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INSIDE Plant response to the present season is to shut down growth and take a rest. We gardeners must respond accordingly in our care of houseplants, by slackening the amounts of fertilizer and water the plants receive.

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Pandemic strengthens comfort of a wellstocked home library, Page F4

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Terry and Kim Kovel | Antiques & Collecting

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Hook rug depicts continental US

O ONE IS SURE who made the first hooked rugs, but most historians think it was the Vikings. We do know that in the early 19th century, floormats were made in the United States from 9-inch-long pieces of yarn leftover from machines that made rugs.

The first rugs to interest U.S. collectors were made at Grenfell Mission, a philanthropic organization founded in 1892 to help residents of Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada.

In the 1920s and ’30s, they developed a cottage industry to make and sell handicrafts.

Items included knitted goods and hooked rugs from donated dyed silk stockings, and later flannelette, wool and burlap. The rugs had artists’ scenes of Labrador and were sold in retail shops in the U.S. and England. Grenfell rugs are now prized by collectors.

By 1940, rug making had become an art form, not just a job for the poor. Artists and amateurs made hooked rugs to use or sell. This hooked rug pictures a map of the United States. On the back it reads, “For Peter Stone on his 5th birthday Nov. 10, 1940, with Carlo’s love.” Perfect provenance. It sold at a Cowan’s auction for $469.

CURRENT PRICES Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions.

This hooked rug with a picture of the continental United States has the name of the recipient and the date on the back. It brought $469 at Cowan’s Auctions. (COWLES SYNDICATE INC.)

You probably won’t find one exactly like yours, but you may find something similar that will work.

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I adore my blue Currier & Ives dish set. Over the years, I have collected about 20 plates, bowls, serving platters, a gravy boat and everything in between. Recently, I’ve noticed pink Currier & Ives sets online and in antiques shops. Is it rare?

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Currier & Ives dinnerware was made by the Royal China Co. in Sebring, Ohio, from 1934 to 1986. The most popular of the company’s We’re trying to find more than 1,400 dinnera replacement milk glass ware patterns was the blue shade for a pole lamp. The and white Currier & Ives. It pictured a copy of a print by shade is embossed with flower blossoms in circles. Nathaniel Currier and James It chipped and we haven’t Merritt Ives, successful been able to find a replace- American printmakers from the late 1800s. Other Curriment. Can you help? er & Ives pattern colors were Go to local lighting pink, green, brown, black stores to see if they can help. and multicolor. Royal China sold the dinnerware through If they don’t have anything similar in stock, you may be retail department stores and able to order something from catalog mail order houses. one of their catalogs. You can In the 1950s, A&P stores distributed the Currier & find other places that offer replacement parts for lamps Ives pattern in pink, blue or green. The Homer Laughlin by searching the Business Directory on Kovels.com or China Co. in West Virginby searching online for reia and the English Adams placement milk glass globes. company also made Currier

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& Ives patterns, but most collectors prefer Royal.

The dishes are popular and prices seem to be climbing a little in antiques stores.

You usually see the blue and white dishes, but the pink is not rare.

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I was cleaning my mother’s closet and found a storage bin of Coach purses from the 1980s and 1990s. Most are like new and still have the Coach tag. Are vintage Coach purses worth anything?

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Coach began in 1941 as a family operated business in Manhattan named “Gail Leather Products.” Five years later, the six artisans who handcrafted men’s wallets were joined by leatherwork manufacturers Miles and Lillian Cahn. Miles loved the durability and flexibility of the leather used to make baseball gloves. Lillian suggested they use that same baseball leather to make handbags and the first Coach line was created.

The Cahns bought the Coach company in 1961. In 1985, the company was sold to Sara Lee Corp., which divested it in 2000. After a few more rebrandings, Coach celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2021.

In the late 1970s, Coach items

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Glass decanter, Kluck Kluck, blue, shaped sides, short cylindrical neck, flattened rim, clear and blue stopper, Holmegaard, 1960s, 10 1/4 x 3 3/8 inches, $85.

Clothing, dress, burnout velvet, dark brown over sheer, V-neck, long sleeves, black band with knot around bust, ruched and pleated fall detail, label, “Oscar de la Renta,” size 10, 58 inches, $125.

Doll, Mary Hoyer, Amish girl, hard plastic, sleep eyes, brunette hair, blue dress, white apron, pleated bonnet, original box with inserts, 1950s, 14 inches, $240.

Barometer, stick form, George III style, mahogany, painted scroll work, arched top, side-by-side thermometer and barometer, 38 x 6 inches, $315.

Quilt, applique, floral, 16 small flower pots each with one large and four small stylized tulips, pink and green on white ground, 82 x 76 inches, $400.

Furniture, cabinet, fruitwood, rectangular top with canted corners, three side-by-side drawers over two paneled doors, brass pulls and escutcheons, plinth base, France, 1800s, 37 5/8 x 50 1/2 x 24 inches. $625.

Jewelry, pin and earrings, trembler, layered brass flowers, domed moonstone cabochon centers, dangling filigree brass beads with moonstone ends, Joseff of Hollywood, pin 6 x 3 inches, earrings 2 1/2 inches, $935.

Toy, seesaw with rocking clowns, painted cast iron, two clowns with hinged arms and hips, rocking action makes marble roll from one clown to the other, Muller & Kadeder, Germany, 8 1/2 inches, $1,110.

Chinese Export covered vase, Rose Medallion, painted indoor scenes with figures, butterflies, fruit and floral borders, gilt accents, baluster form, gilt mask handles, domed lid with molded foo dog finial, 20 x 8 3/4 inches, pair, $1,260.

Clock, tall case, Queen Anne, japanned oak, sarcophagus top, crown and putti spandrels, waisted case, arched door, brass and silvered dial, date opening, eight-day movement, pendulum, dial signed “Jonathan March / London,” 1700s, 98 inches, $4,095.

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‘Book-wrapt’ Pandemic strengthens comfort of a well-stocked home library

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By Julie Lasky

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t the turn of the millennium, Reid Byers, a computer systems architect, set out to build a private library at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Finding few books on library architecture that were not centuries old and in a dead or mildewed language, he took the advice of a neighbor across the street, novelist Toni Morrison.

Morrison “once famously said if there is a book you want to read and it doesn’t exist, then you must write it,” recalled Byers, 74, in a video chat from his current home, in Portland, Maine.

The project stretched over a generation and culminated this year in a profusely illustrated, detail-crammed, Latin-strewn and yet remarkably unstuffy book called “The Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom” (Oak Knoll Press).

The opus arrives at an ambivalent time for book owners. As the pandemic’s social and economic disruptions have nudged people into new homes, some are questioning whether it is worth dragging along their collections. Given the inflated costs of real estate and the capacity of e-readers to hold thousands of titles, maybe that precious floor and wall space could be put to other uses?

Lisa Jacobs, founder and CEO of Imagine It Done, a home organization service in New York City, said that out of hundreds of projects in the past few years, she can recall only three requests to organize books. In one of those examples, the arranged books were treated as a backdrop — to be admired, but not read. “The clientele that has collected books through the years

are not as numerous for us,” she said.

And yet there are clear benefits in a pandemic to having a private sanctuary programmed for escapism.

“The tactile connection to books and the need for places of refuge in the home, both for work and for personal well-being, have made libraries a renewed focus in residential design,” said Andrew Cogar, president of Historical Concepts, an architecture firm with offices in Atlanta and New York.

Morgan Munsey, who sells real estate for Compass in New York, has seen well-groomed libraries in brownstones help spark bidding wars. “Even when I stage a house, I put books in them,” he said.

In “The Private Library,” Byers goes to the heart of why physical books continue to beguile us.

