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A professional pumpkin carver spills his guts

By Callie Holtermann

step is to peel the pumpkin.

You remove the hard orange skin, which allows access to that beautiful flesh that’s underneath, which is great for sculpting. Next I’ll block in the face with a ribbon tool. I’m kind of playing with perspective and drawing with shadow: the deeper the cut, the darker the shadow. Gradually, I start to work with smaller tools, and I finish with knife work.

The New York Times

A group of children watched as Adam Bierton made his first few slashes into the meat of a pumpkin at the New York Botanical Garden earlier this month.

Using a tool that resembled a carrot peeler, Bierton scored a horizontal eyebrow ridge and the grooves of a frown.

Over the course of three hours, a steady crowd of about 20 people looked on as heaps of orange pulp formed at his feet.

Every so often he spritzed the pumpkin’s facade with a bottle of lemon juice to keep its flesh dewy.

Bierton, 40, is a pumpkin carver who expects to carve more than 100 pumpkins this fall.

money carving pumpkins?

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Children watch Adam Bierton carve a pumpkin at the New York Botanical Garden, where he has been doing weekend demonstrations since 2018, in New York. Bierton is allergic to pumpkins, but that does not stop him from carving dozens each fall, the most of intricate of which can cost $5,000. (PHOTOS BY AMIR HAMJA / THE NEW YORK TIMES)

sculpting with clay, plaster and metal.

He brought tools for making ceramics home from school so he could use them on pumpkins.

After honing his technique under the tutelage of other carvers, he was part of a team that won a season of “Halloween Wars,” a pumpkin-carving competition show on Food Network, in 2015.

Now Bierton, who still lives in Rochester, is one of a handful of artists who carve professionally throughout a frenzied season that begins in September and ends Nov. 1.

He has been doing weekend demonstrations each fall since 2018 at the botanical garden in the Bronx, where the edited interview below took place.

Time pressure, he said, is far from his only challenge.

“I’m actually mildly allergic to pumpkin,” he said. “It’s like, I love something, and it fights me. Maybe that’s why I’m so attracted to it.”

Q. How did you go from

an amateur to a profession-

al pumpkin carver?

A. I think there are fewer

Working live events.

My contract with New York Botanical Garden is the majority of my season. And then a lot of the other work is with brands that are looking for pumpkins for promotional use on social media — like logo pumpkins and time-lapse stuff. I’m working with Starbucks and the BBC this year.

Q. How much do corpo-

rate clients usually pay for than 20 of us that are on the pumpkins? every single year I would do same level. And then there are an eight-hour carving. The another 20 that are up-andA pumpkin can range first one I did was Beetlecoming. anywhere between $400 and juice; that was probably in $5,000. I have a dream to 2000. I did it primarily with Walk me through your replace my entire year’s salary a paring knife and an X-acto carving process. with the pumpkin season. I’m blade. In 2012, my mom not quite there yet. sent me a story about the I bathe all my pumpkins Maniac Pumpkin Carvers, a and store them with a fan What do you like about pumpkin-carving team, and I blowing on them so bugs don’t pumpkins as a medium? reached out. get in there. Then the first SEE PUMPKINS, PAGE F10

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Q. Wait, what’s a pumpkin-carving team?

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Well, there are very few of them. Maniac Pumpkin Carvers are two guys, Marc Evan and Chris Soria, who bring in artists during the season. They primarily do etching work, which is a style of carving where you’re peeling the skin and illuminating the pumpkins from the inside. I worked for them for a couple of years.

Q. How many top-tier carvers are there in the United States?

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“It looks like Javier Bardem,” Jasmine Taby, a 24-year-old college student from the Bronx, said as she watched the face being carved.

Bierton, 40, is a pumpkin carver who expects to carve more than 100 pumpkins this fall. His pumpkins appear to be snarling or wailing, and often have bulging eyeballs that he scoops from russet potatoes using a melon baller.

Unlike hollowed-out jack-o’lanterns, most of his carvings have their guts intact and are not lit from within.

His interest started in childhood, partly from watching his father carve.

“My household was very creative because my mother was a hairdresser, and my dad was a photographer,” he said. “My dad was always doing really outlandish jack-o’-lanterns, like, turning them upside down. He would always grab the deformed pumpkin.”

Later, as a student at the School of the Arts in Rochester, New York, he began

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A very merry Halloween CURRENT PRICES

APPY HALLOWeen from Kovels! Or, in the words of this postcard, “A Merry Halloween.” Despite the antiquated greeting and old-fashioned art style, this card has familiar Halloween icons you might see on today’s decorations: a child in costume, jacko’-lanterns, an owl, black cats and a full moon — complete with a face, of course.

The art style is characteristic of the early 1900s, and the postmark on the reverse dates it to 1911. So does its 1-cent stamp. You would have to spend considerably more on a postcard like this today: It sold for $100 at a Matthew Bullock auction.

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.

Haeger, planter, Halloween, figural, pumpkin, jack-o’-lantern, smiling face, eyelashes, orange ground, ribbed, 6 x 6 x 4 inches, $50.

Scale, balance, brass, marked, W & T Avery Ltd., Birmingham, countertop, 22 x 18 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, $70.

Halloween, figurine, Happy Ghost, shaded orange ground, smiling face, raised arms, Happy Halloween, black cat sitting on jack-o’-lantern, painted, art glass, signed, dated, Kim Barley, Fenton, 2015, 6 inches, $190.

Halloween, costume, orange jumpsuit, allover black print, jack-o’-lanterns, bats, crescent moons, cap, ruffle around neck and cuffs, matching hat, black eye mask, child’s, 44 inches, $205.

