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Northshore October 2025
When most people think of building houses, they imagine stacks of wood, sheets of metal, hammers, and hand-saws. Jim Shalkoski, on the other hand, uses some unlikely materials—think hundreds of pounds of gingerbread cookie dough, rolling pins, rulers, and even buzz-saws. As a self-identified “gingineer,” Shalkoski rightfully earns the title. Having spent the past nine Christmas seasons creating masterpiece gingerbread mansions, he’s become a household name in the Salisbury area.  Each year, Shalkoski crafts a gingerbread creation to be featured in the entrance of Sea Glass Restaurant & Lounge—an event space of which he
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