Cordova Chronicles: These three trees

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This year we were blessed to have our daughter Heidi, her husband Scott, and grandkids Liesl, 7, and Huckleberry, 9, make it up from Austin, Texas for Christmas.

Given all the tales of travel misadventures, we were thrilled when their plane actually arrived on time on Dec.23.

To say the kids were excited would be an understatement. The first thing they did after exiting the terminal doors and giving us a hug was to run over and leap in a snowbank, head-first.

Yippee-kay-yah.

Evidently snow of any depth is not a Texas staple. In fact, earlier this winter, they had sent us photos of sledding on cookie sheets in an inch of white stuff on their front lawn.

Properly dressed in boots, snowsuits, and hats, Huck and Liesel were zipping down sled runs beside our house 10 minutes after we arrived in town.

The next day was a two-tree special. First Scott volunteered to use my 16-foot extension ladder to knock major icicles off the eaves of our house, and then proceeded to use the same ladder and a lawn rake to brush snow off our 25-foot tall beach tree. I had strung lights on it early in December when the branches were bare, and now, covered in a heavy layer of snow, many were not even visible.

This concerned Liesl, who described it as a Christmas snow cone. Perhaps because just a few weeks earlier she had been eating a flavored one to cool off in Austin’s 81-degree weather.

This activity was followed by an urgent tree hunt for a small spruce to fit in their bedroom. After all, that night would be Christmas Eve. Santa would be on his way.

It was a sparkling clear day, and just beyond Mile 13, we spotted a slender little spruce not far beyond the high snow berms along the road.

Just beyond Mile 13 on Dec. 24, 2021, Scott, Liesl, Heidi and Huck Moorhead find a perfect tree on a perfect day. Photo courtesy of Dick Shellhorn

Liesl went roaring over the bank, plodded about 10 feet, and laughed with delight when she sunk in up to her waist. The other Texans came to the rescue, and “post-holed” a path to the tree, which turned out to be perfect as the weather.

Laughter was also quite prominent when I told them of my similar efforts to find a big tree for the house. I found myself in deep snow, wrestling with a tree that had a mind of its own.

In fact, it blew off the back of my truck when I was heading over to thaw it out in the high school shop. When I pulled up, teacher Rich Sorensen lifted his welding helmet and asked, “Where’s the tree?”

Then I discovered the tree was so wide it wouldn’t fit through our house doorway, so after chopping off the bottom, we ended with the shortest tree in memory.

There was no such problem with the Texas tree, which glided though the doorway easily, dried out quickly, and was mounted and decorated in the grandkid’s bedroom in record time.

All three trees served well in their X-mas day duties, and four more days of good weather and outdoor activities followed, including XC skiing, hiking, building snow forts and a snow man, and faster and more daring sled runs as the tracks froze every night.

In fact, the sledding became so good that Huck managed to break his arm while trying a “360” on the steep hill by Webber’s house.

Ho-ho-ho.

Alas, the gang headed back to Texas on Dec. 30, but what a Christmas to remember.

With, it turns out, a few add-ons.

By New Year’s Day, at least half the needles had fallen off the inside tree. It was time to haul it to the burn pile, while Sue fired off the vacuum cleaner.

Stiff north winds were whipping up white caps on Orca Inlet, and as I rounded the curve by the ferry dock, I glanced in the rearview mirror and noticed the tree was gone.

Dick Shellhorn’s tree that flew out of the truck in the wind. Photo courtesy of Vivian Kennedy

Back-tracking toward our house, I found it laying in the middle of one of the busiest intersections in town, where the road branches off the main highway to the harbor and post office. As I pulled up, drivers were scratching their heads as they tried to navigate around this tree in the road — and laughing when they saw me turn on my flashers and toss it back in the truck.

But it gets even better.

To avoid anything embarrassing on Main Street, I decided to take the lower road on the way to the burn pile. While passing Copper River Seafoods, a strong gust shook the truck. I glanced back, and sure enough, the darn tree was gone again.

At least this time, it wasn’t in an intersection. It was laying on the road above the AML facilities. Recalling the time Dad, Nord and I were busted for chopping down a tree inside the city limits, I was relieved to know it had not been hauled down to the police station as evidence.

Finally, I made it to the burn pile. It was blowing so hard waves from a big tide were splashing over the road. I felt a pang of guilt when I threw what was left of the tree in the burn pile.

It had shown true grit. But I smiled at the thoughts of so many Xmas trees of yore, and the particular joys of the past week, in many ways centered around these three trees of 2021.

Worcester County real estate transfers, Sunday, Jan. 16

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Ashburnham

$584,900, 39 High St, Greenstone Realty LLC, to Talbot, Scott J, and Talbot, Kerri.

$501,000, 199 Tuckerman Rd, Clabaugh, Elizabeth J, and Clabaugh, William J, to Murray, William A, and Murray, Kathleen O.

$465,000, 39 Willard Rd, Botrous, Samir M, and Makkary, Taghred, to Oeung, Samoeun, and Sampeouvisak, Povis.

$263,000, 3 S High St, Sarsfield Eric R Est, and Brazeau, Becky A, to Griffin, Patrick E.

$260,000, Stowell Rd, Sanborn, Robert C, and Sanborn, Lauren M, to Allain, Kurtis, and Allain, Heather.

$229,500, 11 Penacook Dr, Sanborn, Tessa V, and Schofield, Bonnie J, to Guertin, Steven.

$174,900, 112 Center St, Wiley Viola M Est, and Douthwright, Lori, to Price, Wesley D.

Ashby

$520,000, 777 Mason Rd, Riel, Jon, and Riel, Kimberly, to Slaoui, Mounssif.

$460,000, 42 Jewett Hill Rd, Benjamin Builders Inc, to Quigley, Michael.

$270,000, 1298 Main St, Houle, Gerald P, and Houle, Pauline E, to Packard, Justin J, and Packard, Jeffrey S.

$100,000, Erickson Rd #2, Mcintyre, David L, and Mcintyre, Julie A, to Sanderson, Randall Z.

Athol

$508,000, 5 Sanders St, R&R Intl Prop Mgmt LLC, to 5 Sanders St Units LLC.

$281,500, 99 Blanchard Cir, Meehan FT, and Meehan, James W, to Ledgard, Edward F, and Ledgard, Mary P.

$250,000, 99 Beacon St, Ledgard, Edward F, and Ledgard, Mary P, to Ayala-Alequin, Moises, and Ayala-Ramos, Obed.

$215,000, 279 S Main St, Macmillan, Lisa J, to Gough, Ashley.

$73,500, 804 Conant Rd, Mccall, James B, and Deutsche Bank Natl T Co, to Deutsche Bk Natl T Co Tr.

$70,000, 104 Blanchard Cir, Meehan FT, and Meehan, James W, to Ledgard, Edward F, and Ledgard, Mary P.

$40,000, 52 Marble St, Parmenter, Connie A, to Curtis, Steven B, and Curtis, Ryan F.

Auburn

$5,301,000, Commerce Way #3, 190 Washington Auburn LLC, to Ross Real Estate LLC.

$5,301,000, Washington St (off) #3, 190 Washington Auburn LLC, to Ross Real Estate LLC.

$501,000, 220 South St, Woeller, Christopher S, and Woeller, Lora M, to Turcotte, Jacob, and Rodwill, Matthew.

$484,500, 11 Regis Dr, Sullivan, Gerald F, and Sullivan, Renee R, to Ferataj, Gazmend, and Ferataj, Teuta.

$459,900, 21 Coachman Ln, Lepard, Robert F, to Overdevest, Laura M, and Overdevest, Marl R.

$420,000, 27 Prospect St, Pilotte, Nils, and Pilotte, Allison R, to Campbell, Brian, and Gillespie, Misty.

$383,000, 171 Boyce St, Carolina, Candido, to Foreman, Jennifer, and Bergeron, Kevin.

$365,000, 3 South Ter, Mcnamara, John J, and Mcnamara, Melissa A, to Perron, Robert J.

$358,000, 6 Marilyn Dr, County, Michael P, and County, Tanya, to Michaud, Kelleen, and Michaud, Christopher A.

$350,000, 28 Sumner St, Goyette Francis H Jr Est, and Wilson, Gina M, to Ghopal, Harry.

$335,000, 19 Chestnut Ave, Lefebvre, Shawn, and Dimond, Alexandria L, to Santiago, Ethan C.

$307,500, 82 Appleton Rd, Kubly Victor Jr Est, and Hammond, Alan, to Tompkins, Nicole N, and Heckman, Donald B.

$279,999, 18 Pollier Way, Macpherson, Dawn M, to Horne, Richard B, and Horne, Mary J.

$259,900, 6 Tuck Farm Rd #5, Urban, Mary A, to Trachimowicz, Timothy R, and Trachimowicz, Gina.

$257,000, 902 Heritage Ln #902, Carlson, Leland G, to Delgado, Walter B.

Blackstone

$375,000, 68 Mendon St, Therrien, George M, and Drinkwater, Donna M, to Badeau, Alexander C, and Badeau, Jessica L.

Bolton

$232,500, 67 Berlin Rd, J&D Willimas 2015 T, and Williams, Robert S, to Butland, Timothy J.

Boylston

$950,000, 5 Rachel Rd, Mcgrath, Joseph J, and Mcgrath, Robin C, to Sherman, Edward L, and Sherman, Deborah A.

$270,000, 48 Barnard Hill Rd, Barnard Hill Estates LLC, to Iristhorpe Developers LLC.

$140,000, 9 Highland St, Collins, Raymond A, to Tecci, Salvatore.

Brimfield

$862,000, 116 Paige Hill Rd, Howlett Oliver L Est, and Barry, Richard C, to Xu, Weisheng, and Chou, Hongsong.

