, Happy Dog House, to an...

The U.S. Coast Guard doesn't want your hair floating in the Gulf, and neither does BP. But if you care about warding off oil from South Florida's coastline, Christine Guyard needs your help. "I feel like we have to be proactive," says the Palm Beach Gardens mother of...

Frank Paganis of Pagani Hair Color & Design and Anthony Lullo of Anthony Lullo's Hair Design have come up with a new use for their leftover hair clippings: absorbing oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Through a trade publication, Paganis and Lullo, who are business...

Hair donation is hardly a new concept. Organizations such as Locks of Love and Pantene Beautiful Lengths, which provide wigs to children and women who have lost their hair because of cancer treatments, have long been popular charities for those seeking an altruistic...

MIDDLETOWN - Debby Mastrianni, owner of the Hair Affair inside Main Street Market, opens up a cardboard box packed with about 250 different types of shorn hair. Normally, this large cluster-ball of locks would just be swept up and thrown away. But for now, Mastrianni...

MIDDLETOWN -- Debby Mastrianni, owner of The Hair Affair inside Main Street Market, opens up a cardboard box packed with about 250 different types of shorn hair. Normally, this large cluster of locks would just be swept up and thrown away. But for now, Mastrianni will...

Idaho may be land locked, but Valley residents are pulling together to help the Gulf clean-up effort by using fibers from ranch animals. Tetonia alpaca breeder Tom Cleary is spearheading an effort to collect clippings that will be made into oil-soaking booms in the...

The situation in the Gulf of Mexico just got a little hairier with Los Altos Retreat Salon & Spa’s first-aid shipment of – what else? – hair, to a warehouse in Florida. Add nylon stockings, meshing and a little elbow grease, and the hair that once covered heads...