Weller, Woodcraft, vase, bud, double, two trunk shaped flutes, flowering branches in between, owl perched on top, repaired, 1920s, 14 inches, $230.

Coca-Cola, lamp, hanging, four milk glass panels, “Take Some Home,” “Things Go Better with Coke,” red and green lettering, 12 1/2 x 11 inches, $245.

Advertising, shelf, Luther Grinder Mfg. Co., iron sides, cutout lettering and vise, early 20th century, 14 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches, $475.

Stand, IBM dictating machine, walnut plywood, lacquered Masonite, chrome-plated steel, aluminum, four legs, caster feet, Eliot Noyes and Associates, c. 1960, 24 x 14 x 15 inches, $1,385.

Tea caddy, gilt bronze, figural, pumpkin, ribbed, cartouches on panels, raised figures alternate with blue and red enamel, 4 x 5 inches, $2,305.

Halloween, toy, mechanical, fiddle player, jack-o’-lantern face, painted, papier-mache, fabric clothes, 8 inches, $3,565.

Q. Working on settling

my mother’s estate, I found the attached piece of jewelry and newspaper article in her things. I’m trying to find its value and sell it so I can pay the estate bills. Any help would be appreciated.

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Bakelite is a type of plastic that was invented in 1907 and used until the 1960s. It was used for costume jewelry in the mid-20th century. Colorful figural pins or brooches were popular. In the 1980s, collectors became interested in vintage Bakelite jewelry. Its popularity increased over the next decade or so, with prices reaching new heights in the late 1990s. The article you included that lists a similar pin as $610 is from 2003, not long after vintage Bakelite jewelry was at its peak. Unfortunately, prices have dropped since then. Bakelite pins have sold for anywhere from $30 to $500 at recent auctions. Pins with human faces or figures like yours tend to sell for about $100 to $200. A dealer in vintage jewelry may help you get a more accurate estimate.

Q. We have a unique

payroll tally machine by the Denominator company in Brooklyn, New York, (number 1295) that was used to tally up different

This postcard is from 1911, but the scene of a costumed child with jack-o’-lanterns and black cats on a moonlit night wouldn’t look out of place at a Halloween celebration today.

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dollar and change amounts from $20 down to $0.01 with a $0.03 counter so you could take out the correct number of bills and coins out of the bank. The housing is made of metal and glass on a wooden base that is felt covered. On the top of the metal housing, it says “Denominator Patents Pending.” From what we could find out, it is from the early 1920s and all counters work. It also has a small shelf that contains the remnants of some kind of notepad. Considering its age, it’s in good condition. What do you think it’s worth?

in Brooklyn, but the patent for its payroll tally machine wasn’t granted until 1923.

In the 1930s, the company changed its name to The Denominator Co. and moved to Woodbury, Connecticut, where it is still making manual counters today. In the 1950s, they started making their counters with plastic cases instead of metal. The National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution has a Denominator payroll tally machine like yours in its collection. Counters and adding machines from the early to mid-20th century tend to sell for about $20 to The Denominator Adding $100 at auctions. Pieces in Machine Co. opened in 1914 excellent condition that can

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do more complex operations (such as multiplication and division) tend to get the highest prices.

Q. I have 16 Dunbar

Sweet Ada line bar glasses hand-painted with two men that say what I just said on them. I can find similar items, but cannot find these anywhere. I would appreciate knowing what they might be worth.

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Since 1985

from 1913 to 1953. They are known for their drinking glasses, pitchers and cocktail shakers. We have seen some sellers attribute the same Sweet Ada-Line design to the Wheeling Decorating Co. another West Virginia company that was in operation about the same time. Wheeling decorated glass that was made and marked by other factories. Your set of glasses is probably worth about $100. Large sets of decorated glassware do not often sell for high prices.

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Spooky plants for Goth gardens

By JESSICA DAMIANO

you touch this toxic North American native, your skin may blister. Have a taste, and you might die. Proceed with caution. (Better yet, maybe skip this one.)

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Think you’re ready for Halloween? Like me, you might have a pumpkin on the porch, a scarecrow by the lamppost and enough candy to guarantee leftovers, but do you have any spooky plants in your garden?

Probably not. And that’s too bad. We tend to think about spring by planting plenty of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses and pansies.

Summer is well planned, too, with blooming perennials, fruits, vegetables and hanging baskets brimming with annuals. So why is it that when we think of Halloween — the day that likely sees more visitors on our doorsteps than any other on the calendar — all that comes to mind are mums, sedums and whatever perennials are kind enough to stick around?

There are plenty of seasonally appropriate near-black and gothic plants to delight those little ghosts and goblins — and ourselves.

And we don’t need to overhaul the whole garden: Tucking just a few of these living decorations into beds or containers will do the trick. And that’ll be a treat for everyone.

Or keep it simple Think simpler is better? Add some orange and black(ish) pansies in beds and planters.

They’ll bloom until frost and again next spring until summer’s heat kills them off.

Jessica Damiano writes the award-winning Weekly Dirt Newsletter and regular gardening columns for The Associated Press.

Cut stems of the pumpkin on a stick plant displayed in a vase with yellow mums. (JUSTINE DAMIANO VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS)

lation until fruits shrivel and deepen in color.

Bat flower (Tacca chantrieri) A member of the yam family, this subtropical plant also looks like something it’s not: an orchid.

Grown as a houseplant in regions that don’t experience frosts and freezes, its flowers resemble bats in flight. And just like vampires, they don’t like direct sun.