$667,000, 28 E Hill Rd, Escolas, Nicole, to Mormile, Jennifer E, and Biszko, Ted W.

$460,000, 80 Lyman Barnes Rd, Kifer, Mark E, and Kifer, Sandra J, to Mccabe, Daniel, and Mccabe, Barbara.

$217,000, 146 Wales Rd, Rubel, Everett C, to Patraw, Joshua A.

$140,000, 9 Crestwood Rd, Squires Richard L Jr Est, and Squires, Samantha A, to Dibaro, Paul, and Dibaro, Karen.

Brookfield

$165,000, 36 W Main St, Leger, Robert J, to Smajkiewicz, Pamela J.

Charlton

$455,000, 13 A Vinton Rd, Paul, Steven R, to Dossantos, Shaina M, and Dossantos, Leandro M.

$434,900, 35 Hycrest Rd, Hycrest Road RT, and Shamsuddin, Khaja, to Walsh, Ryan M, and Walsh, Sadie E.

$390,600, 38 Hill Rd, Prop Soln RE&Contracting, to Andino, Jose.

$345,000, 185 Stafford St, Gaskill, Rodney A, and Gaskill, Sharon Y, to Thrush, Rebecca.

$290,000, 91 Southbridge Rd, Stone, Jennifer K, to Cummings, Noah.

$115,000, Muggett Hill Rd, Peterson FT, and Peterson, Robert F, to Albano, Anthony, and Klein, Catherine E.

Clinton

$3,125,000, 1031 Main St, PJC Realty MA Inc, to 1031 Main St LLC.

$3,125,000, 1053 Main St, PJC Realty MA Inc, to 1031 Main St LLC.

$3,125,000, 1069 Main St, PJC Realty MA Inc, to 1031 Main St LLC.

$420,000, 60-62 Willow St, Walker, Anthony L, and Walker, Sandra, to Traceski, Matthew T.

$295,000, 25 Greeley St #4, Rapoza, Martha L, to Reppucci, Melissa J.

$255,000, 1 Worcester St, BMK IRT, and Farraher, Robert M, to Farragher, Brian J.

Douglas

$585,000, 274 Yew St, Quality Homes Inc, to Vargas, Andrew P, and Vargas, Victoria M.

$582,625, 11 Joseph Rd, Lobisser Building Corp, to Depasquale, Nicholas, and Depasquale, Abby.

$469,900, 37 Fairbanks Ct, Ledoux Family Hldg LLC, to Juskavitch, Jaimy.

$425,000, 154 Walnut St, Milan, Sarah D, and Milan, John F, to Peach, Michael.

$402,000, 40 Perry St, Tetreault, Veronica A, to Thompson, Rebecca A, and Thompson, Connor G.

$245,000, 9 Webster St #9, Otto-Line, Cassandra M, and Hatstat, Matthew F, to Roy, Robert J.

$225,000, 74 Wallis St, Petraglia, John C, and Petraglia, Virgina, to Obrien, Timothy, and Obrien, Kimberly.

Dudley

$415,000, 37 Henry Marsh Rd, FHLM, to Balaban, Naomi.

$375,000, 28 Roberts Rd, Jones FT, and Jones, Sandra R, to Jablonski, Jason, and Jablonski, Kristin.

$350,000, 2 Mill St, Zabka, David, and Zabka, Barbara, to Daigneault, Amber.

$324,900, 39 Schofield Ave, Nalewajk, Joan T, to Locwin, Eric, and Faille, Samantha.

$300,000, 8 Pine St, Rivera, Dora L, to Rodriguez, Jessica F.

Fitchburg

$497,500, 26-28 Wood St, Clermont Properties LLC, to Siegel, Eric.

$470,000, 84 Pratt St, UWS Trucking LLC, to Gomes, Adail.

$435,000, 220-222 Clarendon St, Greene, Leslie J, to Greene, Veronica.

$420,000, 1667 Rindge Rd, Madonia, Philip A, to Gomes, Maria D, and Santos, Elmo M.

$400,000, 290 Mount Vernon St, Dangervil, Rothschird, and Dangervil, Emmanuella, to Deshommes, Lormeglaise, and Thevenin, Etny R.

$392,500, 44-46 Salem St, Kelsey, Andrea B, to Philipov, Stephen, and Ialamov, Todor.

$350,000, 198 Summer St, Veseskis, Mark A, and Veseskis, Young O, to Koczur, Richard, and Koczur, Courtney A.

$350,000, 390 Madison St, Perez, Jose A, to Sawyer, Danielle M.

$335,000, 31 Pinard Ave, Mone-Glover, Kristy, to Kelly, Nicolette.

$335,000, 62-1/2 Hazel St, Gutierrez, Angela L, to Garcia-Perez, Sonia A.

$330,000, 346 Madison St, Figueroa, Aurellymar, to Morse, Samuel.

$315,000, 292 Williams Rd, AG Dream Flip LLC, to Leger, Celina.

$305,000, 28 Lawrence St, Antelo, Fernando, to Salicrup, Francisco, and Vargas-Rozon, Mayra N.

$300,000, 1194 Water St, Carstens, Matthew G, to Silva, Connor.

$295,000, 238 Harrison Ave, Greene, Richard, to Matthews, Lisa, and Salvatore, Jade.

$270,000, 178 Pratt St, Sawyer, Derek M, to Cheverez-Quinones, Jose R.

$252,000, 311 South St #311, N&L Real Estate LLC, to Simoes, Melleny D.

$242,000, 51 Boxwood Cir, Lapointe, Richard L, to Ford, Brandon H.

$230,000, 552 Westminster St, Belleza, Ann E, to Clearwater RE Inv Grp LLC.

$230,000, 83-85 Marshall St, Roderick, Elizabeth, and Kardonsky, Matthew, to AG Dream Flip LLC.

$220,000, 23 Hannah Ln, Noguera, Beatriz, to Sutherland, Sandra, and Sutherland, Jacob.

$219,900, 2 Brigham St, Duenas, Paul J, to Sanchez, Angelica, and Nieves, Miguel.

$209,900, 95 Phillips St, Arey, Don, to Ayala, Luis.

$206,000, 134 Eaton St, Chernosky, Gina M, to Rosse, Ashleigh R.

$203,000, 500 Williams Rd, Hurley, Maryalice, to Perdomo, Yonny.

$197,300, 107 York Ave, Lourens, Antonia M, to Harris, Maryanne.

$87,000, 845 Water St, Lunenburg Saigon Bistro, to Clearwater RE Inv Grp LLC.

$65,000, 96 Laurel St, Brideau, Sandra M, to Bertnell Realty Inc.

Gardner

$410,000, 101-105 Baker St, 101-105 Baker Avenue LLC, to Apex Acquisitions LLC.

$395,000, 30 Graham St, Marchetti Industries LLC, to Apex Acquisitions LLC.

$380,000, 75 Fieldstone Dr, Ciaramitaro, Joseph A, to Carmant, Floyd, and Carmant, Hawa.

$375,000, 145 Greenwood St, Dryden, Jeffrey, to Keaveny, Thomas.

$265,000, 14 Century Way #14, Gilman Century Way RT, and Pucillo, Kristi, to Batallas, Mariah S.

$230,000, 40 Jay St, Gale Patricia H Est, and Fini, Anne, to To, Hoang V.

$220,000, 72 Jay St, Morrissey, Amanda, to Gravel, Sean M, and Kraskouskas, Kirsty L.

$210,000, 14 Bates Rd, Botschafter, Robert P, and Botschafter, Marla M, to Osborn, Dylan J, and Hart, Kaeleigh E.

$195,000, 53 Olde Colonial Dr #2, Becotte, Katelyn M, to Royer, Kendal M, and Careau, Jonathan E.

$185,000, 278 Parker St, Thibault, Bruce A, to White, Donald A.

$147,948, 11 Jay St, Noble, Doreen, and Deutsche Bank Natl T Co, to Deutsche Bk Natl T Co Tr.

$130,000, 331 West St, Richard Robert R Est, and Shiminsky, Jennifer, to Wood, Jeffrey.

$130,000, 335 West St, Richard Robert R Est, and Shiminsky, Jennifer, to Wood, Jeffrey.

$120,000, 18 Whitney St, Muldoon, William T, and Muldoon, Anne K, to Babineau, William.

$98,000, 126 Emerald St, Bourgeois, Allen S, and Bourgeois, Joanne, to Do-Amaral, Marilene.

Grafton

$810,000, 29 Cortland Way, Bletzer, William F, and Hudachek, Jean M, to Mai, Christy H.

$698,000, 33 Elliot Trl, Markowski, Mark S, and Markowski, Brenda R, to Sullivan, Patrick J, and Sullivan, Ashley J.

$662,500, 6 Salisbury St, Shishko, Steven M, and Purdue, Jennifer A, to Ferguson, Christopher P, and Ferguson, Nicole K.

$452,000, 22 Vincent Rd, Gaudet RT, and Gaudet, Roger E, to Conti, Anya P, and Lew, Joseph J.

$357,500, 11 Pullard Rd, Snyder, Hans, and Rayner, Christina M, to Ernenwein, Ronald, and Ernenwein, Julie.

$315,000, 53 Londonderry Rd #53, Lawson, Brett, and Reese, Lyndsay, to Quarmyne, Sabrina.

$300,000, 9 Maplewood Dr, Wahlgren Robert W Est, and Sestito, Cynthia A, to Bechard, John J, and Bechard, Luann W.

$199,000, 11 Sampson St #11, Stanton, Jessica L, to Buckley, Rachel M.

$160,000, 8 Hudson Ave, Driven Realty LLC, to Sanborn, Leigh R, and Battista, Donna M.