Individually, they are frequently useful or delightful, but it is when books are displayed en masse that they really work wonders. Covering the walls of a room, piled up to the ceiling and exuding the breath of generations, they nourish the senses, slay boredom and relieve distress.

“Entering our library should feel like easing into a hot tub, strolling into a magic store, emerging into the orchestra pit, or entering a

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Alex Assouline at his home library in New York on Dec. 10. There’s a reason that some people won’t let go of their physical books — and a new term for it: “bookwrapt.” (STEFANO UKMAR / THE NEW YORK TIMES)

“The tactile connection to books and the need for places of refuge in the home, both for work and for personal well-being, have made libraries a renewed focus in residential design.”

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chamber of curiosities, the club, the circus, our cabin on an outbound yacht, the house of an old friend,” he writes.

“It is a setting forth, and it is a coming back to center.”

Byers coined a term — “book-wrapt” — to describe the exhilarating comfort of a well-stocked library. The fusty spelling is no affectation, but an efficient packing of meaning into a tight space (which, when you think of it, also describes many libraries). To be surrounded by books is to be held rapt in an enchanted circle and to experience the rapture of being transported to other worlds.

So how many books does it take to feel book-wrapt? Byers cited a common belief that 1,000 is the minimum in any self-respecting home library.

Then he quickly divided that number in half. Five hundred books ensure that a room “will begin to feel like a library,” he said. And even that number is negotiable.

The library he kept at the end of his bunk on an aircraft carrier in Vietnam, he said, was “very highly valued, though it probably didn’t have 30 books in it.”

“What’s 5 times 40?” Alice Waters, chef and food activist, recently asked. (The question was rhetorical.) “Two hundred, 400, 600, 800,” she calculated, apparently scanning the bookcases around her and adding up their contents (she was speaking on the phone).

“And then probably another 800,” she said, referring to other rooms in her bungalow in Berkeley, California.

Yes, Waters, 77, who opened a new restaurant in Los Angeles called Lulu last month, is officially book-wrapt. She owns hundreds of cookbooks organized by cuisine, as well as volumes on farming, nutrition, education, environmental calamity, victory gardens, chef memoirs, French gastronomic terminology, art, architecture, design and fiction.

She uses a library ladder — her shelves rise that high.

“But I’m not a reader; I’m a

Alice Waters in her home library in Berkeley, Calif., on Dec. 8.

(MATTHEW MILLMAN / THE NEW YORK TIMES)

film person,” she said. “I like to be able to pull out a book and read a passage and be inspired.”

Reader or not, Waters’ sparrow-like style of dipping and hopping is, in Byers’ view, one of the great joys of library ownership. “The ability to browse among your books generates something completely new,” he said. “I like to think of it as a guaranteed cure for boredom.”

It is easy to fall into a semantic swamp figuring out exactly where a jumble of books ends and a library begins, but we have clear ideas of what a room designated as a library should look like. You can thank the English country house for that, Byers said.

Having begun 4,000 years ago, as “strange little rooms in modest Mesopotamian houses” storing cuneiform tablets, libraries reached their Western European apotheosis by the 18th and 19th centuries as grand paneled spaces with fireplaces, ornate ceilings, built-in shelves, hard and soft chairs (for serious and relaxed reading), plush carpets, game

tables, maybe a grand piano and secret doors (through which servants discreetly entered to tend fires).

“Libraries always refer to earlier libraries,” Byers said. Influencers include the 45-foot-long Italian Renaissance room with a barrel vault built in the mid-15th century

by Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and, to a lesser extent, the bookcase-lined refuge of British diarist Samuel Pepys, who died in 1703.

Asked to describe what the library of the future might look like, Byers flashed a photo of a room at Highclere Castle in England, the setting of the television series “Downton Abbey.”

Indeed, private libraries hew so closely to convention that it is often hard to say at a glance when any particular one was completed — even roughly.

“It is often a woody room, or a room that has a deeper color sometimes, if painted,” Gil Schafer III, a New York architect, said of the libraries he routinely incorporates into residential projects. (How-

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ever, when Schafer added a small library to his own retreat in Maine several years ago, he covered the walls in sheets of oak plywood rather than traditional paneling, to create an effect that was “beautiful but not fancy.”)

Even a postmodern sensation such as inventor and entrepreneur Jay S. Walker’s library, built in 2002 in Ridgefield, Connecticut — which is dedicated to the history of human imagination and laid out like an M.C. Escher labyrinth, with books stacked 26 shelves high — makes clear references to antecedents, Byers points out in his book. “The recessed and paneled wall frames might have come from Kedleston,” an English country estate in Derbyshire, designed in 1759

by Robert Adam. And “the barrel vault over the library distinctly recalls Stourhead,” an 18th-century Palladian house in the English county of Wiltshire, he noted.

Which is not to say that if you build a library, it will be used as one. Roger Seifter, a partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, in New York City, typically designs houses that contain a main-floor room with bookshelves, which he described as “a more intimate type of living room.” The space is labeled a library on the plans but might morph

into a den, study, media room or — especially now — home office.

Conversely, rooms intended for nonbookish purposes are finding new lives as libraries.

Schafer was not a maverick when he chose to put a sofa, bookcases and a television at one end of a dining room in one of his projects. “Dining rooms can be deadly rooms where there’s a table and chairs and no other use,” he said.

“Any large room looks wrong without the appropriate number of people in it,” Byers writes. “An unused living room looks empty. An empty ballroom is absolutely creepy; it looks as if it is waiting desperately for something to happen.

A library, on the other hand, is delightful when full but still especially attractive when empty.”

Masses of books, Byers said, represent “delights that we hold in possibility” — the joy of being able to lift a hand and tap unexplored worlds. (Because who among us has read every single book in our libraries?) “I like to be in a room where I’ve read half the books, and I’d like there to be enough books that I cannot possibly read them in my remaining years,” he said.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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30-year US mortgage rate rises to 3.11%

By Kathy Orton

The Washington Post

AMHERST

AGAWAM Audrey J. Nowinske to Rudika Ward-Horner, 11 Castle Hill Road, Unit 11C, $310,000.

Christian T. Ledoux to Marjorie M. Keyes and Shalisa Keyes, 11 Mansion Woods Drive, Unit 11C, $255,000.

Dino R. Mercadante and Mary E. Mercadante to Autumn Mist Farm LLC, 1157 North Westfield St., $325,000.

Jamie L. Oney and Dionys F. Cabriotti to Mary E. Mercadante and Dino R. Mercadante, 148 North St., $380,000.

Jeneane P. Bennett to Isuel Sanchez and Gabriel L. Sanchez, 32 Stewart Lane, $232,000.

Joseph L. Thomas to Michael G. Robie, 73 Regency Park Drive, $122,000.

Kubra Cayan and Zeki Kandemir to Gina R. Desrosiers and Peter R. Desrosiers, 215 Valley Brook Road, $385,000.

Lissa A. Labonte and Lissa A. Menard to Zhitao Luo, Yong Luo and Xiaozhen Deng, 50 Norman Terrace, $250,180.

Jacqueline A. David to James F. David and Astrid David, 266 Stanley St., $273,300.

Ho-Sung Kim and Yoon Ju Kang to Cameron Clelland and Jessica Anne Napier, 10 Laurel Lane, $480,000.

Katherine E. Rieser and Emily Alyssa Owens to Cynthia O’Hare Owens, 1 Winston Court, $230,000.

Lisa L. Halbert, trustee, and Lucy Wilson Benson Revocable Trust to Trustees of Amherst College and Amherst College, 46 Sunset Ave., $950,000.