Ghost plant (Monotropa uniflora) Also known as “Indian pipe,” this eerie North American and Asian native thrives in deeply shaded forests and can grow in complete darkness. The plant doesn’t produce any chlorophyll, which makes other plants green, so its stems are ghoulishly white. Leave them in the ground, though, because if you pick them, they will turn black.

Doll’s eye plant (Actaea pachypoda) Also known as white baneberry, this creepy plant’s red stems bear white berries with deep purple “pupils” in their centers, so it looks like it’s watching your every move.

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Pumpkin on a stick (Solanum integrifolium) These low-maintenance, seasonally perfect plants are actually not pumpkins at all.

They’re ornamental eggplants, grown over summer and harvested in fall, when their fruits, which grow along their stems, turn orange.

They’re best started from seed indoors in late winter or early spring and moved into the garden whenever tomatoes and eggplants are set out in your region.

Place cut stems in a water-filled vase, where they’ll hold up to two to four weeks, or clip off individual “pumpkins” to fill a bowl for a lovely autumn centerpiece.

For a longer-lasting decoration, remove leaves and hang stems upside down in a cool, dry spot with good air circu-

Dress the garden in black Although there aren’t any truly black plants, many deep

purple ones will fit the bill.

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This tree is a nutcracker’s best friend

LTHOUGH THE word “walnut” comes from the Anglo-Saxon words meaning “foreign nut,” from middle New England down to Florida the ground is now strewn with nuts from our native black walnut (Juglans nigrum). Why “foreign nut” (wealh-hnutu, in Anglo-Saxon), then? A related species, the Persian, or English, walnut (J. regia), was indeed a foreign nut when first introduced into England centuries ago.

Black walnut is a valuable tree, but not one to plant in, or even near, a garden. The tree grows an enormous canopy of leaves which will shade out sunlight, and the tree’s equally far-reaching root system will steal nutrients and water from garden plants.

Black walnut is a valuable tree, but not one to plant in, or even near, a garden. The tree grows an enormous canopy of leaves which will shade out sunlight, and the tree’s equally far-reaching root system will steal nutrients and water from garden plants. As if that were not enough, the black walnut secretes a compound, called juglone, which is toxic to certain plants. Tomato, the most commonly grown garden vegetable, is among those plants susceptible to the lethal effect of juglone.

If you have the space, plant a black walnut in a field where the tree will be valued beginning early in its life for its nuts, then later for its grandeur, and finally for its wood.

A tree produces about 30 pounds of nuts, shelling out up to 6 pounds of nutmeat.

Full-grown trees are truly majestic, with a height and width

If you buy trees, you have the option of buying either seedling or grafted trees.

The advantage to grafted trees is that they are clones of varieties selected or bred for some desirable characteristic, such as easy cracking, large nuts, etc. One disadvantage of planting nursery-grown trees is the inevitable damage that occurs to the black walnut’s long taproot during transplanting.

Given full sun, and a deep, well-drained, rich soil, black walnuts will grow rapidly, 2 or 3 feet each year. The trees rarely are bothered by air pollution or pests, but are sensitive to salt, so don’t plant the trees near roads. Space the trees 60 feet each way, though for wood production, they The “Master Nutcracker” offers many ways to crack out the delicious nutmeats from the tough can be planted at half that disshell of black walnuts. (LEE REICH PHOTO) tance in order to make trunks free of knots.

Lack of space or disinclinaGARDEN NOTES moisture management, and Stockbridge Road. the pros and cons of mulchtion to plant a black walnut STOCKBRIDGE ing will be covered. Students WILBRAHAM tree shouldn’t deprive you of need to get a soil sample the savory nuts. The strong Garden programs before class and bring the Club meeting taste does not appeal to Berkshire Botanical Garden results to the first class. Cost The Wilbraham Garden everyone, and you probably presents these upcoming is $215 members, $240 non- Club will meet Nov. 6 at St. can find a tree whose owner is programs: members; Cecelia’s Parish Center on willing to let you clean up the • Tuesdays, Oct. 31 to Nov. • Nov. 4, “Canopy Explora- Main Street. A luncheon of nuts littering the ground.

21, 5:30 to 8 p.m., “Soil tion: Tree Climbing.” Berksandwiches and dessert will Quite a few people, inHealth and Structure.” shire Botanical Garden and be served. Robin Desrochers cluding me, do like the black Taught by John Howell, this the Women’s Tree Climbing will present a talk on “Bird walnut’s flavor. I’ve never four-session course, will Workshop have partnered to Watching in Wilbraham.” planted a black walnut tree; explain how plant growth is host a one-day tree climbing She will discuss the different the squirrels do it for me — too affected by soils, from drain- experience from 10 a.m. to birds in the neighborhoods many, so each year I remove age to pH level and nutrients. 3:30 p.m. Cost $250 memand share some photos, and most of them.

Learn how to evaluate soils, bers, $280 nonmembers. will also discuss how one can Getting to the nutmeat is improve those that are less To register for these prohelp them survive. no easy task and begins with than ideal and amend soils grams or for more informathe messy job of removing for specific garden uses. tion, visit berkshirebotaniSend items for Garden Notes the soft hull. The hull leaves Fertilizers, soil amendments, cal.org. Berkshire Botanical to pmastriano@repub.com two a brown stain that is impossimaking and using compost, Garden is located at 5 West weeks prior to publication. ble to wash off hands. Some walnut mavens don an old pair of boots, then stomp of 75 feet or more. This is a signs of life until they have square of hardware cloth laid on the hulls. A method that tree to plant for posterity, for been stratified (i.e. exposed on top of the ground. Remove has been used long enough it matures in 150 years, and to cool, moist conditions) for the hardware cloth at winter’s almost to be called “traditionmight survive for 250 years a few months. Nuts planted end, then, in summer, thin the al” is to spread the nuts in the (at which point it is worth, outdoors receive this treatseedlings to the single sturdi- driveway and drive your car literally, thousands of dollars ment naturally, but also are est plant of each group. over them to squeeze the nuts for its wood)! apt to end up in the bellies of Nuts also can be stratified by from their spongy covering.