$135,000, 31 Glen St, Moschini, Margaret E, and Anderson, Marie L, to Anderson, Marie L, and Anderson, Elizabeth.

$100,000, 29 Pullard Rd, Cameron, John, and Cameron, Donna M, to Duncan Family Holdings Co.

Hardwick

$500,000, 148 Taylor Hill Rd, Borelli, Matthew E, and Borelli, Rebecca R, to Johnson, Kenneth E, and Johnson, Ashley E.

$304,900, 2243 Barre Rd, Terkanian Bro Realty LLC, to Bishop, Lisa M.

$209,000, 480 Ridge Rd #2, Delaney, James M, and Delaney, Johanna C, to Graves, Kevin D, and Graves, Brooke E.

$30,000, Greenwich Rd, Lemoine, Edward J, to Witt, Robert J, and Witt, Debra A.

Holden

$475,000, 769 Mason Rd, Ferguson, Christopher P, and Ferguson, Nicole K, to Jarvis, Pamela L.

$455,000, 293 Sycamore Dr, Bazinet, Linda M, to Ametaj, Artan.

$432,000, 38 Heather Cir, Van Kleeck, Brenda M, and Van Kleeck, Christopher, to Cogan, Brian M, and Cogan, Jennifer C.

$405,000, 46 Raymond St, Olson, Erik, to Carolmagno, Stephanie B, and Carolmagno, Bernard.

$375,000, 41 Brookside Dr, Scalzulli, Ann A, to Kelley, Susan M.

$348,000, 39 Mount View Dr, Koch, Kasey M, and Wright, Siobhan J, to Brindisi, Derek S.

$190,000, 36 Chapel St, Rosen, Mary A, and Rosen, Gregory J, to Kakash LLC.

Hopedale

$420,000, 200 Freedom St, Johnson, John J, to Currier, John W, and Wingren, Ann M.

$350,000, 45 Inman St, Meyer, Erik R, and Meyer, Sasha, to Rogers, Matthew T, and Tumenas, Cassie L.

$300,000, 5 Home Park Ave, Krieger, Jacob D, and Krieger, Phandary, to Cornelius, Kalyn.

$59,000, 8 Prospect St, Lefever, Michelle G, and Lefever, Jason A, to Lefever, Jason A.

Hubbardston

$435,000, 109 Ragged Hill Rd, D2 Builders Inc, to Goehle, Sean, and Sullivan, Jennifer.

$385,000, 82 New Templeton Rd, Ahmed, Mohamed A, and Ali, Iman W, to Weaver, Jacob A, and Weaver, Amanda.

Hudson

$455,000, 14 Stratton Dr, Feehan, Claire F, to Freitas, Jonathan, and Freitas, Lisa.

$390,000, Chestnut St #3, Diamond Assets LLC, to Rhinell LLC.

$390,000, Stony Brook Rd #1, Diamond Assets LLC, to Rhinell LLC.

$280,000, 250 Main St #418, Fiona A Carr RET, and Carr, Fiona A, to Pappas, Christopher L, and Fontaine, Monique A.

$250,000, 125 Chapin Rd #2B, Surette, Henri C, to Mccann, Brian J.

$246,980, 7 Coolidge St, Mary A Casaceli IRT, and Casaceli, Richard F, to Ferreira, Cristiano J.

Lancaster

$895,000, 328 Mill Street Ext, Gilchrest, Charlene M, and Gilchrest, Keith A, to Burdeinick-Kerr, Rebeca, and Kerr, Ian T.

$410,000, 23 Winsor Rd, Lockney, James S, and Lockney, Priscilla M, to Lupisells, Michael, and Lupisells, Raechel.

$297,000, 226 Main St #1, Ilg, Amber L, to Morillo-Correa, Alexander, and Villarroel, Maiveli.

Leicester

$320,000, 12 Cemetery Rd, Harmon, Doris M, and Harmon, Paul R, to Rivas, Edwin E, and Rivas, Armida L.

$315,000, 17 Edward St #17, Cunningham IRT, and Rybczyk, Amy M, to Rosen, Stephen, and Rosen, Barbara.

$300,000, 208 Auburn St, Klem, Eric E, to Dickerson, Garrett.

$294,000, 14 Reservoir St, Jones, Tyrone, and Jones, Tracy L, to Rasool, Akhtar, and Bano, Sajida.

$180,629, 358 Main St, Ryder, Gerald L, to Boyda, Jean A.

Leominster

$601,000, 60 Candlewood Dr, Bhandari, Sabita, to Fernandes-DeSouza, Sidney.

$470,000, 901 Main St, Saengkheune, Khamphanh, and Saengkheune, Khammy, to Curtin, Kyle E.

$450,000, 140 Lincoln St, 140 Lincoln Street RT, and Quiles, Beverly J, to BBC Development LLC.

$445,000, 55-57 June St, Carolis, Stephen, to Sears, Stuart D, and Sears, Irina B.

$440,000, 64 Gordon St, Nowokunski, Stephen, and Nowokunski, Jayne-Marie, to Xarras, Alexander J, and Xarras, Justine.

$425,000, 414 Grant St, Basile, Joseph, and Austin, Erica, to Tucceri, Patrick, and Annunciata, Amy.

$410,000, 50 Belair Hts, Silva, Paulo F, and Silva, Thayssa A, to Shaw, Eric.

$379,000, 53 Rosewood Dr, Howard, John M, and Howard, Paula J, to Howard, Ava.

$375,000, 7 Wilson St, Leger Wilson Street LLC, to Barrera, Veronica.

$375,000, 730 Pleasant St, Johnson, Kenneth E, and Johnson, Ashley E, to Foden, Joshua D.

$370,000, 394 Johnny Appleseed Ln, Patriot Home Buyers LLC, to Moses, Samson, and Karuna, Gethse.

$350,000, 830 Lancaster St, Williams, Barry W, to Harrold, Paul J, and Gay-Harrold, Julie.

$325,000, 4 Eaton Pl, Mayes, David J, and Mayes, Rebecca, to Beland, Matthew.

$309,000, 6 Stephens Rd, Leblanc, Gail A, to Claire E Pey RET, and Pey, Claire E.

$221,500, 121 Cortland Cir #121, Currier, Jerome O, to Paananen, Kiirja.

$220,000, 56 Meadow Pond Dr #H, English, Douglas A, to Roque, Denilson.

$176,000, 10 Abbey Rd #103, Xarras, James L, to Gronlund-Marks, Kathy, and Marks, Peter.

Lunenburg

$900,000, 780 Northfield Rd, Pierce, Daniel R, and Pierce, Kathleen M, to Lattanzi, James, and Lattanzi, Allison.

$500,000, 490 Chase Rd, Pierce, Daniel R, and Pierce, Kathleen M, to Lattanzi, James, and Lattanzi, Allison.

$380,000, 44 Northfield Rd, Wentworth, Gregory C, and Wentworth, Cynthia L, to Sullivan, Timothy W, and Harrison, John.

$327,000, 410 Massachusetts Ave, Suleski, Patrick, and Otsuka, Aline, to Rodriguez, Frankie.

$25,000, 180 Chase Rd, Riordan, Michele T, and Riordan, Michael F, to Brito-DaCruz, Luciano.

Marlborough

$1,920,000, 433 Maple St, Milo RT, and Arcieri, Robert, to Mina Property Group LLC.

$1,080,000, 148 Mill St S, Gwenliz RT, and Arcieri, Robert, to Mina Property Group LLC.

$1,080,000, 525 Maple St, Gwenliz RT, and Arcieri, Robert, to Mina Property Group LLC.

$677,000, 21 Patten Dr, Coder, Thomas, to Mehrzad, Heidi M.

$650,000, 5 Madison St, Larry F Armbruster LT, and Armbruster, Larry F, to Frate Mgmt Co LLC.

$550,000, 194 Broad St, Clark, Patricia A, to Cochrane, Danielle N, and Cochrane, Jonathan W.

$490,000, 97 Violetwood Cir #97, Melendez, Susana M, to Cruz, Rodney A, and Cruz, Fabiana A.

$425,000, 37 Airport Blvd #18, Marlborough Industrial, to Maria Clara Prop LLC.

$420,000, 17 Settlers Ln #17, Williamsburg Heights, Cosolito Dorothy M Est, and Shinnick, Julie, to Ocanto-Gomez, Dorauri.

$400,000, 110 Pleasant St #404, Nezuh, Kaitlyn, and Keane, Ryan, to Deluty, Candice.

$395,000, 42 Westminster Dr #42, Young, Carolyn J, to Ranucci, Anthony J, and Ranucci, Anne M.

$362,000, 42 Bowstring Way #42, Williamsburg Heights, Ehrenberg, Gary M, and Tobert, Monya S, to Asuncion, Greg R.

$360,000, 7 Highland St, Jolie, Daniel A, and Deutsche Bank Natl T Co, to Deutsche Bk Natl T Co Tr.

$341,500, 481 Northboro Rd W #2, Thompson, Sheila, to Stewart, Geraldine.

$250,000, 130 Elm St #B, Horgos, Joseph, to Deus, Andrelino, and Texeira-Santos, Ana P.

$225,000, 77 Washington St, Miller, Gary R, and Miller, Cheryl A, to 77 Washington LLC.

Mendon

$1,155,000, 21 Milford St, Zook, Raymond G, and Zook, Jane M, to Zook, Loren, and Zook, Rosanna.

$815,367, 12 Locust Hill Dr, Miscoe Northbridge RT, and Gallagher, George, to Ayres, Timothy, and Ayres, Lisa.

$393,500, 4 Myrtle St, Hurley, Sean P, to Dileo, Kelley E, and Dileo, Gary P.

Milford

$2,910,000, 130 Quarry Dr #130, Milford Birch Street LLC, to 130 Quarry Drive LLC.