Kenneth W. Samonds to Gonen Dori-Hacohen and Shiri Dori-Hacohen, 86 Dana St., $496,500.

Loren Wellesley Walker and Tracy Walker to Karyad B. Hallam, 710 Main St., $280,000.

BELCHERTOWN Mary P. Flatley to Patricia J. Lagrant, 161 Federal St., $100.

Lois A. Pare and Ronald O. Pare to 90 North Liberty Street Realty Trust, Lois A. Pare, trustee, and Ronald O. Pare, trustee, 90 North Liberty St., $100.

Malia Homebuyers LLC, to Jasmine James A. Maloney Jr., and Lynne M. Crean, Michael J. Crean and Ralph Chase to Elisha M. Bonilla and VinBaker, 71 Oak Lane, $310,000. cent M. Bonilla, 65 Old Amherst Road, $245,400.

Pine Crossing Construction Inc., to Lynn E. Barszcz, 32 Villa Drive, Unit Rosemarie D. Glaude to Julian 9, $359,900.

Lustig-Gonzalez and Kayla Ralph Capua and Rita Caputo-Capua Nicole Constantine, 137 Gold St., $424,500. to Kevin S. Lee and Hae Kyong Lee, 67 Chestnut Lane, $350,000.

Kestrel Land Trust Inc., to Belchertown Town, South Gulf Road, Rebecca J. Wing and Steven Ewing to Rebecca J. Wing, 204 Valley Brook $645,000.

Road, $100.

Zijun Guo and Kaixiang Guo to Huilang Yuan, 1138 Federal St., Richard M. Houle, Richard A. Houle, $415,000.

Lynn A. Houle, Kimberly Ann Wyckoff and Kimberly A. Wyckoff to Lissa Darrell P. Weldon and Diana L. A. Menard, 418 Meadow St., Unit F-5, Weldon to Benjamin P. White and $125,000.

Julianna White, Barton Avenue, $60,000.

Ruslan Kuzmenko and Victoria Kuzmenko to Robert Abram Oldberg, 23 John Coelho and Emily C. Coelho Walter Way, $450,000. to Noel E. Acevedo, 81 Bay Road, $257,000.

Troy C. Geoffroy to Maria S. Valliere, 144b Autumn St., $155,000.

Michael Teixeira and Amanda Tex-

ira to Elizabeth Henriette Skelly and Rachael Skelly, 590 North Washington St., $375,000.

Davison, Route 23, $149,600.

Thomas A. Bliss to Karen S. Gross, trustee, Robert M. Gross, trustee, and Benjamin D. Gross Irrevocable Trust, 74 Bay Road, $325,000.

Robert B. Martin and Susan J. Martin to Scott R. Daniels and Lynn M. Daniels, Amherst Road, $110,000.

Beverly Sardinha to Black Diamond Realty Trust, trustee of, Arthur W. Cournoyer, trustee, and Keith Fontaine. Trustee, East Hill Road, $75,000.

Henry L. Pelletier Jr., and Patricia G. Pelletier to Freeman Family Nominee Trust, trustee of, John W. Freeman and Jane M. Freeman, East Hill Road, $30,000.

Alice M. Manica and Louis D. Manica to Anthony L. Manica, 251 Fox Hill Road, $75,000.

Henry Lee Padden, Henry L. Padden and Deborah Padden to Christie Yvonne Mason Wilbur and Trevor Eric Wilbur, 1450 Dunhamtown Brimfield Road, $425,000.

Donna M. DiGeorge and Scott M. DiGeorge to Michael P. Cohrs, 525 Bald Mountain Road, $1,100,000.

Michael J. Senosk to Michael J. Senosk and Melanie L. Chunis, 96 Wales Road, $100.

Thomas W. Wyman, “aka” Thomas Wyman to BMFN LLC, Couch Brook Road, $50,000.

Nicole Escolas and Kevin L. Griffith to Jennifer E. Mormile and Ted W. Biszko Jr., 28 East Hill Road, $667,000.

BERNARDSTON

Ai S. Annis Jr., and Carol L. Annis to River Maple Farm Inc., 27 Burke Flat Road, $25,000.

BUCKLAND

Paul C. Skiathitis to Alexander F. Fiorey and Amy Fiorey, 19 South St., $350,000.

BLANDFORD Stephen Poteat and Opalgeanne Poteat to Sherard Ware and Elizabeth

Honor Mosher, individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Constance Zoe Bauerlein Mosher and Kirsten Mosher, to Doug Hercher and Honor Mosher, 8 Goodnow Road, $115,000.

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According to the latest data released Thursday by Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate average rose to 3.11% with an average 0.7 point. (A point is a fee paid to a lender equal to 1% of the loan amount. It is in addition to the interest rate.) It was 3.05% the previous week and 2.67% a year ago.

Aside from the previous week and one week in November when it dropped to 2.98%, the 30-year fixed average has hovered around 3.1% for the past eight weeks.

Freddie Mac, the federally chartered mortgage investor, aggregates rates from around 80 lenders across the country to come up with weekly national averages. The survey is based on home purchase mortgages.

It uses rates for high-quality borrowers with strong credit scores and large down payments. Because of the criteria, these rates are not available to every borrower.

The 15-year fixed-rate average ticked up to 2.33% with an average 0.7 point. It was 2.3% the previous week and 2.17% a year ago. The fiveyear adjustable rate average moved higher to 2.41% with an average 0.5 point. It was 2.37% the previous week and 2.71% a year ago.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which had hovered below 1.5% much of December, grew to its highest level in a month on Wednesday.

It closed at 1.55%. Mortgage rates tend to follow the same path as long-term bond yields, though that has been less the case recently because of the Federal Reserve’s intervention in the market.

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CHICOPEE Alice P. Forget to Robert Lee Bacon Sr., and Sheryl Elizabeth Bacon, 162 Lafayette St., $243,000.

Bruce R. Brun and Loraine G. Fortin to Luis A. Reyes, 57 Baltic Ave., $295,500.

Gary V. Klosek to Jill D. Proulx and Brian C. McNally, 21 Riverdale Road, $212,000.

Geraldine Kasulinous to Thomas S. Blackwood and Dolores C. Blackwood, 29 Pinecrest Drive, Unit 6, $329,900.

Holyoke Mortgage LLC, to Anchor Moore Investings LLC, 58 Edward St., $163,500.

Ivonne Reyes to Keisha Hernandez, 33 Factory St., $260,000.

Jacqueline Rivera and Alberto Gonzalez to William Gonzalez-Crespo, 40 Warregan St., $245,000.

James C. Sotiropoulos to Philip Nadeau and Candace Chamberlain, 33 Greenwood Terrace, $195,700.

Jodave LLC, to DI & L LLC, 32 Harvard St., $150,000.

Jonathan Warner to Angel A. Laboy, 1095 Pendleton Ave., $175,000.

Kristen M. Gauthier and Beth Gauthier to Felix Andino and Lydia I. Rodriguez, 307 Mandalay Road, $272,000.

Laurie A. Choquette and Mark G. Choquette, estate, to Grace Estates LLC, 96 Granby Road, $145,000.

Linda L. Parlee Chowns and Roger Bruce Gallant to Nana Konadu Agyemang Duah and Prince Frimpong, 70 Medford St., $236,000.

$1,200,000.

Wendy S. Markham to Amyleeann Muniz, Amy Lee Ann Muniz, Ariana Fontanez and Ariana Fontanez Vazquez, 110 Hampden St., $270,000.

William D. Tryba and Eugene F Tryba to AA&B Realty LLC, 832 Meadow St., $280,000.

COLRAIN Lori Paquette, personal representative of the Estate of Duane E. Brothers Sr., to Sarah Davenport, 121 Call Road. $140,000.