Black walnut trees can be a squirrels. To assure success putting them in a refrigerator I used to put on waterproof started by planting either with outdoor planting, plant in a plastic bag with some gloves, give each nut a tap nuts or nursery-grown trees. a few nuts about four inches dampened vermiculite or with a hammer and then twist If you plant the nut, don’t deep at each place where you peat. Plant the nuts outdoors off any of the spongy hull still expect immediate germinawant a tree, then protect the as soon as they sprout, in late adhering to the nut. tion. The seeds will show no planting from squirrels with a winter or early spring.

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277 Silver LLC, to Maya Associates LLC, 277 Silver St., $2,562,500.

Campagnari Construction LLC, to Brian Cote, 20 Ottawa St., $330,000.

By The Associated Press The average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan rose for the seventh straight week, creating an increasingly high bar to home ownership for Americans.

The rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage is at 7.79%, up from 7.63% last week, Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago the rate was 7.08%.

As mortgage rates rise, they can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, limiting how much they can afford in a market already out of reach for many Americans.

They also discourage homeowners who locked in far low rates two years ago, when they were around 3%, from selling.

The national median mortgage payment was $2,155 in September, up 11%, or $214, from a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes in September fell for the fourth month in a row, grinding to their slowest pace in more than a decade.

The rate on the 15-year loan rose to 7.03% from 6.92%. A year ago the rate on the loan, which is popular with homeowners their home loan, was at 6.36%.

“Purchase activity has slowed to a virtual standstill, affordability remains a significant hurdle for many and the only way to address it is lower rates and greater inventory,” said Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater.

The high rates are limiting applications for new mortgages. Wednesday the MBA reported that applications for new loans dipped to the slowest weekly pace since 1995.

Meanwhile, the share of applications for adjustable rate mortgages rose to 9.5%, the higher since November.

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Daniel Geiger, Rachel Geiger and Rachel Osada to Brian F. Moriarty, 79 Poinsetta St., $340,000.

Dorothy A. Sliech to Daniel M. Geiger and Rachel Geiger, 52 Edgewater Road, $350,000.

Raymond C. Harasik to Nathan J. Conklin, 77 Beekman Drive, Unit 77, $202,500.

Sara L. Holmes, trustee, Richard C. Holmes, trustee, and Charles H. Heimann Irrevocable Trust, trustee of, to Caroline A. Scherpa, 99 Pineview Circle, $335,000.

Thomas E. Schnepp and Cheryl L. Schnepp to Douglas Delaroche and Kim Delaroche, 28 Maynard St., $440,000.

AMHERST Francis X. O’Connor Jr., Francis X. O’Connor, Maribeth O’Connor, Kelley E. Rodrigue and Kelley E. O’Connor to Rongjuan Liu and Yi Feng, 29 Justice Drive, $404,000.

Kruppers LLC, to Enhan Wang, 80 Fearing St., $642,500.

Moulton to Priscilla Goldman, 30 Lafayette St., $365,000.

BRIMFIELD Dominic F. Mastroianni Sr., and Kathleen M. Mastroianni to Anthony Soto and Lisa Ann Wong, 88 Cubles Drive, $85,000.

Jockamo H. Baldina, Patricia A. Baldina, Patricia L. Baldina and Jack H. Baldina Jr., to William Gruber, trustee, and Kristen Wood Special Needs Trust, trustee of, 85 Hollow Road, $218,500.

Joseph Lace and Renee Lace to Chad Carter and Erin Carter, 108 Cubles Drive, $334,000.

Rezkallah Awad to Kianoosh Washington and Elham Zandvakili, 50 Meadow St., $279,000.

BELCHERTOWN Kelly O. Galster and Erin Galster to Mary Beth Gunther, 459 Franklin St., $575,000.

BERNARDSTON Denise M. King to Justin P. Law-

Kazimiera Bak, Richard S. Bak, Sara Ann LaFlamme, Sara Ann Bak and Kyle M. Bak to Nancy M. Benard and Donald G. Benard, 106 Lawrence Road, $344,900.

EASTHAMPTON James R. Witmer II, and Erin C. Witmer to Elaine M. Bryan, 3-3A Franklin St., $415,000.

Kyle J. Partridge and Caryn R. Partridge to Barbara Paulo, 44 Wallace St., $311,000.

Michael J. Goonan, Judithann M. Goonan and Judithann M. Campbell to Patrick E. Goonan and Kelsey Madison Prive, Mercedes St., Lot 6, $246,500.

Revampit LLC, to Adivio V. Gomes and Joao D. Brito, 123 Springfield St., $375,000.

Leonard R. Minnie and Joanne Minnie to Jewel Real Estate Inc., Palmer Road, $38,000.

Pamela Beall, estate, and Seth Beall, representative, to Manal Sara Moussaid and Reda Moussaid, 33 Sturbridge Road, $110,000.

RCFAM LLC, and REFAM LLC, to Paige Hill Properties LLC, Sturbridge Road, $180,000.

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Malia Homebuyers LLC, to Cherie Lynn Braun and Charles Wantland Brown, 61 North St., $360,000.

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Rena M. Sumner and Scott K. Sumner, “aka” Scott F. Sumner, to Andrew Cronyn and Richard Poyner, 1270 Whately Road, $415,000.