$1,000,000, 460 E Main St, Lobisser, Richard L, to Route 85 Realty Corp.

$645,000, 33 Walden Way #33, Edward E Hanlon FT, and Hanlon, Edward E, to Yates, Howard R, and Yates, Mary P.

$618,000, 77-79 Congress St, Denti-Batista, Solange, and Batista, Anthony T, to Sampaio, David, and Crnobrnja, Ilija.

$580,000, 8 Amanda Cir #8, Manfred B Schulz RT, and Kennedy, Jeannette A, to Godfrey, Matthew.

$550,000, 11 Jillson Cir, Docurral, Michael, and Docurral, Judy, to Lynch, Matthew R, and Temes, Rachael F.

$550,000, 41 Cedarview Cir #41, Mcintosh, Jacqueline, and Mcintosh, David J, to Viscido, Michael.

$550,000, 7 Clarridge Cir, Barrows, William T, and Barrows, Patricia A, to Daly, Ryan M, and Daly, Jillian M.

$525,000, 12 Robin Rd, Lawless, Bartholomew R, and Lawless, Gale, to Melo, Helder, and Melo, Elizabeth.

$395,000, 72 Pine St, Pisano, Renee, to Valladares, Patricia C.

$380,000, 56 Emmons St, Carey, Michael T, and Hurwitz, Ann, to Keating, James J, and Keating, Samantha A.

$351,000, 22 Asylum St #22, TNS Realty LLC, to Beacon Aba Services Inc.

$350,000, 96 Spruce St, Vega, Calvin, and Vega, Kimberly M, to Marshall, Chad E.

$324,000, 20 Asylum St #1, TNS Realty LLC, to Beacon Aba Services Inc.

$324,000, 20 Asylum St #2, TNS Realty LLC, to Beacon Aba Services Inc.

$275,000, 465 E Main St, Skerry, Evelyn E, to 465 E Main Street LLC.

$230,000, 5 Shadowbrook Ln #8, Shook, Amy L, and Pottle, Douglas, to Ferreira, Deborah, and Silva-Ferreira, Elves.

$90,000, Quarry Dr (off) #B, Milford Holmes Rlty LLC, to Quarry Drive Land LLC.

Millbury

$550,000, 4 Amaryllis Rd, Polo, Julie M, and Polo, Robert S, to Gabel, Colleen K, and Omahan, Christopher T.

$374,000, 4 Manor Rd, 4 Manor Road RT 2018, and Buffone, Nicholas F, to Marcum, Harris M.

$350,000, 86 Wheelock Ave, Prest, Carrie F, to Vieira, Weverton.

$290,000, Creeper Hill Rd, MGL Solar LLC, to Westborough St Millb LLC.

$182,500, 15-17 Carlstrom Ln, Vecchio, Cheryl A, and Vecchio, David J, to Vecchio LT, and Vecchio, Michael.

$111,000, Singletary Rd #5, Bek Adeline A Est, and Bek, Stephen S, to Yarnie, Daniel.

Millville

$242,000, 381 Chestnut Hill Rd, Fredap RT, and Daprato, Alfred, to Evergrain Orchard LLC.

$100,000, 12 Ronden Rd, Hurteau, Richard R, to Martins, Brett, and Cloutier, Jimmy.

North Brookfield

$1,500,000, 63 Donovan Rd, Huckins, Francis L, and Huckins, Bertina J, to North Brookfield Town Of.

$1,500,000, 65 Donovan Rd, Huckins, Francis L, and Huckins, Bertina J, to North Brookfield Town Of.

$395,000, 61 Hillsville Rd, Bristol, Lloyd G, to Blouin, Julia L, and Blouin, Richard D.

$360,000, 26 Evergreen St, Buzzbuck LLC, to Mannor, James, and Mannor, Joyce.

$299,900, 19 E Brookfield Rd, Pereira, Norma, to Wilson, Carly, and Peck, Starr.

Northborough

$1,320,000, 100 Otis St #3, CHS RT, and Spiegel, Wayne, to JCK Associates LLC.

$585,000, 157 Howard St, Kapurch, Paula, to Singh, Aseem, and Kumari, Neelam.

$186,000, 59 School St #B11, Mcelhenny, John F, to Kumar, Amit, and Shah, Ashwita.

Northbridge

$620,000, 135 Sprague St, Ganley, Bethany S, to Ragozzino, Nicholas, and Quist, Tara J.

$605,800, 130 Windstone Dr, Terreno Realty LLC, to Grotevant, Gregory H, and Grotevant, Anna R.

$550,000, 306 Jessica Way, Baker, Timothy R, to Sylvestre, Frantz.

$450,000, 42 Linwood Ave #42, Dobbs, Gary W, to Ballinger, Strawady V.

$450,000, 44 Linwood Ave #44, Dobbs, Gary W, to Ballinger, Strawady V.

$425,000, 133 Theresa Cir, Masselink, Larry A, and Masselink, Mary J, to Brown, Geoffrey W, and Brown, Kathryn E.

$380,000, 403 Linwood Ave, Healy, Susan M, and Healy, Gwendolyn M, to Daou, Samantha, and Daou, Jim-Joseph.

$377,000, 45-47 School Park, Labonte, David B, and Labonte, Kathleen M, to Couture, Cory J, and Couture, Alyssa.

$344,000, 69-71 Providence Rd, Miller, Robert, to Mazzola, Nicholas A.

$309,900, 24 Susanne Dr, Ellis Dorothy J Est, and Ellis, Glenn, to Oosterman, Charlene.

$282,500, 308 Purgatory Rd, Ingham FT 2012, and Mcgrath, Judith S, to Gareau, Peter R.

$249,900, 34 Prunier St #34, Bruyere, Christine, to Pagliarulo, Amber M, and Pagliarulo, Rory A.

$125,000, Benson Rd (off), Benson Road Dev LLC, to Sturbridge Warren LLC.

$103,301, Providence Rd, Knott James M Sr Est, and Knott, James M, to Riverdale Mills Corp.

$103,301, School St, Knott James M Sr Est, and Knott, James M, to Riverdale Mills Corp.

Oakham

$450,000, 331 Edson Rd, Truedson, David J, to Goderre, Andrew J.

$425,000, 145 Edson Rd, Mascroft Richard Est, and Mascroft, Richard F, to Damato, Roland J.

$196,354, 453 South Rd, Gutowski, Stanley L, and Wilmington Svgs Fund Soc, to Wilmington Svgs Fund Soc.

$70,000, Crocker Nye Rd #1, Kennan, Marcy M, to Bucciaglia, Joseph J.

$50,000, Edson Rd #4, Truedson, David J, to Goderre, Andrew J.

Orange

$278,000, 4 Meadow Ln, Skorb, Glenn A, and Skorb, Lynn A, to Santiago-Rivera, Francisc, and Pena, Clarison G.

$210,000, 91 W River St, Stemm, Katherine A, to Lee, Patricia M.

$120,000, 162 Memory Ln, Bellar, Pamela J, to Soroka, Dana.

$114,381, 108 Mechanic St, Woodbury, Brian K, to Ontour Properties Inc.

Oxford

$447,900, 58 Old Southbridge Rd, Skrodzki, Marcin A, and Skrodzka, Olga, to Ulrey, Kristi.

$430,000, 48 Merriam District, Cyr, Nathaniel J, and Cyr, Kayla N, to Almstrom, Brian, and Almstrom, Lori.

$332,500, 17 Vine St, Clouthier, Raymond J, and Clouthier, Gloria A, to Torres, Pablo, and Trinidad, Michelle.

$277,000, 68 Pleasant St #32, Langlois, Renee M, to Sullivan, Sean T.

$265,000, 2 Russell Ln, Clearwater Capital LLC, to Begonis, Emily A, and Dallair, Joseph R.

$134,000, 1 Thayer Pond Dr #2, Sky 2 Properties LLC, to Mancuso, Peter.

Paxton

$255,000, 346 Pleasant St, Foley William M Est, and Foley, Patricia A, to Mako, Helios, and Loce, Andi.

Petersham

$206,000, 1 Old East St, Scott Milton C Est, and Scott, Cye W, to Scott, Cye W.

Phillipston

$364,000, 8 Royalston Rd, Gilman, Elizabeth A, to Michaud, Evan, and Michaud, Sonnie.

$320,000, 100 Willis Rd, Leblanc Gilles Est, and Grasmuck, Lisa, to Leblanc, Brenden.

Princeton

$6,400,000, 178 Westminster Rd, J R Bomba Jr 2016 RET, and Bomba, John Richard, to HF Propco LLC.

$610,000, 30 Boylston Ave, Le, Daniel Q, and Le, Bichvan, to Faivus, Lisa R, and Faivus, Jason.

$225,000, Goodnow Rd, 45 Goodnow Road RT, and Holder, William C, to MA Audubon Society Inc.

Rutland

$473,600, 147 Turkey Hill Rd #8, Simac RT, and Harrity, James M, to Gomes, Danielle.

$240,000, 10 Patriot Ln, Ladner Carol E Est, and Desroches, Holly J, to Belisle, Robert S.

$200,000, 151 Ridge Rd, Kane, Alexandra, to Phelps, Jason, and Bullock, Audrey.

$132,000, 176 Maple Ave #7-33, Heighton, Michael, to Lavallee, Rachel.

Shrewsbury

$835,000, 20 Rawson Hill Dr, Propertyvelopment LLC, to Cooper, Vi H, and Cooper, Benjamin T.

$765,000, 8 Cardinal Cir, Szal, Christopher, and Szal, Pamela L, to Munir, Ahsan, and Shaik, Sana.