Preecha Srisupa to Yolanda Romero, 16 High St., $138,000.

DEERFIELD Douglas P. Bilodeau, trustee of the Doris A. Bilodeau Trust, to Dale & Jay Whitney LLC, 250 Greenfield Road, Routes 5 & 10, $350,000.

EAST LONGMEADOW Brital1987 LLC, to Son K. Nguyen, 15 Lasalle St., $320,000.

D R Chestnut LLC, to Joseph S. Kellner and Anne F. Kellner, 47 Fields Drive, Unit V-14, $550,900.

Fannie Mae and Federal National Mortgage Association to Nana Anowuo, 62 Tufts St., $370,000.

James D. Kostorizos to Matthew Anthony Bonzagni and Wallis R. Del Rosaio, 162 Pleasant St., $275,000.

Marc W. Occhiuti, representative, Joseph Anthony Occhiuti , estate, and Joseph A. Occhiuti, estate, to Nicholas Turnberg, 215 Allen St., $230,000.

Martin I. Broder and Marian C. Broder to Kenneth F. Bourdon and Betty Jane Bourdon, 44 Fields Drive, $544,000.

Michele T Oparowski to Maria I Rosario-Torres, 1628 Westover Road, Michael McCarthy and Grace McCarthy to Nicholas Kososki, Bella $308,000.

Vista Drive, $208,000.

Mitzie J. Sypek, estate, Mieczyslaw J. Sypek, estate, and Mitchell J. Sypek, representative, to Nicole T. Sypek and Kevin A. Martin, 17 Hafey St., $200,000.

Paul Czajka to Exchange Assets LLC, 214 Exchange St., $850,000.

Revampit LLC, to Lesley M. Kelly, 104 Johnson Road, Unit 603, $216,000.

Paul G. Duquette and Agnes V. Duquette to Pamela M. Grant, 21 Frankwyn St., $325,000.

Richard F. Edwards Jr., and Angela M. Edwards to Dina P. Lam and Huy H. Lam, 72 Canterbury Circle, $660,000.

Richard L. Grimaldi to Debra A. Garvin, 55 Meadow Road, $100,000.

Richard A. Greene to Mariann Tirell and Scott Tirell, 73 Horseshoe Drive, $140,000.

Sung Y. Chun to Robert F. Sheehan III and Elizabeth O’Neill-Sheehan, 154 Orchard Road, $525,000.

Richard B. Elmer and Tina Elmer to Joel E. Duron-Coca, 25 Western Ave., $271,000.

Zhanna Portnov and Daniel C. Hanke to Santa Sanchez, Paulino Rojas Cespedes and Joel Rojas Rosa, 38 Dorset St., $260,000.

Robert W. Yates to Yailene Otero, 449 Chicopee St., $290,000.

Shirley J. Thurston to Jodave LLC, 32 Harvard St., $140,000.

Standex International Corp., to Kor Realty LLC, 939 Chicopee St.,

EASTHAMPTON Bonita L. Magrone to Justin Bielanski, 132 Plain St., $240,000.

HOME & GARDEN Robert S. Vogel and Jane M. Vogel to Jonathan L. Bayuk, 55 South St., $500,000.

Eric S. Shepard, Amanda Lee Shepard and Amanda Lee McCarthy to Dara Darabi and Ellen Darabi, 7-9 Broderick St., $402,000.

Debra A. Swinicki and Edward J. Swinicki to Sarah D. Prall and Roxanne C. Mariana-Prall, 60-62 Maple St., $427,000.

Jamie A. Prevedel Bowen and Benjamin E. Bowen to Marina G. Margolin and David A. Ross, 76 West St., $275,000.

Cynthia L. Cloutier and Donald R. Cloutier to Jeremy D. Ober, 6 Wright St., $340,000.

Cassy A. Cohoon to Robert Scott and Iris Scott, 1 Louise Ave., $340,000.

Chelsea M. Dann and Jennifer O. Dann to Sarah A. Sullivan and Edward C. Lee, 34 Ward Ave., $315,000.

Joseph Korza, Paul Korza and Theodore Korza to Jonah S. Vorspan-Stein and Nicole Erhardt, 6 Carol Ave., $322,500.

GILL Daniel Murphy to Sara M. McMahon, 23 Oak St., $7,401.13.

HBM Properties LLC, to Chase P. Barton, Ben Hale Road, $46,000.

GRANBY Cheri A. Buckhout to Brian Miller, 4 Granby Heights, $175,750.

Dolores D. Larrivee, Karen A. Mateus and Linda M. Rodrigues to Logan Dunnigan and Bryienna Ouillette, 27 New Ludlow Road, $272,000.

Mary Beth Roy and Paula F. Cole to Michael Eskett, 39 High St., $265,000.

GRANVILLE Shaun Troy to Benjamin J. B. Reddall and Billie B Charles, 128 Crest Lane, $430,000.

GREENFIELD Melanie D. Brunette, personal representative of the Estate of Steven P. Brunette, “aka” Steven Paul Brunette, to Justin R. Ducharme, 345 Chapman St., $257,500.

Eagle Home Buyers LLC, to Kelley Ives, 51 Vernon St., $299,000.

Andrea Arnold and Monkeith E. Arnold to Gwen Gannon, 53 Washburn Ave., $350,000.

Peter Lapa Jr., to Chankroeusna Kry, 309 Conway St., $290,000.

Mark R. Lavin to William Sherr, 8 Princeton Terrace, Unit 8, Meadowview Manor Condominium,

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$95,000.

HADLEY Richard J. Kicza and Patricia M. Kicza to Kristen Moriarty, trustee, and Sharwenkris Realty Trust, 53 Stockbridge Road, $100.

Glenn W. Stowell III, personal representative, and Marilyn J. Stowell, estate, to Xiongjie Lin, 71 North Maple St., $330,000.

Michael A. Stone and Jill A. Stone to Jun Wang and Boyu Wang, 4 Phillips Place, $484,000.

Drive, $395,000.

Cathy Frye, Walter R. Lazier, Michael W. Laizer and Walter R. Laizer to Charles Rockwood, Barbara Rockwood and Aaron Rockwood, 5 Mowry Ave., $220,000.

Dennis J. Leclerc to David Roman, 60 Taylor St., $95,000.

Ethel M. Kennedy to Francisco Rivera, 366 Homestead Ave., $265,000.

Frances Martin to Katherine M. Stevens, 59 Queen St., $250,000.

Gregory J. Ambroziewicz to Mellarius Realty LLC, 36 Columbus Ave., $110,000.

John A. Finn and Helen M. Finn to Christopher J. Baker and Melissa Matthew E. Paquette and Dianne M. A. Larsen, 9 Meadowview Road, $331,500.

Paquette to Niki Dupras, 3 Mount Vision Road, $282,000.

Lisette Velez to Nathaniel James, 63 Pine St., $135,000.

HAMPDEN

HATFIELD Jeffrey J. Soley and Robyn Dudley to Suzanne Buchanan, 164A Depot Road, $667,000.

Virginia Clay Risk to William Kicza and Sandra Kicza, 115 Elm St., $365,050.

Jessica N. Norton, Jessica N. Ezold and Terrence Ezold to Virginia C. Risk, 13 Cronin Hill Road, $331,133.

HEATH Esther L. Gallup, individually and as trustee of the Gallup Investment Trust, to 11 Bellor LLC, 11 Bellor Road and Bellor Road, $450,000.

HOLLAND Douglas Curving, representative, and Joyce M. Curving, estate, to Dorian Dodge Robinson and Sharon Robinson Mrotek, 6 Hamilton Drive, $335,000.

Holland Town to Julie L. Miller, Cherokee Road, $540.