Sondra S. Pendleton to Tracey L. Solek, 728 Main Road, $49,900.

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Barbara Lynn Rinaldi and Thomas Rinaldi to Gabriel L. Fonseca and Alyssa D. Golden, 10 Stone Ridge Lane, $389,900.

David C. Malchow and Theresa J. Malchow to Brandon O’Brien, 11 Kenneth Lunden Drive, $435,000.

Erin Ahart, James Tyler Ahart and Erin Connors to Ryan B. McGuire and Cailin McGuire, 91 North Main St., $310,000.

Timothy F. Boyle and Alicia M. Carvalho to Jake Brennan and Megan Curran, 12 Cedar St., $253,000.

Hugh K. Martin to Megan Sullivan and Edward Sullivan II, 41 Holland Andrey Nesen and Manuella Nesen Drive, $250,000. to Mildred Jimenez, 45 Partridge LaPlante Construction and LaPlanLane, Unit 6243B, $205,000. te Construction Inc., to 60 Munson C&H Investments Inc., and C & H Meeting Way LLC, Purves Street, Investments Inc., to SS Enterprises Lot 1, $200,000.

Inc., 415 East St., $350,000.

Michelle McCarthy, Michelle Dalton Alexis to Meg Realty LLC, Thibault and Robert McCarthy to 18 Bemis St., $250,000.

Robert McCarthy and Carol A. McDonald J. Roy and Irene M. Roy Carthy, 70 Wood Ave., $260,000. to Brendan Levesque, 115 Tolpa Richard G. Elfman to LaPlante Circle, $440,000.

Construction Inc., Denslow Road, Jonathan W. Moulton and Erica L.

Lot 2, $325,000.

Cristin M. Lawson, personal representative, Stephen M. Barry, estate, Cristin M. Lawson and Shaun P. Barry to Cristin Lawson, 207 Hendrick St., $47,000.

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Canal Real Estate LLC, to Jose Faria and Maria Faria, 16 Lyman St., $140,000.

PAH Properties LLC, to Kelly R. Lewis and Carol E. Rhine, 65 Phelps St., $360,000.

Roger M. Paul to David P. Partee, 53 Colonial Circle, Unit D, $122,000.

Methuselah Realty Trust, trustee Torres Investment Firm LLC, to of, and Dominic Kirchner II, trustee, Catherine Kamau, 269 Chicopee to Jennysa Singvongsa and St., Unit 17, $167,000.

Jockamo Baldina, 26 Hollow Road, $445,000.

Terence M. Pease, Terrence M. Pease, Shelley J. King and Kelly Jonathan J. Kane and Karen M. Cardo- W. Pease to Lisa Estrada, 92 Old zo to Dominick C. LaCapra and Jane V. State Road, $275,000.

Pedersen, 18 Bayberry Lane, $827,500.

Dawn Rysdon to Lily Beatrice Soh, 24 Greenleaves Drive, $255,000.

Walter J. Crawford and Denise G. Crawford to Brian Gurski, 136 Meadow Road, $345,000.

Larry D. Geiser to Kyle Matthew Artus and Alyssa Catherine Llewelyn, 122 Bungalow Ave., $408,000.

Julie M. Lemay to Kara L. Younger, 49 Union St., $180,000.

BHO Realty LLC, to Behnaz Montaser Kohsari, 14 Solon St., $90,000.

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Deeds CONTINUES FROM PAGE F7 personal representative, and Claire Yezierski, estate, to Justin R. Yezierski and Kristen J. Yezierski, 255 River Drive, $240,000.

HAMPDEN Fumi Realty Inc., to Conery Morse, 159 Chapin Road, $63,546.

Joseph Hutchison, Krysta Hutchison and Krysta L. Zanetti to Ryan M. Terbush, 50 Baldwin St., $352,000.

HATFIELD Rene D. Grandmont and Suzanne M. Grandmont to Ryan R. Grandmont and Katie L. Grandmont, 6 Dike Road, $100.

HEATH Susan Willis, trustee of the Doray Investment Trust, to Laurie J. Evans, 22 Navaho Lane, $6,000.

HOLYOKE 328 Maple Street Realty Trust, trustee of, and Anthony Visone, trustee, to DB 2 LLC, 328-330 Maple St., $100.

and Michael R Flowers (EST) to Christopher J Behnk, 16 May Road, $302,000.

Robert D Bourdeau (II REP) and Robert D Bourdeau (EST SR) to Robert F Bourdeau, 415 Holyoke St, $170,000.

Shawn N Thompson and Kristina M Thompson to Darlene L Kennedy, 15 Victor St, $265,300.

NEW SALEM David J. Whitney and Megan R. Whitney to Carl Cramm and Hannah Miller, 34 Cooleyville Road, $345,000.

NORTHAMPTON John G. Gibbons and Alessandra Urbano to Alessandra Urbano, trustee, John G. Gibbons, trustee, and Urbano Gibbons Living Trust, 41-43 Lincoln Ave., $100.

Mildred Jimenez to Justine Louise Sheffler, 1041 Burts Pit Road, $371,000.

Cynthia D. Jerome to David Snow, 80 Damon Road, $185,000.

George Bucala, George Bucala, personal representative, Paul Duga III, estate, Linda Moynahan and Linda Moynihan to Day Farm LLC, 1095 Florence Road and Park Hill Road, $280,000.

St., $375,000.

Valerie P. Huard to Albert Dematos and Rebecca Dematos, 3120 Main St., Unit 11, $174,900.

PELHAM Erich Hinlein, trustee, and Doris M. Sherburne Irrevocable Trust to Kerri Ann Tester, 290 Amherst Road, $485,000.