$698,520, 935 Main St #29, Wyman Farms LLC, to Wirtenson, Richard J, and Wirtenson, Jo-Anne.

$575,000, 935 Main St #25, Wyman Farms LLC, to Lombardo, Joseph S, and Lombardo, Catherine M.

$520,000, 280 Gulf St, Covello, James J, and Covello, Alys J, to Mahar, Alexandra N, and French, Erik.

$510,000, 159 Maple Ave, Osullivan, Kevin, and Osullivan, Jobee, to Ou, Guohe.

$500,850, 10 Payton Pl #10P, Shrewsbury Partners LLC, to Jordan, Joyce C.

$460,000, 25 Wheelock Rd, Kullak, Frank, and Kullak, Mary L, to Lau, Eddie, and Lau, Amanda.

$453,500, 3 Artemas Ave, Mak, Anthony W, and Mak, Claire Y, to Albornoz-Arias, Angel L, and Bencomo-Escobar, Solibell.

$430,000, 237 South St #9, Moody Irene M Est, and Moody, Lisa I, to Rajappan, Ranjit, and Chandran, Deepthi.

$375,000, 21 Lakeside Dr, MLD LLC, to Celik, Ugur, and Celik, Ozlem.

$300,000, 9 South St, Mwase, Andrew D, and Mwase, Irene, to Roberto-Dacosta, Poliana, and Dasilva, Joao L.

$250,000, 26-A Old Faith Rd, Pustis, Scott S, and Pustis, Sharon R, to Benoit, Joseph M.

Southborough

$715,000, 12 Stub Toe Ln, A F&A M Stucchi RET, and Stucchi, Arthur F, to Tully, Christopher J, and Tully, Madeline D.

$706,000, 30 Oak Hill Rd, Torilli, Peter F, and Torilli, Cynthia A, to Herrick, Sarah A, and Herrick, John C.

$601,000, 20 Gilmore Rd, Enhanced Prop Soln LLC, to Al Saeed, Zahraa S.

$480,000, 225 Cordaville Rd, Narula, Parvinder S, and Shourle, Smriti, to Loomer, Brady D, and Loomer, Katherine M.

$420,000, 30 Turnpike Rd #11, M&S RT, and Mariani, George M, to Jaroje, Kumait.

$420,000, 30 Turnpike Rd #12, M&S RT, and Mariani, George M, to Jaroje, Kumait.

$325,000, 15 Woodland Rd, Schoener, Anthony P, to Prestige Property Dev LLC.

Southbridge

$530,000, 16 Thomas St, Commito, Robert J, and Commito, Virginia C, to JK Everett Properties LLC.

$378,000, 430 N Woodstock Rd, Scheffler Enterprises Inc, to Ceppetelli, David J, and Ceppetelli, Carley J.

$309,000, 2 Spring St, Bonadies, Michael A, and Bonadies, Mary L, to Rivera, Heriberto V.

$299,900, 750 Charlton St, Scribner Properties LLC, to Dipilla, Jillian L.

$250,000, 678 Dennison Dr, Duval, Michelle M, to Carlson, Todd C.

$60,000, 430 N Woodstock Rd, Cormier, Gregory, to Scheffler Enterprises Inc.

Spencer

$600,000, 18 Lake Ave, Olin, Gordon, to Lynch, Jeremy J.

$568,000, 15 Lake View Dr, Davis, Douglas A, and Davis, Linda M, to Usher, J Anthony.

$435,000, 6 Howe Rd, Vitkos, Todd, to Mcgee, Carl, and Mcgee, Deborah.

$363,000, 72 Pleasant St, 82 Pleasant Street LLC, to Buckley, Joshua E, and Buckley, Jacquelynn.

$350,000, 42 Bacon Hill Rd, Kinne, Arthur M, to Keyes, William, and Keyes, Pamela.

$335,000, 20 Elm St, Wayne Street LLC, to 20 Elm Street LLC.

$327,200, 54 Cherry St, Mcgee, Deborah L, to Boudreau, Ronnie, and Towle, Jennifer.

$300,000, 121 Smithville Rd, Tompkins, Nicole N, to Rodriguez, Karla J.

$265,000, 24 Chestnut St, Tang, Huy, to RBK Properties LLC.

$250,000, 55 Mechanic St, Azov Corp, to 55 Mechanic LLC.

$59,900, 1562 Lake Whittemore Dr, Rodney L Foisy 2020 RET, and Jamack, Judith L, to Norcia, Marie.

$50,000, N Brookfield Rd #1, Hubacz, Frank, and Hubacz, Michael J, to Krusas, Kyle J.

$50,000, N Brookfield Rd #2, Hubacz, Frank, and Hubacz, Michael J, to Krusas, Kyle J.

Sterling

$399,000, 5 Colby Rd, Taber, Jay A, and Rupard, Ellen M, to Salate, Lawrence E, and Salate, Beverly A.

Sturbridge

$634,238, 566 Route 15, Silver Tree Realty LLC, to Thamer, Thomas, and Thamer, Amanda.

$369,000, 12 Stoneybrook Dr, Curran, Katherine A, and Dimilia, Michael S, to Schnitzler, Eric, and Schnitzler, Irene.

Sutton

$377,000, 10 Sovereign Hts, Elevator Properties Inc, and Anchor Inv Group LLC, to Marrino, Scott A.

$300,000, 38 Carr St, Grenier, Wayne, and Grenier, Carol, to Miller, Robert D.

Templeton

$340,000, 69 South Rd, White, Brian D, and White, Sonia M, to Sylvester-Taylor, Rebecca.

$321,250, 18 High St, Pervier, Richard H, and Pervier, Sheila M, to Pervier, Kira L.

$131,000, 152 N Main St, Dow, Virginia R, to Gadarowski, Jesse.

Townsend

$349,900, 20 W Elm St, Horizon Properties LLC, to Burak, Steven J, and Gibbons, Nicole M.

Upton

$403,000, 51 Main St, Loeper, David, and Loeper, Lorraine, to Spinney, David, and Kopacz, Julie.

Uxbridge

$650,000, 2 Ironstone Rd, Ironstone Properties LLC, to Strategic Asphalt Inc.

$650,000, 6 Ironstone Rd, Ironstone Properties LLC, to Strategic Asphalt Inc.

$575,000, 15 Holbrook Ln, Willard, Yosimir, and Willard, Christopher G, to Brosnahan, Michael J, and Brosnahan, Jennifer A.

$520,000, 586 Quaker Hwy, 586 Quaker Highway LLC, to Strategic Asphalt Inc.

$495,000, 598 Mendon St, Long, Matthew H, and Long, Theresa L, to Norquist-Weatherbee, L J, and Norquist-Weatherbee, T L.

$451,230, 212 Crownshield Ave #212, Independence Uxbridge Rlt, to Banerjee, Jayeeta, and Banerjee, Ayan.

$440,000, 145 Hazel St, Lotfy, Richard P, and Wilmington T NA, to Wilmington T NA Tr.

$408,000, 22 Hyde Park Cir #22, Coggins, Mary, to Karas, Michael W.

$380,000, 18 W Hartford Ave, Ethier, Emile L, and Ethier, Sheryl A, to Burgos, Kyle N, and Burgos, Meagan.

$355,000, 12 Carriage Path #12, Schrum, John R, to Savelli, Henry, and Savelli, Patricia J.

$289,000, 620 Quaker Hwy, Steven, Bevilacqua, to Strategic Asphalt Inc.

$250,000, 9 Loyalist Dr #9, Yard, Robarge Rita M Est, and Robarge, David P, to Bruyere, Christine.

$183,000, 40 Granite St, Menchin, Albert E, to Gogan, Matthew W.

$100,000, Pond St #1, Baca Pond Street RT, and Baca, John S, to Ferraro, Justin, and Ferraro, Kayla.

$100,000, Pond St #2, Baca Pond Street RT, and Baca, John S, to Lafrance, Joseph, and Lafrance, Tarra.

Ware

$1,550,000, 252 West St, Frank P Desantis FT, and Parker, Rosemarie, to 5 Apple Mill Lane LLC.

$233,900, 13 Clifford Ave, Millier, Kelly M, and Jones, Robert, to Stoddart, Corrina G.

$110,000, 99 Coffey Hill Rd, Kokoski, Frank W, to Bergeron, Russell N, and Bergeron, Roy F.

Warren

$460,000, Lyman Barnes Rd, Kifer, Mark E, and Kifer, Sandra J, to Mccabe, Daniel, and Mccabe, Barbara.

$282,500, 26 Old West Brookfield Rd, Casello, Nicholas A, and Casello, Jacqueline J, to New Man Ventures LLC.

$248,000, 308 Reed St, Gabanelli, David J, to Mawaka, Cameron J.

$105,000, 125 High St, Sherman, Gail A, to Rhiron Realty LLC.

Webster

$949,900, 33 Loveland Rd, Arsenault, Gail M, and Godzik, Cathleen A, to Mikitarian, George, and Mikitarian, Elizabeth.

$759,000, 20 Union Point Rd #20, Palmerino, Mark, and Palmerino, Jill, to Paicos, Kevin E, and Paicos, Ann.

$423,000, 10 Deslauriers Ave, Fournier, William, and Fournier, Paula, to Ackerman, Robert V.

$385,000, 19 George St, Gauthier LT, and Gauthier, Roger J, to Jett, Brenden J.

$250,000, 25 Nancy Dr, Mercier, Patricia A, to Torres, Leezmarie.

$250,000, 27 Greystone Ave #27, Fuentes, Yamayris, to Moroz, Kyle M.

$220,000, 150-R N Main St, EKM LLC, to Waller, Samantha A.

West Boylston

$4,000,000, 111 Shrewsbury St, 111 Holdings LLC, to Pureganics 111 LLC.