Jean M. Sullivan and Mark Koomey to Joseph B. McCaul, 28 Craig Road, $225,000.

Michael A. Giguere and Shelley Giguere to Kara N. Cook and Leo P. Gregoire, 27 Ardmore Road, $135,000.

Tolland Town to James Watras, Sandy Beach Road, $17,280.

HOLYOKE Alan J. Shaw to JAD Realty LLC, 139 Waldo St., $210,000.

Alfaville LLC, to Daniel Raymond Colegrove, 36 Maple Crest Drive, Unit G, $160,000.

Andrew P. Carriveau to Christopher Plath and Leah Plath, 20 Cranberry Drive, $325,000.

Anthony J. DiSanto and Kathryn A. DiSanto to Jamie Lynn Oney and Dionys Franklin Cabriotti, 6 Shepard

Michael J. Sullivan and Patricia C. Sullivan to Kate S. Craven and Matthew J. Craven, 5 Pheasant Drive, $375,000.

LEYDEN Pedro J. Borgos to Carol Michelfelder, 240 Eden Trail, $299,900.

LONGMEADOW Daniel M. Flynn and Patricia M. Flynn to Stephanie Carneiro Dealmeida, 33 Allen Road, $825,000.

Lisa M. Denning to Michael LaPointe, 57 Massachusetts Ave., $217,000.

Michael R. Kessler, Kathryn H. Kessler and Kathryn Heaps Kessler to Ognjenka Nadazdin-Boskovic and Svjetlan Boskovic, 89 Silver Birch Road, $560,000.

Michael W. Smith and Sarah J. Smith to Sauyin Wong, trustee, Waiman Lee, trustee, Kris-Ann Lee, trustee, and 39 Converse Street Trust, trustee of, 39 Converse St., $361,635.

Paul F. McLaughlin and Michael B. Cavanaugh to Edward Joseph Thomas, 125 South Ave., $350,000.

R. Scott Smith to Daniel M. Flynn and Patricia M. Flynn, 216 Overbrook Road, $1,137,500.

Rajendrasinh S. Mahida, Viraj Mahida, Virajsinh R. Mahida, Nayanaben N. Matieda and Narendrasinh P. Matieda to Tai Thao Huynh, 21 Lincoln Road, $361,000.

Robert L. Suttmiller and Joyce E. Suttmiller to Brandon Harris and Alexandra Harris, 267 Kenmore Drive, $320,000.

Sandra A. McFadyen and Jacqueline B. Barry to Craig A. Smith, 95 Woolworth St., $345,000.

Titus O. Roden and Heather Roden to Jerry L. Rivera, 69 Lawnwood Ave., $215,000.

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LUDLOW Ann E. Cieboter, representative, and Amy Elaine Thomas, estate, to Joao A. Dias and Julia E. Dias, 1102 East St., $175,000.

Charlene A. Fernandes and Elisio C. Fernandes to Maria S. DaCruz and Herminio Viveiros, 383 Winsor St., $290,000.

George D. Rosa and Jamie Rosa to Carole C. Dighello, 24 Adams St., $323,000.

Joao V. DaCruz to Jessie Alexander Rosales, 125 West Ave., $150,000.

MONTGOMERY Albert Prokop to Michael Dennis Chechile and Renee Alyse Chechile, 6 Sunset Lane, $460,000.

Duane T. Lord and Linda A. Lord to Stephen F. Orluk and Jo-Ann M. Orluk, 151 New State Road, $255,000.

NEW SALEM Susan G. Arnold to Kathleen J. Lawless, 30 North Main St., $222,000.

NORTHAMPTON Diane E. Liebert, trustee, and Diane E. Liebert Trust to Adam Campbell Strauss and Cynthia Kendall Hahn, 30 Lake St., $224,000.

$400,000.

PALMER

MONSON Marc A. Piotte and Tammy Piotte to GM Properties LLC, Margaret Street, $125,000.

Marissa E. Gola to Andrew Pasceri and Gabrielle Ganiere, 3 Ely Road, $231,500.

Michael J. McCarthy, Beverly A. McCarthy and Beverly A. Rivest to Joseph B. Robinson, 31 Zuell Road, $400,000.

PB Partners Development LLC, to Jason M. Seybold and Karen Lynn Seybold, 179 Fenton Road, $333,000.

MONTAGUE

Mark Stender to Alison Blair Sinkler, 29B Lyman Road and 19-31 Lyman Road, $310,000.

Amanda J. Allen and Cassandra L. Allen to Emerald City Partners LLC, 35 New South St., $100.

Commercial St., $180,000.

Edward A. Glod, estate, Michael E. Glod, representative, and Mary Lamoureaux, representative, to Steven Nieves and Glenda Nieves, 24 Sylvia St., $288,000.

Miroslaw Lizak to Benjamin Caron, 2041 Calkins Road, $265,000.

SOUTH HADLEY

David D. Theroux Sr., to Keturah Yasriyyah Mahdi, 57 Washington St., $305,900.

Brian S. Risler and Lauriebeth Risler to Jennifer M. Levreault and Kyle J. Levreault, 15 Taylor St., $260,000.

Ivan Doncev and Nelli Doncev to Jonathan M. Kopera and Rebecca L. Kopera, 753 Mount Hermon Station Road, $425,000.

Patrice Leopold Dardenne, Jean-Paul Dardenne, Catherine Christine Adona, Dominique D. Earickson, Odette V. Dardenne and Dominique Dardenne to Scott Mann, 171 East St., $321,000.

Ariel J. Garland, trustee of the Susan H. Garland Trust, and Susan H. Garland to Jared J. Erho, 52 Ashuelot Road, $170,000.

Daniel P. Bauer, Laura A. Shanahan Bauer and Laura A. Shanahan to Judith McNally Jackson, 63 Westbrook Road, $390,000.

NORTHFIELD

ORANGE

Fitzhugh L. Corr and Deborah A. Rose to Richard Drohen, Nancy Brian K. Woodbury to Ontour Spittle, Gabriel Drohen and Marjorie Properties Inc., 108 Mechanic St., Valdivia, 128 East Chestnut Hill $114,380.87.

Road, $265,000.

Katherine A. Stemm to Patricia M. Jeffrey E. Burt, trustee of the Burt Lee, 91 West River St., $210,000.

Family Trust of 2018, to Jeffrey E. Nancy Gerry and Peter A. Gerry, Burt, 46 Vladish Ave., $200,000. trustees of the Tire Barns Realty Trust, to ETT LLC, 70 West River St.,

$250,000.

Michael C. Marcotte to Nancy G. Authier, 66 Shadowbrook Estates, $417,500.

Aaron McKee and Kaitlin McKee to George B. Witman, Rita L. Witman Jenna Dziok, 8 George St., $310,000. and George B. Witman III, to Rita Brital1987 LLC, to Sheila Marin, L. Witman Revocable Trust, Rita L. 1682 North Main St., $250,000.

Witman, trustee, Rita M. Witman, trustee, and George B. Witman III, David M. Clegg and Amy T. Clegg trustee, 17 Valley View Drive, $100. to Northeast Capital LLC, 25-31

Rebecca A. Thompson, Rebecca A. Sweetman and Jarrod F. Thompson Merle Simone Alev to Layla Hijab Cable, 770 Florence Road, $450,000. to Valley Property Management LLC, 23 King St., $280,000.

Kathleen Marie Clark, Elizabeth A. Wells Fargo Bank to Exultant Kendrew and Kevin M. Kendrew to Realty Trust, trustee of, and Dominic Kevin Neill, Kevin F. Neill, Trisha W & N Summer LLC, 471 Bridge Kirchner II, trustee, 1-3 Bourne St., Neill and Trisha L. Neill to Adam J. Road, $390,000. $106,000.

