Tips to Prevent Sexting

By Robert Robillard

Concerned About Your Kids Sexting? “OMG. ~ You won’t believe what kids are doing these days.” The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has some excellent information for parents. The following tips tips to prevent sexting may help you navigate through this ever changing world of technology: THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES of taking, sending,…

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The Value of Working with Your Hands

By Robert Robillard

The following article was written by my blogger friend Debbie Bier, you can find her very excellent blog at ConcordMA.com Working With Your Hands Working with your hands: in many traditions, this is an time-honored and revered way to make one’s living. The inventiveness, the pride, the usefulness, beauty and economy of an experienced worker…

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Rebuilding A Mahogany Deck

By Robert Robillard

Rebuilding A Mahogany Deck: For those of you that have been following the progress on my recent rebuilding a mahogany deck project, at Henry David Thoreau’s “last house before he died.  The deck was sanded and stained this week.  Looks nice!! The clapboards, railings, trim and lattice will be painted by the homeowner. We used a…

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Building A Glazed Pottery Fountain Part 1

By Robert Robillard

Part 1 of 2 posts…. A great friend of ours bought my wife and I a beautiful blue, glazed pot for our wedding anniversary. The blue glaze matches the blue tiles surrounding our pool. My wife has wanted a water feature by the pool for awhile now and asked me to make this glazed pot…

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Building A Glazed Pottery Fountain Part 1 of 2

By Robert Robillard

Part 1 of 2 posts How to Build A Hidden Water Fountain A great friend of ours bought my wife and I a beautiful blue, glazed pot for our wedding anniversary. The blue glaze matches the blue tiles surrounding our pool. My wife has wanted a water feature by the pool for awhile now and…

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Wind Technology

By Robert Robillard

Wind Technology Coming To Boston The Department of Energy’s intends to award Massachusetts $25 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate development of the state’s Wind Technology Testing Center. This new center will test commercial-sized wind turbine blades will help reduce cost, improve technical advancements, and speed deployment of the…

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Secure Your Television

By Robert Robillard

Secure Your Television and Bookcases to the Wall Avoid Tip-Over Related Injuries And Other Furniture!Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, analyzed federal data on injuries. They estimate as many as 14,700 children are injured at home every year by falling TVs and other heavy furniture. Dr. Gary Smith, former emergency medicine doctor and…

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Fire damages Concord’s Fritz and Gigi’s, Churchill Flowers

By Robert Robillard

The below update is from Stephanie Stillman, Executive Director of the Concord Chamber of Commerce. For additional info, go to the Concord Journal’s story about the fire. As many of you may already know, another long-loved Concord business has suffered a loss due to a fire. Fritz and Gigi: The Children’s Shop, formerly Kussin’s, was…

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