ROWE Jeffrey McGuire, “aka” Jeffrey P. McGuire, and Sheryl McGuire, “aka” Sheryl C. McGuire, to Arik Olson, 48 Old Cyrus Stage Road, $316,000.

RUSSELL Tony Lee Lewis and Petra Lewis to Lizanne Campanini, trustee, Jonathan Fannin Special Needs Trust, trustee of, and Christine Fannin Irrevocable Trust, trustee of, 541 Woodland Way, $430,000.

SHUTESBURY Linda Avis Scott to Erin McGuirl and Steven McGuirl, 146 Baker Road, $363,000.

SOUTH HADLEY

Kelly R. Lewis and Carol E. Rhine to Kaitlynne Hardy-Pieczarka, 343 Brookside Circle, $335,000.

R. Harold Garrett-Goodyear to R. DB LLC, to DB 2 LLC, 294-298 Elm Harold Garrett-Goodyear, Cordelia St., $100.

H. Garrett-Goodyear, trustee, and R. Harold Garett-Goodyear Trust, Jessica L. Deyette to Plata O Plomo Katharine G. Baker, Katharine G. Baker, trustee, Baker Titelman 2012 31 Woodbridge Terrace, $100.

Inc., 340 Hampden St., $70,000.

Residential Real Property Trust, Stephen A. Rondeau to Stephen A. Joseph Sarrasin to Victor MachaRondeau, trustee, and Stephen A. do-De Jesus and Elga K. Ortiz Solis, Peter Titelman and Katharine G. Baker, attorney-in-fact, to Amy A. Rondeau 2023 Revocable Trust, 20 6 Arbor Way, Unit A, $158,000.

Kassatly and Lawrence Modestow, Meadow Lane, $100.

Mark J. Dizek, Todd Dizek and 11 Kensington Ave., $729,000.

Julianne F. Barkman to Jonathan Jeffrey Dizek to Megan E. Fanning, Jasmin and Natalie Richards, 11 30 Ashley Road, $310,000.

Dale St., $240,000.

NORTHFIELD Pedro Berrios to Gabriella Phelan, Benjamin T. Judge and Ann S. 44 Congress Ave., $225,000.

Robin Conley to James Boulton and Judge to Carly Anne Robinson and Lu Liu, 21 Old Bernardston Road., Alex Bowman, 37 Searle Road, $460,000.

LONGMEADOW $385,000.

Benjamin T. Lincoln, representative, ORANGE Marjorie S. Morgan, estate, and Marjorie Jane Morgan, estate, to Keith St. Jean, trustee of Flare Side Goodman LLC, 57 Woolworth St., Realty Trust, to Krista Leigh Sciuc$267,000. co, 55 Chase St., $252,500.

Daniel R. Schwarting and Meredith Michael W. Hamlett and Roger B. Hagaman to Eileen Castellanos W. Hamlett to Roger W. Hamlett and Robert J. Castellanos, 120 Sr., and Roger W. Hamlett Jr., 208 Crestview Circle, $675,000.

Holtshire Road, $70,000.

Jacob B. Webber and Olivia J. Webber to Neil Greene and Erica Greene, 389 Inverness Lane, $640,000.

Mark E. Salomone to Camille Burger and Sean Carroll, 0 Brookside Drive, $300,000.

LUDLOW Michael E. Flowers, representative, Steven A. Flowers (REPS), Michael Reynolds Flowers (EST)

L5 Development LLC, and Jensen Kevin Perez to Maria Estefania Jaramillo Ampuero and William Antonio Campuzano, 308 East Main St., $333,000.

PALMER A To Z Property Management & Renovations LLC, to Steven Mercure, 1644 North Main St., $250,000.

MT Home LLC, to Ana Hernandez and Jean C. Hernandez, 1061 Park

Joy E. Piquette to Bruce P. Piquette, trustee, and Revocable Indenture of Trust of Joy E. Piquette, 55 Brainerd St., $100.

SOUTHWICK Jason K. Lichtenberger and Kimberly P. Diaz to Launa Klimowicz and Douglas E. Brown, 105 Lakeview St., $590,000.

KMJ Associates LLC, to Kelly J. Cieplinski, trustee, and Kelly J. Cieplinski Living Trust, trustee of, 10 Rails End Road, Unit 4B, $415,900.

Paula Wells to Connor J. Birchall, 210 Hillside Road, $272,000.

Shirley Cross to James Foley, 7 Pineywood Road, $282,000.

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96 Magnolia Terrace LLC, to Emily Sprague and Jami Sprague, 96 Magnolia Terrace, $470,000.

Relegacy Investments LLC, to Giovanni Paz and Maria Paz, 253255 Oak St., $445,000.

Alethea A. Haines, Alethea A. Stevenson and James Stevenson III, to Shanu Shanmugampillai and Priyajit Biswas, 151 Packard Ave., $305,000.

Rosalyn Champlain, Rosalyn V. Reese and Malik Champlain to Keron Leslie, 71 Grape St., $245,000.

Alfred Shattelroe, receiver, Springfield City and Rose Vona to Alfred Shattelroe, 50 Winthrop St., $300,000.

Betty Deluca to Andrea M. Bushman, 676 Parker St., $306,000.

Wilson & Family Real Estate LLC, to Sandra Roman and Benigno Rivera, 54 Hood St., $270,000.

Casey L. Brown and Joshua L. Brown to Anthony Quinones and Abil J. Ocasio, 12 Skyridge Lane, $365,000.

Delia I. Pinero and James Warren Smith to Ruth M. Avila, 367 Nassau Drive, 367, $185,000.