$4,000,000, 113 Shrewsbury St, 111 Holdings LLC, to Pureganics 111 LLC.

$580,000, 106 Worcester St, Sophia Rox LLC, to KC Brothers LLC.

$449,900, 4 Jasmine Dr #4, ASN Group LLC, to Seo, Kyungduk.

$355,000, 92 Hillside Village Dr #92, Johnston FT, and Johnson, Robert F, to Strniste, Nancy, and Strniste, Richard.

$265,000, 326 Sterling St #C4, Viteritti, Maura C, to Williams, Brittany M.

West Brookfield

$125,000, 10 Hillside Dr, T Jacques LT, and Jefferson, Wendy V, to Cliffledge T, and Banosian, Kara J.

$60,000, 85 Tucker Rd, Maskell, Daniel F, and Maskell, Lori, to Hilliker, Cody.

Westborough

$65,000,000, 4400 Computer Dr, 4400 LLC, to Amazoncom Services LLC.

$1,060,000, 33 Mount Pleasant St, Bloch, Michael B, and Bloch, Sondra E, to Mohiuddin, Rizwan, and Qureshi, Taj F.

$755,000, 159 Ruggles St, Harvey, Joshua J, and Harvey, Gina L, to Richard, Thomas A, and Richard, Avery M.

$575,000, 40 Robin Rd, Lightbody, Jon C, and Lightbody, Susan, to Perron, Christie M, and Annable, Robert J.

$520,000, 11101 Peters Farm Way #11101, Cotton, Lawrence B, and Cotton, Lora E, to Albert, Diane M, and Horgan, Maureen S.

$506,995, 12106 Peters Farm Way #13106, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Steiman, Banner D.

$497,955, 12107 Peters Farm Way #13107, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Calnan FT, and Calnan, Christopher E.

$494,345, 12113 Peters Farm Way #13113, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Stevenson, Alan N, and Stevenson, Mary A.

$457,460, 12101 Peters Farm Way #13101, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Kohli, Manisha, and Sethi, Harmeet.

$409,000, 42 Treetop Park #42, Wolfe, Thomas F, to Rajagopalan, Madhusudhan, and Govindaraj, Sugastha.

$401,390, 12109 Peters Farm Way #13109, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to DelRe FT, and DelRe-Jodi, Catherine.

$399,875, 12108 Peters Farm Way #12108, Primary Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Allen, Constance M.

$385,000, 2403 Talbot Way #2403, Cartus Financial Corp, to Okun, Barry.

$385,000, 2403 Talbot Way #2403, Gee, Colleen A, to Cartus Financial Corp.

$383,185, 12211 Peters Farm Way #13211, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Peters Farm Way RT, and Carmody, Christian T.

$377,670, 12103 Peters Farm Way #13103, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Luther, Marilyn.

$359,000, 19 Shepherd Rd, Rongali, Parvathi, to Miller, Marina.

$354,865, 12202 Peters Farm Way #13202, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Mazza, Donna M.

$353,270, 12112 Peters Farm Way #13112, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Lo, Meitein, and Lo, Suhuei.

$352,165, 12102 Peters Farm Way #12102, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Braun, Bari.

$350,685, 12111 Peters Farm Way #13111, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Schofield, Sharron D.

$347,055, 12110 Peters Farm Way #13110, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Gertz, Francine R.

$339,220, 12104 Peters Farm Way #13104, Pulte Hm Of New Eng LLC, to Lafleur, Mary U, and Lafleur, Annette.

$215,000, 155 Milk St #19, Kantem, Divya, and Dosala, Venu V, to Sharma, Sahil.

$162,000, 10-B Mayberry Dr #1, Antonini, Victor A, and Antonini, Daisy, to EMJ RT, and Washek, Michele M.

Westminster

$1,010,000, 57 Lanes Rd, Normandin Group LLC, to Rocheleau, Lisa A, and Littlepage, Kathryn A.

$721,000, 18 Rock Maple Ln, Wyman, Sara, and Wyman, Mark, to Caraballo-Rivera, Jose A, and Maldonado, Lizmarie B.

$629,350, 3 Narrows Rd, Greenstone Realty LLC, to Schwartz, Christian, and Duffany-Schwartz, Rachel.

$600,000, 96 Overlook Rd, Barkley Enterprises LLC, to Febbi, Logan T, and Amico, Anna.

$350,000, 106 Knower Rd, Maclachlan, Mark J, to Alexander, Scott R.

$279,899, 179 Main St, Fanelli, Emilia, to Belsky, Edmund, and Birmingham, Rachel.

$130,000, W Princeton Rd, P&M M Nakrosis FT 2014, and Nakrosis, Paul, to Mason, Bill.

Winchendon

$409,500, 190 Lakeshore Dr, Brown, Michael J, and Brown, Nicole, to Millard, Kelly, and Lapointe, Richard.

$405,000, 254 Front St, Schneider, Karl D, and Schneider, Cindy, to StCyr, Nathan, and Sullivan, Isabelle.

$350,000, 231 West St, Ferreira, Nicole A, and Claret, Cala A, to Allen, Kyle R.

$319,000, 256 Main St, Sakorn, Teerayut, to Gonzalez, Joshua.

$279,900, 316 School St, Tenney, Randy N, and Tenney, Tracey L, to Pelkey, Alan H.

$206,000, 42 Juniper St, Pelkey, Allan H, and Pelkey, Gretchen, to Lor, Cinny.

$58,000, 1 Maynard St, Kjornes, Donald M, to Peterson, Erik, and Peterson, Michelle.

Worcester

$52,000,000, 125 Goddard Memorial Dr, Goddard Mem Dr Owner LLC, to TFG Goddard Mem Dr Prop.

$3,400,000, 218 Shrewsbury St, CIG 218 Shrewsbury LLC, to 218 Shrewsbury Street LLC.

$3,400,000, 5 Oleum Ct, CIG 218 Shrewsbury LLC, to 218 Shrewsbury Street LLC.

$2,495,000, 11 Queen St, Chandler Street RT, and Magerowski, Halina E, to 146-152 Chandler St LLC.

$2,495,000, 146 Chandler St, Chandler Street RT, and Magerowski, Halina E, to 146-152 Chandler St LLC.

$2,495,000, 150-152 Chandler St, Chandler Street RT, and Magerowski, Halina E, to 146-152 Chandler St LLC.

$2,000,000, Green Island Blvd #A, Madison Wg Holdings LLC, to Madison Res Holdings LLC.

$810,000, 143 Highland St, Aoude Realty LLC, to Helfands Real Estate LLC.

$779,900, 231 Cambridge St, A R&P Cataldo RET, and Cataldo, Anthony R, to Elbach, Mustafa.

$665,000, 52 Dustin St, Narris, Helen M, to Easson, Michael.

$640,000, 21 S Stowell St, Premier Rental Prop LLC, to Veeramachaneni, Vasu, and Jangid, Gaurav.

$630,000, 94 Elm St, Southbridge RE LLC, to Shelle Realty LLC.

$600,000, 69 Greenwood St, Trac, Vinh, to Do, Quang.

$583,000, 36 Bridgeport St, Luiz, Kristen, to Sliwa, John E, and Sliwa, Christine J.

$571,500, 9 Loxwood St, TN Properties LLC, to Nyandwi, Paul, and Nyamvura, Regina.

$515,500, 6 Haviland St, Catherine A Morrissey RET, and Paladino, Ellen, to Powell, Richard F, and Powell, Joanne E.

$510,000, 55 Greencourt St, Central Mass Builders Inc, to Sanborn, Matthew, and Trzaskos, Emily.

$500,000, 141 Vernon St, Centurion Prop Invs LLC, to Kansal, Mohit, and Agnihotri, Parul.

$500,000, 4 Mount Pleasant St, Orellana, Mario A, and Hernandez, Emilia G, to Garcia-Cruz, Felicia.

$500,000, 73 Esther St, Bialonozka Jan Est, and Urban, Jerry C, to L&E Properties LLC.

$500,000, 73-1/2 Esther St, Bialonozka Jan Est, and Urban, Jerry C, to L&E Properties LLC.

$492,000, 10 E Shelby St, East Shelby LLC, to Ayachit, Viraj, and Mandowara, Chaitali.

$490,000, 26 Frank St, Situ, Charles Z, to 26 Frank Street LLC.

$490,000, 72 Bjorklund Ave, Ho, Arkady, and Diep, Christina M, to Ahmed, Mohamed A, and Ali, Iman W.

$485,000, 170 Canterbury St, Tram, Thuy, and Tram, Vinh P, to Orange Bliss Prop LLC.

$470,000, 79 Pullman St, Trinity RT, and Brohm, Margaret A, to Lacy Topaz LLC.

$452,000, 19 Woodford St, Shea, Daniel, to Cummings-Gunther, Robert.

$449,150, 16 Paper Birch Path #33, Goldthwaite Const LLC, to Jackson, Herman L, and Garcia, Odemaris.

$430,000, 211 Vernon St, Ruggieri, Michael G, and Ruggieri, Janice M, to Benitich, Gregory, and Bowen-Benitich, Brigitte.

$430,000, 31 Saint Elmo Rd, Grady, Robert F, and Grady, Gina M, to StGermain, Andrew.

$427,000, 3 S Crystal St, Ermani Properties LLC, to Paall Realty LLC.

$410,000, 23 Beale St, Lanza, Stephen P, and Lanza, Jessica L, to Arevalo, Angela.

$400,000, 5-A Wigwam Hill Dr, Dhand, Suneel, to Macomber, Steven D, and Macomber, Alex H.

$392,000, 371 Mill St, Miru, David M, to Quang, Paul, and Lam-Quang, Nicole.