Provost and Wendy M. Provost, Lyon Kathleen M. Enz to Patricia Ann Enz, Street, $1,000. trustee, Carolyn Enz Hack, trustee, MA/NH Home Buyers LLC, to and Kathleen M. Enz Revocable PELHAM Katherine Gauthier, 45 Franklin St., Trust, 74 Barrett St., $100.

Anne M. Hazzard to Jade River King $170,000.

Edgar R. Judd, personal representaand Jessica Winter King, 25 ShutesMary C. Gero to Kyle Roy, 41 Arch tive, and Marion F. Judd, estate, to bury Road, $247,000.

St., $265,000.

11 Massasoit LLC, 11 Massasoit St., $541,650.

Michael L. Banville and Denise PLAINFIELD DiFatta to Michael P. Richardson Fermoy Real Estate Management and Ashley M. Richardson, 3 Leland LLC, to Weasel Two Real Estate Eino A. Thompson to Gail Gallagher, Drive, $670,000.

Management LLC, 10 Button St., and West Street, $40,000.

14 Masonic St., $730,000.

Philip P. Ouellette, representative, and Shirley Louise Ouellette, estate, William D. Clarke and Maryann SHELBURNE to Michael R. Duffey and Carrianne SooHoo-Clarke to Jarred Brinkmann L. Duffey, 732 Fuller St., $215,000. and Veronica Martin Ruiz, 38 LongKaren R. Fish and Robert C. Fish to Westmass Area Development Corp., fellow Drive, $625,000.

Jeremy L. Johnson, 208 Smead Hill to Brownbox Properties LLC, First Road, $310,000.

Elm Street Inn LLC, and Apple & Avenue, $754,500.

Elm LLC, to Xianxiu Xie, 153 Elm St., $900,000.

John F. Singleton and Angela M. Singleton to Erin Sanchez and Eduardo Sanchez Jr., 56 Overlook Drive, $364,900.

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Nancy Neff and Susan Jubinville to Guy Bruce Berfield, 65 Woodbrook Terrace, $478,000.

Lesley M. Kelly to Nickolas E. Anderson and Winter R. Anderson, 24 West Parkview Drive, $346,700.

Molina Sr., 1417 Worcester St., $225,000.

Anthony C. Demaio and Kim M. Demaio to VMC Investments LLC, 80-82 Morris St., $170,000.

Avocado Street LLC, to Troy Laundry Building LLC, 87-167 Avocado St., $4,650,000.

Benny Crespo and Sarah A. Crespo to Jose A. Dilone and Yokaira Sanchez De Dilone, 33 Sherbrooke St., $270,000.

Bretta Construction LLC, to Fred Alexander C. Thiel to Steven A. Miller and Yalonda Bass-Miller, 10 Carra and Alexandra M. Lucey-Carra, Snowden St., $462,500.

5-7 Ingram St., $331,240.

C & L Enterprise LLC, to Catherine A Brown and Juan Jose Capellan Acosta, 1119 Worthington St., $365,000.

SOUTHAMPTON Campagnari Construction LLC, to Andrew J. Curtis to Andrew J. Curtis Naylor Nation Real Estate LLC, 54 and Meaghan M. Kwiecinski, 90 East Ionia St., $133,500.

St., $100.

Carlos Rosario and Ruth Diaz to 32 Management LLC, to Wesley Janet Addai, 32-34 Berkshire St., W. Legg and Elena Claire Legg, 32 $340,000.

Bissonette Circle, $576,500.

Christina M. Davis and Kenneth Cecelia Ann Mantia Trust and Lisa Davis to Samuel Velazquez, 53 Judkins, trustee, to New England Sunridge Drive, $258,000.

Remodeling General Contractors Cynthia C. Shaughnessy to Inc., 77 Gunn Road, $195,000.

Marie C. Molina, 99 Tavistock St., $205,000.

SOUTHWICK

Dean R. Porter to Katherine M. Langlois and Timothy R. Grimaldi, 8 Evergreen Terrace, $285,000.

Gary R. Beekmann to Spencer Beekmann and Stefanie Lauderdale, 81 South Loomis St., $420,938.

Laura I. Ronghi and Laura I. Ferrentino to Guido Ronghi, 19 Ed Holcomb Road, $305,000.

Lisa Vandervliet and Ronald Vandervliet to Paul M. Erlandson and April M. Erlandson, 12 Knollwood Road, $262,275.

Daniel Marti and Yolanda Ostolaza to Jarelis Rodriguez, 72 Curve St., $255,000.

Danielle Cuffie to Omar Abeed, 1820 Sullivan St., $149,000.

David Lussier and Sheri Lussier to Rebecca L. Rothberg, 33 Castle St., $267,700.

Dimitry Belyshev and Anastasia Belyshev to Edwin Encarnacion and Rachelle M. Encarnacion, 17 Deboo Drive, $375,000.

Enoch Biswa and Sarah Biswa to Veronica Lee Feliciano and Joel Ryan J. Albee and Courtney Albee to Pagan Cartagena, 70 Intervale Road, Mathew Goebel and Jennifer Goebel, $330,000.

6 Shaggbark Drive, $298,000.

Eva-Marie Sullivan to Tethys BraStephen Pelkey, Jill Lungarini and Jill sero Monge, 6 Stony Brook Road, Pelkey to Jarrod N. Goss and Jessica $255,000.

Duffy, 14 Fenton Drive, $365,000.

Suzanne E. Davis, estate, and Dale M. Dickson, representative, to Noelle K. Britt and Johnathan Britt, 41 Honey Pot Road, $422,000.

Thomas A. Montagna and Kristina Montagna to Benjamin V. Arcangeli and Madison L. Arcangeli, 175 College Highway, $202,500.

SPRINGFIELD 26 Federal BSD LLC, to Federal Armory LLC, 23-29 Federal St., $3,290,000.

F. Helena Donovan and Louis Wigbor 855 Liberty Springfield LLC, to to Anna C. Furr and Anna Furr, 29 Jorge Camacho, 273-275 Main St., Noel St., $244,500. $160,000.

LPM Partnership and Lisa J. Sullivan, Allen B. Choquette and Carrie C. partner, to HHSS Partnership LLC, Choquette to Dreamwake Homes 341 Newton St., $350,000.

Inc., 73 Rimmon Ave., $165,000.

Victor R. O’Brien Jr., and Jeannine C. Alycar Investments LLC, to Porfirio O’Brien to Pride LP, Carol Ann Drive,

Evandro Dessani Gomes to Leesann Amanda Weekes, 3 Elaine Circle, $395,000.

Fred Anthony Pafumi Jr., to H&F Properties Inc., 890 Boston Road, $170,000.

Hayder Alhamdani to Maria Ponce De Leon, 84 Edgewood St., $226,000.

Helynda Nieves and Pedro Juan Nieves to Victor M. Sanchez Martinez, 26-28 Lexington St., $310,000.

Jack C. Swan Jr., to Gerber Y. Moran Ramos and Julissa Altagracia Castro, 67 Littleton St., $260,000.

Jaim 4 Realty LLC, to Kathy Berdecia Doane, 64-66 Moulton St., $289,500.

Jamie Fiorentino, Kerri L. Fiorentino and Kerri L. Donohue to Kathleen Brenner, 80 Talbot Road, $225,000.

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room, bedroom and deck on the first floor.

Upstairs, there are two more bedrooms and a balcony perfect for enjoying the view. A central fireplace provides heat for both floors.

