The Window & Door Manufacturers Assn. has released a list of national policy agenda items for window, door, and skylight industry.

Rockingham Community College will open the Rockingham Community College Center for Creative Woodworking. With dedicated areas to woodturning and woodworking the center will be the first of its kind in this part of the state.

Osborne Wood Products is extending an open invitation to its company-sponsored breakfasts, set for 9 a.m. on both Thursday, Feb. 28 and Friday, March 1 during the Cabinets & Closets Conference and Expo.

$50 billion in rebuilding and reconstruction for Hurricane Sandy damage, approved by the U.S. House, tops wood industry news this week. But Walmart's pledge to U.S.-made furniture and a pine beetle wood star were among most viewed items at WoodworkingNetwork.

A 330-year-old Douglas fir was among 102 trees that a Brinnon, WA, man pleaded guilty to stealing or damaging from the Olympic National Forest and was sentenced to one year in jail.

Residential housing starts were up 28.1% percent in 2012, making it one of the best years since the housing crisis began, according to figures released Jan. 17 by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Burning of woody biomass, whether in boilers, kilns or from forest fires, is more damaging to the atmosphere than originally thought.

OMNOVA Solutions (NYSE: OMN) changed the name of its Decorative Products business segment to Engineered Surfaces. Omnova, with $1.2 billion in global sales, employs 2,360.

Stiles Machinery expanded its sales and technology center in High Point, NC, bringing in Holzma operations formerly operated separately in Gastonia, NC.

Bassett Furniture has entered into a licensing agreement with Office Star Products to produce a line of ready-to-assemble furniture for the home and office. The new line will debut at the Las Vegas Furniture Market, Jan. 28-Feb. 1, at the World Market Center.