$372,000, 12 Warwick St, Brodeur, Richard W, and Brodeur, Leslie A, to Montero, Yusleicy L, and Teixeira, Eldair.

$370,000, 38-B Wilbur St, Barry, Melissa N, and Barry, Brian D, to Peprah, Comfort.

$359,900, 1 Knight St, Orellana, Elmer, and Orellana, Angela, to Torres-Rivera, Dinoria B, and Sanchez, Hugo G.

$350,000, 276 Coburn Ave, Salerno, Robert J, and Salerno, Dina K, to Pena, Jose M, and Pena, Alexis R.

$350,000, 45 Bay State Rd, Wilder, Susan M, and Wilder-Reposa, Holly, to Murray, Morgan F.

$350,000, 53 Hillcroft Ave, Donahue, Patricia G, to Lokesh, Abhimanyu, and Green, Aimee.

$350,000, 56 Amherst St, Buyniski, Diane E, to Garcia-Guevara, Aldo V, and Barrett-Wittman, Amanda.

$345,000, 23 Housatonic St, Hamilton, Matthew H, and Hamilton, Elizabeth, to Street, Marita.

$340,000, 27 Calumet Ave, Zavorskas, Alan B, and Zavorskas, Janice M, to Vazquez, Tommy.

$340,000, 9 Fairfield St, 9 Fairfield Street LLC, to Ledlow-Cojolo, Gruscilla, and Cojolo, Sylvester M.

$333,500, 28 Saint Elmo Rd, Cesarano, James A, and Cesarano, Heidi, to Raymond, Scott, and Hutchinson, Shelby.

$329,900, 21 Wigwam Ave, Mascia, Theresa A, to Landaverde, Jose, and De Landaverde, Gloria T.

$329,900, 23 Wigwam Ave, Mascia, Theresa A, to Landaverde, Jose, and De Landaverde, Gloria T.

$325,000, 14 Coral St, Eknaian, Harry, to Murillo, Erwin A, and Murillo, Jackeline.

$325,000, 27 Enaya Cir #27, Wolanski FT, and Griffith, Wendy L, to Gauthier, Roger, and Gauthier, Yvette.

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$310,000, 67 Whitmarsh Ave, Wharton, Mark W, to Pagan, Richard.

$307,000, 1 Graystone Cir, Jackson Holdings LLC, to Gurnick RT, and Garnick, James E.

$300,000, 160 Fremont St #106, Lopez, Lily I, and Rivera, Joshua J, to Durkee, Paul L.

$300,000, 271 Webster St, Messier, Kathleen M, to Johnson, Ashley.

$295,000, 12 Roxbury St, Hampton Properties LLC, to Cameron, Patrick C.

$290,000, Westborough St, MGL Solar LLC, to Westborough St Millb LLC.

$287,000, 19 Blithewood Ave #19, Muturo, Jason, to Mahan, Kenneth.

$278,000, 15 Viking Ter, Dos Santos, Luciney, to Bushmelov, Maxim.

$275,000, 86 Wayside Rd, Ragozzino, Nicholas, to Archambeault, Michael P, and Archambeault, Whitney S.

$270,000, 307 Wildwood Ave #307, Ndirangu, James N, to Vergara, Jason P, and Vergara, Cristina M.

$265,000, 20 Gates Rd #B, Fenton, Paul F, to Supernor, Paula M, and Supernor, Alexandria L.

$262,500, 19 Mountainshire Dr #19, Krapf, James, to Gowaski, Martha, and Fredette, Ryan.

$253,000, 160 Fremont St #208, Ryder, Michael T, to Lafountain, Burt, and Khan, Sara W.

$250,000, 9 Sunny Hill Dr, Porter, Michael T, to Moran, Maeve F.

$245,865, 12 Waban Ave, Maxwell RT, and Capurso, Michael, to Selover, Brandon J.

$245,000, 57 Epworth St, Carlomagno, Bernard A, and Carlomagno, Stephanie B, to Gilbert, Jonathan.

$241,000, 40 Westfield St, Mckenna, Debra A, and Mckenna, William, to Nguyen, Deim-Chi.

$240,000, 32 Providence St #5, Fleming, Robert M, and Fleming, Jenna L, to Roode, Brian, and Roode, Amy L.

$235,000, 24 Chicopee St, Daley Christopher Est, and Daley, Kevin L, to Grove, Angela, and Blodgett, Samuel.

$225,000, Rolfe Ave, Spirn, Jonathan, and Popham, Jane A, to Nguyen, Chau M.

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$204,000, 8 Winneconnett Rd, Frederick T Dyer T, and Dyer, Frederick T, to Dyer-Cox, Sherry T, and Cox, Mark R.

$200,000, 10 Rutledge St #3G, DLP Realty LLC, to Su, Yi, and Sun, Yue.

$200,000, 33 Piehl Ave, Henderson Marilyn M Est, and Henderson, Paul, to Konopacki, Christoph M.

$190,000, 26-A Valley View Ln, Quinlan, Mark E, and Quinlan, Sandra L, to Rivers End Rlty Group LLC.

$181,000, 28 Brantwood Rd, Tallage Linncoln LLC, to Shang, Zhengping.

$175,000, 85 Granite St #2, Manning, Catherine A, and Dargan, George, to Berisha, Edi.

$137,000, 15 Saint Johns Rd, StGermaine, Richard, and Reverse Mtg Funding LLC, to Wilmington Svgs Fund Soc.

$135,000, 1195 Grafton St #43, American Investments LLC, to CNF Deamorim.

$115,000, 860 Southbridge St #8, Lee, Yungli J, to Trigiano, Wayne J.

$105,000, 113 Sachem Ave, Markarian, Marlene, to LAJ Properties LLC.

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$82,000, 11 Pemberton St, Dang, Tuan, to Ly, Phan M.

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New Mexico woman accused of abandoning newborn in dumpster

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Fons said during the interview with detectives, Avila said she was not aware that she was pregnant until Jan. 6 when she sought medical attention for abdominal pain. She told detectives that she was experiencing stomach pain the next day and unexpectedly gave birth.

“She further explained that she panicked and did not know what to do or or who to call,” Fons said.

According to court documents, Avila told authorities she started driving around until she decided to place the baby inside a dumpster near a shopping area.

Search warrants for Avila’s car and her family’s home turned up blood evidence, clothing and a towel.

She was booked on a charge of attempted first-degree murder or in the alternative felony child abuse. Prosecutors said the charge will be determined during an upcoming preliminary hearing.

Ibukun Adepoju, a public defender who is representing Avila, said in a statement that her client is “barely 18 herself.”

“Whatever happened is already a tragedy for her family and the community,” Adepoju said. “As humans, we should practice compassion as we wait for the justice system to work.”

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Commentary & Analysis

A graphene-based toaster. A BMW covered with E Ink panels can change color at the push of a button. A “smart retainer” for tongue-based text messaging. Alexa-based smart dumbbells can adjust weights via voice command. “The Spine Collector” scams book editors for manuscript copies of forthcoming books, for seemingly no reason whatsoever. QR code-based parking meter scams. An electronic mask can detect leaks. A liquid based bubble clock. How did people clear roads before the snowplow? Walmart’s special “Pain Box” DVD edition of “Dune.” All that and more in WhatTheyThink’s Wordle-winning miscellany.

Your Friday What If the Speed of Light Were Slower?

A Toast to Graphene!

Was it a good week for graphene news? It’s always a good week for graphene news! Seen at CES, a transparent, graphene-based toaster.

In addition to tracking the level of toasting of the bread, the device is also said to offer 50% less power consumption and enable outdoor cooking with rechargeable batteries. The device is also foldable and expandable to dual cooking/warming plates and connects to mobile devices for recipe download/control.

It’s bound to make them a lot of bread.

No Peaking

If we’re going to get peak pandemic era COVID numbers, can we at least bring back cocktails to-go, please and thank you? — Adam Rawnsley (@arawnsley) January 7, 2022

Any Color You Like

BMW recently introduced its iX Flow, a car that can change color at the push of a button. Well, not all colors; just black, white, and various shades of gray. How do they do it? The car is covered in E Ink panels. Says Core77:

Because E-ink panels are flat and the car’s surfaces are anything but, they essentially went into the CAD model of the actual car, grabbed each piece of the surface, and used generative design to “unfold” the contours into flat sheets. They then used a lasercutter to shape the E-ink panels

There is a practical reason for changing the hue of your car from light to dark:

Heating of the vehicle and passenger compartment as a result of strong sunlight and high outside temperatures can be reduced by changing the exterior to a light colour. In cooler weather, a dark outer skin will help the vehicle to absorb noticeably more warmth from the sun.

“In both cases, selective colour changes can help to cut the amount of cooling and heating required from the vehicle’s air conditioning.

Changing hues would also help if that particular car was involved in a bank heist.

Feature or Threat?

You can now take Zoom calls from your Amazon television https://t.co/CUGyZEq3r9 pic.twitter.com/ApujXII0RC — The Verge (@verge) December 23, 2021

The Tintinnabulation of the Dumbbells

We’re bemused by the concept of the seemingly oxymoronic “smart dumbbell,” which feature a “motorized weight selector” and can be electronically adjusted to change the weight in five-pound increments. NordicTrack recently announced a new Alexa-based option: voice-controlled smart dumbbells. Says The Verge:

you can ask the voice assistant to set a specific weight, increase or decrease weight, or create a preset weight for specific exercises. You can create presets for 15 common dumbbell moves: biceps curls, overhead shoulder press, lateral shoulder raises, front shoulder raise, triceps extension, bent-over row, chest press, squat, deadlift, lunge, lateral lunge, wood chop, chest fly, reverse fly, and renegade row.

