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Solar Street Lighting as a Solution The Town of Concord Massachusetts, my home town, is in the process of removing street lights in an effort to reduce the lighting portion of the Town budget. Street lighting is funded by the tax payers through the general fund. The plan calls for a 43% budget reduction in…
O’Keeffe’s Working Hands offers Guaranteed Relief for Dry, Cracked and Split Hands The folks at Okeefes Company recently send me a few samples of their “working Hands” to review and evaluate. Let’s face it, a carpenter’s most important tool next to his brain is his hands. Working construction outdoors in the winter results in your…
Expedition Impossible Commercial: A Concord Carpenter. recently returned from Morocco where he and two other officers from the Waltham Police Department competed as a team (one of 13) in the filming of a new ABC reality show,Expedition Impossible.Rob’s team, The Cops, included Officer Dani Henderson and Sergeant James Vaglica For more info check, Warmly Yours website. This…
CHANNELLOCK® Father’s Day Giveaway Father’s Day in the United States is on the third Sunday of June. This year Father’s Day falls on June 21st. Fathers Day celebrates contributions that fathers and father figures make for their children’s lives. Its origins may lie in a memorial service held for a large group of men, who were killed in…
Veto Pro Pac XL Tool Bags QUESTION: What has 67 pockets and can keep over 100 tools organized, dry and easily accessible? ANSWER: It’s the Veto Pro Pac tool bag. The folks atVeto Pro Pac recently sent me their XL bag to evaluate and review. Veto Pro Pac make tool bags convenient tool storage and transport to the job…
If you follow this site regularly you will remember me writing an article called “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” and “Help Establish A Permanent African American and Abolitionist Center In Concord, MA.” I’m happy to report that the Robbins House (circa 1830), built and inhabited by the descendants of Revolutionary War veteran and former Concord slavery…
Live on a busy street? Near an airport? Or just prefer your castle to be a quiet and tranquil sanctuary? You can now choose windows for your home that reduce the transmittance of sounds into the home by more than 50 percent Impact-resistant Simonton StormBreaker Plus® windows and doors, typically installed in homes in geographic areas that…
How much do you know about home fire sprinkler systems? If you’re reading this at work, chances are pretty good there is a fire sprinkler in the ceiling over your head. That’s because automatic fire sprinkler technology has been protecting industrial, commercial and high-rise properties since the late 1800s. But did you know that same…
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