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Two large A-frames connected by a central beam form the basic structure, and the roof is made of plywood panels. The foundation

Paul R. Stevens to Rodman Capital Group LLC, 34 Rutledge Ave., $160,000.

RWM Real Estate Investment LLC, Jason M. Seybold and Karen Seybold and RWM Real Estate Investment LLC, to Nathaniel James, 889 Worthto Leonard J. Giannetti Jr., 85 Pennington St., $280,000. castle St., $274,000.

Sanshah LLC, to Suhyun Lee and Jaykiy Moriarty to Carmen D. Acevedo and Jimmy A. Reyes, 64-66 Changin Kim, 34 Mattoon St., $435,000.

Montgomery St., $300,000.

Jeremy Webb to Hugo E Jimenez, 32-34 Ferris St., $296,250.

JJS Capital Investment LLC, to Silvia Melendez, 15-17 Eaton St., $300,000.

Joseph R. Ramos to Emtay Inc., 43 Longfellow Terrace, $30,000.

Justin D. Roberts to Kelly Vo, 85 Shady Brook Lane, $210,500.

Karen R. Kelly to Victor Pereira and Luz Pereira, 2081 Allen St., $227,500.

Kathryn E. Suarez and Ivan Suarez to Barbara J. Mercado and Carmen W. Leon, 369 Walnut St., $140,000.

Santos E. Acevedo, Andrea Acevedo, Lizzette Acevedo and Lizette Torres to JoeJoe Properties LLC, 42 Merwin St., $165,000.

Selsa A. Martinez, Yenny Carolina Pelaez, Miguel Rafael and Maria A. Selsa to Juan Carlos Suero-Reynoso, 83 Somerset St., $235,000.

SRV Properties LLC, to Walter L. Martinez, 120 Winton St., $266,000.

Stephen M. Reilly to Kevin J. Reilly and Debora Reilly, 58-60 Bither St., $175,000.

Luis O. Rivera to Home Staging & Realty LLC, 48-50 Mansfield St., $120,000.

Susan Doe and Diane M. Frisino to William R. Porfilio and Diane M. Porfilio, 112 Hartford Terrace, $140,000.

Luu P. Nguyen to Elizabeth Hernandez Brito, 224-226 White St., $275,000.

Wilson Tejeda to Marilou B. Krause, 172 Quincy St., $216,000.

Mark T. Laramee to Jennifer Colon, 40-42 Ferris St., $260,000.

MS Homes LLC, and MS Home LLC, to Miguel Betacourt, 87 Oak St., $145,000.

Olga B. Rivera and Olga L. Cruz to Bretta Construction LLC, Boyer Street, $30,000.

Paul J. Robbins and Sharon L. Haley to James W. Christy III, 16 Rupert St., $288,000.

$285,000.

Morningside Terrace, $265,000.

$298,629.

Malcolm Radisic to Malcolm J. Radisic and Scott F. Radisic, 1 Pine Crest Circle, $100.

Patrick J. McCormack and Holly J. McCormack to Tomasz Kisiel and Angela Kisiel, 33 Cynthia Drive, $580,000.

Richard W. Gast to Brice W. Herrick and Melina Rudy, 40 Knollwood Road, $225,000.

Quabbin Wire & Cable Co Inc., to Crystal E. Berthiaume, 121 Glendale Circle, $265,000.

Richard C. Callahan IV, personal representative, Lynda Jean Callahan, estate, and Lynda J. Callahan, estate, to Bonnie Robert, 72 River Road, $170,000.

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

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

WENDELL

Karen Copeland to Glenn F. Webster, 96A New Salem Road, $55,000.

Steven Hoang, Tina Vy Thieu and Todd Daniel Lefebvre to Journee Bryant, 141 West Alvord St., $220,000.

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Keziah Ulanga to Worcester Services Ting Chang and Zhenhau Li to JoeLLC, 24 Dartmouth St., $300,000. banna K. Gavi, 18-20 Wigwam Place, Lisa M. Sarno to Joann Agramonte, $320,000.

84 Orange St., $256,000.

William R. Porfilio, Richard J. Porfilio,

Manuel Baez, Maria Baez and Diane Baez to Edwin O. Garcia, 24 Jardine St., $149,900.

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Yellowbrick Property LLC, to Melvin J. Collins II, 34 Seymour Ave., $224,000.

WALES Robert V. Thomas Jr., representative, and Robert V. Thomas, estate, to Michael DelNegro, 148 Stafford Road, $255,000.

WARE Steven R. Chrabascz and Carl F. Chrabascz to Jonathan Hart and Samantha Hart, 18 Highland St.,

Daniel K. Carney to Erica Cadiz, 55 Redden Road, $395,000.

Joshua Saulenas to Nidi Sharma and Renuka Magar, 187 Highland Ave., $315,000.

Rhea C. Guistina, estate, and Raymond Guistina, representative, to Sandra E. Pinkham, 62 Blossom Road, $245,000.

Richard E. Renaud and Rosemary Renaud to Marc Dulaimy, 32 Bliss St., $185,000.

Sergey A. Kripakov and Olga P. Kripakov to Andrii Tverdokhlib, 59 Day St., $345,000.

WESTFIELD Angela S. Bolduc and Jamison A. Bolduc to Riley Garstka, 7 Springdale St., $222,000.

Brian A. Bates and Barbara A. Coughlin to Jeffrey C. Keating, 63 Wilson Ave., $265,000.

Donna Mae Bourdo, estate, and Tanya Sue Bourdo, representative, representative, to Erik Summerson and Amanda Summerson, 191 Sandy Hill Road, $245,000.

Eric Harshbarger to Peter Garstka, 49 Northwest Road, $250,000.

Marjorie C. Desrosiers to Melissa M. Lemanski, 32 Park Avenue Court, Unit 32-3, $105,000.

Gilbert F. LaFreniere and Mary B. LaFreniere to Paul E. Drapeau and Heather N. Drapeau, 128 Franklin St., $160,000.

Mark E. O’Malley to Charlene A. Fernandes and Elisio C. Fernandes, 45-47 Harrison Place, $255,000.

Gregory K. Foulkes and Laura K. Foulkes to Cheuk C. Chu, 40 Saint Dennis St., $315,000.

Mary Anne Dec, Judith Marie Eckert, George Thomas Lewis, Joann Regina Webb, representative, Joanne R. Harrison, representative, George L. Lewis, estate, and Mary E. Lewis, estate, to Zahida Shahid, 20 Falvey St., $200,000.

Lynn E. Barszcz to Virginia A. Brown, 76 Glenwood Drive, $355,100.

Michael J. Crean and Jasmine M. Crean to Lauren Wiggs and Lauren D. Wiggs, 186 Harwich Road, $272,000.

Nicholas Larivee and Amanda Ottomaniello to Raj Dhimal, 35

Marilyn T. Breor to Ryan P. Wilson, 48 Beveridge Boulevard, $282,000.

Michal Kosciolek to Christopher J. Burke, 109 Ridgecrest Drive, $469,000.

Nancy J. Roche, representative, and John J. Egloff Jr., to Kyle J. Cyr, Sydney D. Cyr, Tracy L. Cyr and James J. Cyr, 45 Pequot Point Road,

Robert A. Skinner and Donna M. Skinner to James A. Gatcomb and Cynthia L. Walsh, 56 Scenic Road, $480,000.

Ronald St. Marie Jr., to Nancy Handy, 276 Buck Pond Road, $250,000.

Stephen C. Poteat, Opalgeanne Poteat and Opal G. Poteat to Aaron Poteat, 28 Maple St., $170,000.

Stephen C. Poteat, Opalgeanne Poteat and Opal G. Poteat to Aaron Poteat, 59-61 Washington St., $230,000.