The Verge writer wisely asks what the point of voice-activated dumbbells is. Well:

Aside from accessibility reasons, it boils down to speed. If you’ve ever followed along with a fitness app’s strength training class, you’re often given only 10-30 seconds in between sets. Many adjustable dumbbells work using a pin mechanism to attach or detach additional plates — meaning if you rush, you can wind up with a plate falling off mid-exercise.

That would be bad.

Autocorrect

French Texting?

From smart dumbbells to a “smart retainer,” as in dental retainer. Say what? Does that mean that you can link your teeth to the Internet and maybe use voice commands to adjust the gaps between them?

Thankfully, no. It is to enable tongue-based texting. Says Buzzfeed:

Called SilentSpeller, the project is a communication system that allows people to send texts using a high-tech dental retainer to spell out words without actually voicing them, according to a demo video and academic paper reviewed by BuzzFeed News. The device works by tracking the movement of the user’s tongue. Researchers claim the system identifies letters with 97% accuracy, and 93% accuracy for entire words.

It sounds goofy, but there is actually a practical purpose behind it.

the device could eventually be used to help people with movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor, Starner told BuzzFeed News in an interview. He also sees potential consumer applications, like hands-free communication in really quiet places, like a library, or really loud places where people would have to strain their voices to be heard.

We’ll see if nine out of 10 dentists approve.

The Things to Come

Is the situation more Howard Hawks, or John Carpenter? https://t.co/88B3EdywoF — Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) January 5, 2022

Believe It or Not’s Ripley

Here’s an odd story from the world of book publishing about someone whom Boing Boing called “The Tom Ripley of Book Publishing” and whom Vulture called “The Spone Collector.” Essentially, it sounds like the most pointless crime ever committed. Here’s the short version, which essentially involves someone scamming book editors: the Spine Collector—someone who clearly has insider knowledge of the book publishing industry—would “phish” for unpublished manuscripts (posing as someone from a disguised email address, such as @randornhouse.com instead of @randomhouse.com. The SC was often successful at conning the unsuspecting editor into sending him or her early drafts of forthcoming but as yet unpublished books. The SC would then… Well, no one quite knows. First of all, it couldn’t be some kind of ransom; nicking a copy of a Word doc doesn’t mean the publisher has to get it back. And as far as anyone knows, the manuscripts were not pirated or published illegally. Says Vulture:

Perhaps someone in publishing, or a Hollywood producer, was desperate for early access to books they might buy. Was the thief simply an impatient reader? A strung-out writer in need of ideas? “In the hacker culture that Stieg Larsson depicted, they do a lot of things not for financial benefit,” Mörk pointed out this spring, “but just to show that they can do it.”

Boing Boing updates the story:

But on January 5, 2022, the FBI announced that it arrested the alleged Spine Collector, who turned out to be a London-based publishing professional named Filippo Bernardini. He is being charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

And they do raise an interesting question:

why did the FBI waste their time going after a foreigner who was collecting unpublished manuscripts for no discernible reason? As Kelsey McKinney points out in Defector, even the Grand Jury indictment acknowledged that no one knows what the hell Bernardini gained from this long con. The indictment says that he needs to return any and all property related to the offenses but … why? He didn’t make any money, and all the books he conned were published without a hitch. Does he need to send back the Word documents over email?

Maybe it was to sow chaos? Who knows! And maybe Matt Damon will play him in the movie.

We Are the 1%

The very cool thing about mail delivery and telephone calls now is that 99% of what you receive are either trash or scams but 1% remain of life-altering importance — Will ?? Menaker (@willmenaker) December 16, 2021

Shelf Life

If you’re like us—and we know we are—you have many bookshelves that are stuffed to the point that, like Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote, you couldn’t fit in one more thing. Except maybe a “wafer-thin mint” which in this case is helped thanks to this clever device that helps stuff what is claimed to be an infinite number of books into a bookshelf, although we suspect that’s a bit exaggerated.

Of course, good luck ever getting them out again.

Eternal Questions

Guy in Plato’s Cave: “Okay but what if I owned one of these shadows on the wall, with the blockchain?” — Abigail Thorn (@PhilosophyTube) December 16, 2021

Watch the Parking Meters

Oh, Heidi, what have you been up to? From The Verge:

Police in several US cities are warning residents not to pay for their parking using QR codes stuck to parking meters. That’s because these codes have been placed there by scammers, who are using them to direct people to fraudulent sites that capture their payment details.

Warnings have been issued by law enforcement in Austin and San Antonio over the holiday period (we spotted the story via The Overspill newsletter). Police say they discovered a number of stickers with illicit codes appearing on parking meters, while a report by local news site Click2Houston shows how one of the fraudulent codes directed people to a site promising “quick pay parking.” (The site now appears to be offline.)

…The advice for avoiding these scams is the same as for any phishing fraud: check the URL of the website you’ve been sent to for misspellings or less-than-professional design (not always a useful tell when it comes to local government sites).

Or other official sites (coughEZPasscough).

All Maps Amazing and Terrible, Part the Infinity

None of the countries that surrounded Poland before 1990 exist today pic.twitter.com/8Zr0BOGy5c — Amazing Maps™ (@amazingmap) October 3, 2020

You Be ILin

This is the most IL thing ever. ?? pic.twitter.com/5YLUOcgRwB — Manny’s Deli (@mannysdeli) January 6, 2022

FaceBit

Perhaps it’s just us, but when we hear the phrase “FitBit for the face” we can’t help but think of someone falling ace first down a flight of stairs and the FitBit counting the steps. We hope that’s not what this does…

Anyroad, via Gizmodo:

Engineers Debut Fitness Tracking Mask That Can Detect Leaks

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a different approach to upgrade face masks. They have designed and built a small electronic module packed with sensors that attach to the inside of a standard medical-grade N95 mask using magnets to ensure the upgrade doesn’t affect the performance of the mask in any way. The current version of the module is powered by a battery that needs to be regularly charged, but its creators are optimistic that it could eventually be upgraded to harness heat, and even the wearer’s breathing motions, to recharge itself and extend the battery life to weeks on end. The project and the hardware specs have been released as open-source info in order to encourage others to tinker and further improve its design.

To be perfectly honest, and not to trash their research, there is some part of us (probably the face) that is hopeful that by the time this gets commercialized, we won’t need to wear masks any longer, but the way things are going, that doesn’t seem likely.

Heart Beat, Pig Meat

Pig Dies Waiting For Transplant Heart Given To Human https://t.co/3zaAQszHds pic.twitter.com/JCWjvNrhDc — The Onion (@TheOnion) January 12, 2022

Five O’Glug

One of the oldest time-keeping devices is the clepsydra, or basically a clock that used a controlled flow of water to mark the time. And now, millennia later, product designer Yukio Shinoda has developed a liquid-based clock that uses bubbles for pixels. Via Core77:

Using a laser cutter and his knowledge of electronics, Shinoda cobbled together a series of components to create his Air Bubble Clock.

While his first version used water, for version 2 he switched to glycerin, as he found it made the bubbles more crisp.

Shinoda says that unlike an LED matrix display, he finds the “slowly drifting, glowing air bubbles with some fluctuation” relaxing.

High Anxiety

Speed the Plow

As winter begins in earnest, we got to wondering, how did people clear snowy roads in the days before snow plows? Core77 had the same question but, even better, found an answer: the snow roller. In use in America as far back as the 18th century, the snow roller survived until the 20th century.

Morrisville, Vermont, year unknown. (Image source)

Because these are so big and built with metal frames, they stand a better chance of surviving the ages, unlike smaller tools that are easily lost and swallowed up by the ground. This snow roller was found in the woods near Bartlett, New Hampshire in 2014.

Image source

Perhaps the Museum of Printing could get a hold of one and use it as an ersatz printing method à la its steamroller printing.

Explained

Twitter, explained in 15 seconds pic.twitter.com/4dp4qytgwf — David Hobby (@strobist) January 10, 2022

Box of Pain

Did you like the recent movie adaptation of Dune? Are you eager to get a special edition DVD of it? Do you like pain? If yes to all three of those, then good news! Walmart is selling—and we are not making this up—a “Limited Edition Pain Box” Dune DVD set.

Repeating the phrase “limited edition pain box” over and over in my head until it sounds normal pic.twitter.com/4RDBa4H1VJ — RTL3 (@RussellLatshaw) January 12, 2022

Funny, we thought Walmart was a pain box.

This Week in Printing, Publishing, and Media History

January 10

1754: English publisher, founder of The Gentleman’s Magazine Edward Cave dies (b. 1691).

1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

1927: Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

1990: Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.

January 11

1927: Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

1928: English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy dies (b. 1840).

1949: The first “networked” television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pa., goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.

1964: Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.

1755: General, economist, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury, “Ten-Dollar Founding Father” Alexander Hamilton born.

1807: American businessman and philanthropist, founder of Western Union and Cornell University Ezra Cornell born.

January 12

1908: A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.

1949: Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist Haruki Murakami born.

1976: English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright Agatha Christie dies (b. 1890).

January 13

1888: The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

1898: Émile Zola’s J’accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

1910: The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacciare sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

1941: Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet James Joyce dies (b. 1882).

2009: Irish-American actor, director, and producer Patrick McGoohan dies (b. 1928). Be seeing you.

January 14

1896: American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright John Dos Passos born.

1898: English novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll (né Charles Dodgson) dies (b. 1832).

1952: NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.

1967: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California’s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.

1973: Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.

January 15

1759: The British Museum opens.

1876: The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.

1892: James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.

1936: The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.

1941: American singer-songwriter, musician, and artist Captain Beefheart (né Don Van Vliet) born.

1962: The Derveni papyrus, Europe’s oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.

1967: The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.

2001: Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, debuts online.

January 16

27 BC: Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.

1492: The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.

1605: The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.