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Developer Of Blue Back Condos Offers Incentive
Three years ago, shovels were barely in the ground at Blue Back Square in West Hartford and there were already 24 deposits on the luxury condominiums at the heart of the $159 million development.
But as the market for houses and condos across the state...Tags: Property, Real Estate Agents, Condos, Metal and Mineral, West Hartford
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Deported, now divided
Chicago Tribune reportersThe phone rings on the 847 area code line used by AMS Earth Movers in Highland Park. After a few chimes, Adam Savitt picks up the call amid the lush banana fields of Guatemala. The connection is fine, but the ties to his life in Lake County are fading...Tags: Judaism, Skokie, Immigration, Gang Activity, Religious Conflicts
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Woman cited after car hits Council Bluffs home
Authorities say an 18-year-old Council Bluffs woman crashed her car into a home after apparently hitting an object in the road and losing control. Police say the accident happened Friday night. The driver, Ashley Leann Pendgraft, of Council Bluffs,...Tags: Vehicles, Metal and Mineral
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Smuggling by tunnel turns legitimate in Gaza Strip
Associated PressGaza's smugglers are going legit: Owners of the scores of tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border have registered with the Hamas authorities, pledged to pay workers' compensation and hooked up their operations to the electricity network. The once...Tags: Terrorism, Health and Safety at Work, Metal and Mineral, Organized Crime, Employees
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Please Touch museum heading to Philadelphia landmark
The Associated PressMemorial Hall, one of the jewels of the Centennial Exposition of 1876, had lost its luster many years ago. Rain poured inside through this magnificent but neglected glass dome, soaking elaborate plasterwork and pooling on its marble floors, where buckets...Tags: Ulysses S Grant, Society, American Revolutionary War, Agricultural Research and Technology, Ceremonies
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Decades later, lead still lingers at Island Trees school
eden.laikin@newsday.comThe ongoing saga in Levittown about lead contamination at the former rifle range at Island Trees High School began down the road in another district where the problem was almost identical, but the resolution dramatically different. In 1999, Lynbrook...Tags: Defense, Punishment, Health and Safety at Work, Fines, Environmental Cleanup
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Europe attempts to thwart recession
BloombergEuropean leaders agreed to guarantee new bank refinancing and use government money to prevent lenders from going under, trying to stop the worst rout in Europe's stock markets in two decades and stave off a recession. At a summit chaired by French...Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, Market and Exchange, Money and Monetary Policy, Stock Activities, ING Groep NV
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Getting concrete results
Richmond Times-DispatchThe economy may have slowed, but a plant in Dinwiddie County that turns out at least 40 pieces of 45,000-pound precast concrete a day, mostly for parking decks, is expanding. Tindall Corp. is investing $12 million in an expansion that is expected to add...Tags: University of Virginia, Marketing, Plant Openings, Federal Reserve, Prisons
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Builders Sell Energy Self-Sufficiency
Special To The CourantOnce, the formula for constructing houses was simple for Ron Gaudet and his father: Find and clear a lot, set the foundation and framing, put on a roof — and presto, they were well on their way to completing a new house. Inside, plumbing and...Tags: International Business Machines Corporation, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Colchester, Water, Farms
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Discoveries
Nature's Beloved Son
Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy
Bonnie J. Gisel with images by Stephen J. Joseph
Heyday Books: 248 pp., $45
SCOTLAND, Wisconsin, Canada, Kentucky, Florida, Alaska and the Sierra Nevada; wherever he went, John Muir,...Tags: Confucianism, Poetry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Folk Music, Society
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Mixed-use Ravenswood building opens up a new apartment avenue
Special to the Chicago TribuneRepurposing can save functional and well-constructed properties from the wrecking ball. A building at 4500 N. Winchester Ave. in Ravenswood is a case in point. Designed in 1968 as a residence for nurses working at the Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center,...Tags: Montrose, Apartments, Ravenswood, Rentals, Metra
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