Royal Hill LLC, to Anissa Lee Nieves, Anissa Nieves, Ana Ivett Frasco, Ana I Frasco and Ana Frasco, 63 Gilman St., $220,000.

Sonia Cordero Marte, Sonia Gonzalez, Sonia Cordero Marta, Nohelia A. Pena Cordero and Silverio Gonzalez to Silvia Gonzalez, 517-519 Hancock St., $290,000.

Steven E. Zeimbekakis and George Zeimbekakis to Posiadlosc LLC, 392-394 Carew St., $163,500.

Steven E. Zeimbekakis and George Zeimbekakis to Posiadlosc LLC, 74 Laurence St., $101,000.

SUNDERLAND

Douglas F. Houle to Dianne F. Houle, James D. Houle and Wendy M. Houle, 88 Old Amherst Road, Dorine L. Alvaro to Dorine L. Alvaro, $187,500. life estate, Kevin Manley, Jessica Pronovost and Kerry Jackson, 191 TOLLAND Overland St., $100.

Dimetrius A. Hatcher to Idamaris Vega, 32-34 Fresno St., $335,000.

Fannie Mae and Federal National Mortgage Association to Eric Chang and Tok Chang, 239-241 St. James Boulevard, $145,000.

James F. O’Brien to Phuc Duong, WS Sabin Street, $45,000.

JJJ17 LLC, to Emilio Jose Bruno Diaz and Emilio Bruno Carrillo, 261 Sunrise Terrace, $300,000.

JJJ17 LLC, to Nelson Luciano, 52-54 Stockman St., $350,000.

Joanne L. Lupi to Thomas Wilson, 665 Belmont Ave., $150,000.

Lachenauer LLC, to Lassarone Charlemagne, 403-405 Main St., $344,000.

Lachenauer LLC, to Lee A. Dutil, 6 Rogers Ave., $131,000.

Sullivan Property Preservation LLC, to Keys Upgrade LLC, 66 Crystal Ave., $175,000.

Madlog Management LLC, trustee, and Riverview Street Realty Trust, trustee of, to Will J. Severe and Linda J. Severe, 50 Riverview St., $300,000.

Mark A. Wikar to Lismarie S. Negron Morales, 86 Anniversary St., $278,000.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., trustee, and 2004-3 Accredited Mortgage Loan Trust, trustee of, to Camilla J. Miller, 174 Pineywoods Ave., $248,500.

Patricia A. Maione and Patricia Allard-Maione to Robert Foster and Patricia Foster, 12 Prescott St., $367,000.

Paul L. Keyes to Beacon Cornerstone LLC, 31 Freeman Terrace, $115,000.

Plata O Plomo Inc., to Aramis Ruiz and Janet Ruiz, 18 Greenacre Square, $270,000.

Dina Dumezil to Diane Caswell Christian, 2000 New Boston Road, $180,000.

WALES Sherry Latour, Jeffrey Raoul Latour and Sherry L. Latour to Jeffrey Raoul Latour, 77 Mt. Hitchcock Road, $150,000.

WARE Rebecca L. McIntyre to Jeremy J. Donnelly, 15 Wildflower Drive, $27,500.

Nu-Way Mobile Home Supplies Inc., to Jeannine Wingert and Benjamin Wingert, 15 Willow St., $112,500.

Lynn M. Elmy and Keith T. Elmy to Lynn M. Elmy, trustee, Keith T. Elmy, trustee, and Elmy Family Living Trust, 17 Castle St., $100.

Gary Desjardins, Mark Desjardins, Glen Desjardins, Anne Young and Jill Svagdis to Jason Desjardins and Gary Desjardins, 195 Sczygiel Road, and 195 Sygiel Road, $100.

WEST SPRINGFIELD Andrew J. Gasperini and Robin B. Gasperini to Nathaniel M. Mish and Hannah P. Mish, 2165 Westfield St., $255,000.

WESTFIELD Aldo Palazzi to Dario Duchi and Cristina A. Mayancela, 108 Elizabeth Ave., $317,000.

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The Leverett estate of Yankee Candle founder Michael J. Kittredge II is for sale at $23 million.

Three years after his death, Kittredge’s son, Michael J. “Mick” Kittredge III, put the property on the market in September 2022. Below, the home’s water park.

(SURETTE MEDIA GROUP AND DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE)

LEVERETT

YouTuber MrBeast films $23M estate

Home has 2 car barns with space for 80 cars, a concert space, 16 bedrooms, a 9-hole golf course, indoor water park

By Taylor Sanzo

tsanzo@masslive.com

One of the biggest YouTube creators on the planet took a recent trip to Leverett, touring and filming the $23 million Yankee Candle estate.

In MrBeast’s most recent YouTube video, the creator and his crew head around the country, showcasing houses ranging in price from just $1 to a mega-mansion worth $100 million, and all prices in between. The video already has accumulated over 115 million views.

Of the various estates they toured, one iconic Massachu-

setts property made the list.

The home at 113 Juggler Meadow has two car barns with space for a total of 80 classic cars, a concert space, 16 bedrooms, a nine-hole golf course, pool, indoor water

park and an two-story arcade.

It went on the market going for a whopping $23 million.

It is better known as the home of Yankee Candle founder Michael J. Kittredge II.

when touring one of the four living rooms in the estate.

The owner of the home even left custom-made MrBeast candles for the crew while they toured the property. The crew credited the customs candles to smelling like the beach.

Despite the family spearheading a huge candle conglomerate, the house actually doesn’t smell much like candles.

In September 2022, one of Kittredge’s daughters, Kylie Kittredge, gave her TikTok followers “realistic insight” to what it was like growing up in the home.

Kittredge told followers “we didn’t really burn scented candles in our house.”