WESTHAMPTON Linda Webster and Linda Webster-Davis to Andrew P. Carriveau and Stacy M. Gillett, 113 Kings Highway, $450,000.

WHATELY Andrew F. Gianino Jr., and Janice R. Gianino to Glen Skorb and Lynn Skorb, 79 State Road. $340,000.

WILBRAHAM Melinda S. Oleksiak to Madison M. Chmyzinski and Jonathan M. Levin, 106 Springfield Road, $320,000.

Silo Farm Associates LLC, to Evergreen Design Build Inc., 645V Glendale Road, $95,000.

Susan Remotti, representative, Linda Conlin, representative, Helen M. Mysliwy, estate, and Joseph F. Conlin Jr., to Deborah Gallant, 2205 Boston Road, Unit P153, $246,000.

WILLIAMSBURG Darrin E. Pensivy and Saharra A. Pensivy to David M. Nehring and Susan Fortgang, 88 Main St., $290,000.

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Lee Reich | In the Garden

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Houseplants need change during winter

JAR OF HOUSEplant fertilizer is sitting on the table in front of me. The instructions read: “Mix 1/4 teaspoon of (Brand X) per one quart of water and water plants normally. Feed every two or three weeks.” It sounds simple enough. Too bad it’s wrong.

Plants are not machines, they are living things, and, just now, they’re not hungry.

Even though shielded from the outdoor environment by insulated walls, panes of glass, artificial lighting, and heated air, houseplants are influenced by the changing of seasons.

Plant response to the present season is to shut down growth and take a rest. We gardeners must respond accordingly in our care of houseplants, by slackening the amounts of fertilizer and water the plants receive.

A little extra fertilizer won’t hurt, you say. At best, extra fertilizer is merely wasted as it leaches through the drainage hole in the bottom of a flowerpot. But a more serious problem often occurs: the extra fertilizer accumulates as salts in the soil, and burns plants’ roots. A white crust on the soil surface and browning of leaf margins are signs of this problem. If you notice the problem, water heavily a few times to

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were seen as “affordable luxury.” A tote purse was a mainstay of Coach bags for years. A brown leather business carryall tote, similar in color to the original baseball glove tanned leather, was listed in Kovels Antiques & Collectibles 2022 Price Guide for $98. A vintage glove tanned leather satchel in the style of the Cahns’ first line of handbags sold for $86.

Q. I found an old serving tray in a resale shop that caught my eye. It is handpainted with flowers and

wash the salts out of the soil.

I don’t fertilize houseplants at all this time of year, since the soil and compost in my potting mix release nutrients naturally. Soilless potting mixes such as Jiffy-Mix and Redi-Earth have no nutrients to release, since they are made only from peat and vermiculite (and some starter fertilizer, which is soon expended).

For plants growing in such “dirtless soil,” a general rule is to fertilize at half strength this time of year.

But don’t fertilize blindly.

Look at your plants; and if the old leaves are yellowing and dropping off, feed the plants a little more. In a couple of months, plants will begin to respond to lengthening days of approaching spring, and then fertilization will need to be increased accordingly.

The situation is similar for watering as for fertilization — plants need least this time of year. On the porch this summer, my weeping fig required almost daily watering as it grew rapidly, bathing in sunlight and warm, drying winds. Now this same plant is growing slowly, if at all, in its winter home in the cool, still air and reduced light of my living room. Once a week watering is adequate.

The surest way to tell wheth-

Three numbers on this container of houseplant fertilizer tell you the concentration of three major plant nutrients — nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium — but read the label to find out the rate of application. (LEE REICH PHOTO)

er a plant needs water is to poke your finger into the soil.

(And remember that cactii and succulents like their soil to become bone-dry between waterings; for others, water when the top couple of inches of soil dries.) But who wants dirty fingernails every day?

Now I just lift small pots, and their weight tells me how much water they need.

This doesn’t work so well for my weeping fig, which is six feet tall and growing in a fifteen-inch clay pot. I have heard of some gardeners who can rap on their pots with a stick or their knuckles and determine, from the sound, the

water status of the soil. There also are electronic devices with a metal probe you slide into the soil, then read the soil moisture on a dial. These water meters work well, but are somewhat influenced by fertilizers and types of potting mixes.

No matter how you figure out when to water, after a while you get a feel for the needs of each plant through the seasons, and then you need to poke and probe the soil only as a periodic check.

Hardy bulbs are the exception to the rule that plants should not be hastened in their growth this time of year. Narcissii, crocuses, and hyacinths that I potted up for indoor blossoms a couple of months ago are raring to grow. Their growth should be held back ever so slightly, with cool temperatures, so that their petals unfurl into shapely blossoms.

Aside from that, I water them commensurately with their increasingly rapid growth. So focus your attention on forcing the growth of potted bulbs, and let the rest of the houseplants plod along for now.

Any gardening questions?

Email them to me at garden@ leereich.com and I’ll try answering them directly or in this column. For online and live workshops, see leereich.com.

leaves. There is a lot of gold popular today and a tray can sell detail. It looks old. The sales- for $200 or more. There is also woman said it was toleware. toleware with a red background.

What is that?

TIP: Don’t shake dirt out of a small rug. The whipping action Toleware is painted will break small fibers and tinware, usually with a black loosen the knots. You can put it varnished background and face down on clean snow. It will remove dust and dirt. designs painted on by hand or stenciled. It is correct to call any Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel answer readers’ questions sent to painted tin-plated sheet metal the column. Send a letter with one “painted tin.” Tin was painted to protect it from rust as well as question describing the size, mato make it attractive. Toleware terial (glass, pottery) and what you know about the item. Names, made before the 19th century was often called japanned ware. addresses or email addresses will The designs were sometimes not be published. Write to Kovels, The Republican, King Features inspired by Japanese lacquer Syndicate, 628 Virginia Dr., ware. Toleware prices depend on the design and whether there Orlando, FL 32803 or email us at collectorsgallery@kovels.com. is rust or paint loss. It is very

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Garden programs Berkshire Botanical Garden presents these upcoming programs: • Wednesdays through Jan. 26, 1 to 4 p.m., “Winter Watercolor” for beginners to advanced students. $180 members, $210 nonmembers.

• Jan. 8 - Jan. 9, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, “Science of Plant Propagation.” Find out about the art and science of plant propagation from Broken Arrow Nursery’s container production & horticulture manager Adam Wheeler, who will focus on the basic botany needed to understand and successfully propagate plants. Bring a bag lunch. $180 members, $210 nonmembers.

• Jan. 8, 2 to 4 p.m., “Heritage Grape Varieties of New England and Heritage Wine tasting,” author, grape grower and winemaker, J. Stephen Casscies will talk about the many grape varieties that were developed in Massachusetts and the rest of New England. $25 members, $35 nonmembers.

To register for programs, visit berkshirebotanical. org. Berkshire Botanical Garden is located at 5 West Stockbridge Road.

Send items for Garden Notes to pmastriano@repub. com two weeks prior to publication

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• Single Story Ranch Style Home • ± ¾ Acres of Land • • Total of (5) Rooms w/ (3) Bedrooms & (2) Baths • • ± 1,144 S/F of Gross Living Area Above Grade • • Oil Heat • Full Basement • Vinyl Siding • Fireplace • • Private Well & Septic • Zoned: RA • Assessor’s # MAP 72, E3 • Sale Per Order of Mortgagee Attorney Gregory M. Schmidt

Of the firm of Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury & Murphy, P.C.

1414 Main Street, Suite 1900, Springfield Attorney for Mortgagee

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5 % Percent Buyer’s Premium Applies.

Other Terms to be Announced at Time of Sale.

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MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT PUBLIC AUCTION

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