Three years after his death, She said on the rare occaKittredge’s son, Michael J. sion they did, it would be one “Mick” Kittredge III, put the candle in the kitchen with a property on the market in Sep- popular scent like balsam. tember 2022.

“For the most part, if we “This is grand,” one of the were using candles, it would MrBeast crew members said be unscented candles.”

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A.

Every single pumpkin is unique, and the material changes. It’s not a consistent medium like wood or clay. I don’t usually have a design before I have a pumpkin — the size and shape leads into the design. I also love the ephemeral part. I have to create something that I can’t keep.

Q. What do most people do wrong when carving?

A.

The biggest mistake is cutting a hole in the top of the pumpkin.

Q. Say more!

A. Something I learned is to

go in through the back, by cutting a big square or an octagon.

Cutting a hole in the top of the pumpkin takes away from the character of a long, ornate stem. People cut the bottom too. That’s no good, because the juice ends up everywhere.

Adam Bierton, a pumpkin carver who comes up with carving motifs based on the pumpkins’ sizes and shapes, at the New York Botanical Garden, where he has been doing weekend demonstrations since 2018, in New York. (AMIR HAMJA / THE NEW YORK TIMES)

There’s no blown-up spiders, even though my wife tries to bring that stuff home.

A. It’s all pumpkins. I don’t

All the time. I don’t have time for that! I don’t think people understand that I spend six

up the cavity of the pumpkin, it comes with the job? has a good chance of lasting up to two weeks. It depends on the I don’t sleep in October.

A.

I’m doing two or three pumpkins every single day. It’s exhausting, but there’s just no other way because it’s a time-sensitive medium. I try to tell all my corporate clients, like, let’s shoot in November, and we can use it for 2024.

They’re like, nobody’s thinking about next Halloween.

Cracker

mixer attachment on a drill, then pour them onto a mesh large enough for hulls to wash through with a hose, but small enough to retain the hulled nuts.

Once nuts are without hulls and dry, they need to be cured in a cool, dry, squirrel-proof location for a couple of months.

Now you’re down to the nut’s hard shell. And I do mean hard — waste shells from walnut factories are used in “sandblast” cleaners for jet engines, and as commercial metal polishers. I hold a nut on a brick and give the nut a sharp rap with a hammer. The trick is to crack the shell, not to reduce the nut to a pile of

crushed shells and nutmeats.

Even better is to purchase the Master Nutcracker, worth every cent for its innovative design if you’re a black walnut lover.

Black walnuts are rich and strong-flavored, so just a few are needed to flavor a batch of cookies.

And don’t worry about

calories; you probably burn up more calories gathering, de-hulling, then cracking the nuts than you get from eating them.

Any gardening questions?

Email them to me at garden@ leereich.com and I’ll try answering them directly or in this column. Come visit my garden at leereich.com/blog.

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30-32 Park St., $468,000.

Anderson and Cody T. Anderson, 39 Magnolia Terrace, $615,000.

Jeevan Kafley and Sumitra Gurung to Andrey Nesen, 109 Joseph Ave., $312,000.

Randolph R. Calvo and Sharon K. Calvo to Richard Howitt and Susan Howitt, 7 Westwood Drive, $512,000.

Q. How do you decorate Q. Do friends ask you to your own house for Halloween? get in with the tacky stuff.

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My latest innovation in removing the hulls is to let the nuts in their hole sit for a few days to soften the hulls.

The I put the in a 5 gallon bucket with water, mix them vigorously with a large paint

carve pumpkins for them?

A.

Kelly J. Cieplinski, trustee, and Kelly J. Cieplinski Living Trust, CONTINUED FROM PAGE F8 trustee of, to Jonathan Zuber and Abby Zuber, 25 Big Wood Drive, Edward Paul Andreski to Mary Beth $577,300.

Tichacek and Kenneth Charles Paul R. Troy to Christopher Ramos, Tichacek, 149 Glenwood Drive, 21 Allen Ave., $380,000. $339,000.

Jeremy J. Beltrandi to Viktor Pikulskyi and Anastasiia Pikulska,

Sandra L. Fiedler to Shannon N.

hours on a single carving.

Q. How long will the

pumpkin you carved today at the botanical garden last?

freshness of the pumpkin and the elements it’s in. If it’s in the beating sun and there’s bugs and squirrels? See you later.

Q. How do you manage A. Because I haven’t opened the time pressure that

William F. Reed, trustee, and William F. Reed Family Nominee Trust, trustee of, to APA Properties LLC, 0 North Elm Street, $15,000.

WESTHAMPTON Valerie Haggerty, trustee, and Cole Irrevocable Trust to Andrew Beaulieu and Tammie Beaulieu, Main Road, $36,000.

Stony Hill Road, $310,000.

WHATELY

Michael A. Tromblay, David T. Tromblay and Ashley T. Tromblay to Michael A. Joseph F. Mieczkowski III, and Michele Tromblay and Ashlee M. Tromblay, 103 M. Mieczkowski to Justin J. Mieczkow- Burleigh Road, $303,333. ski, 16 Straits Road, $162,000.

William L. Meeker, William L. Meeker Sr., and Sharron H. O’Day to WilWILBRAHAM liam D. John and Catelyn Johnson, 291 Three Rivers Road, $520,000.

Christopher J. Behnk to Valerie P. Huard and Jennifer A. Huard, 12 Delmor Circle, $340,000.

WILLIAMSBURG Elizabeth Damato and Regina L. Damato to Joan A. Devitto, 161

Kathryn J. Harry to Gregory Harry, 67 Depot Road, $175,000.

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LAND: ±20 Acres of Land • Private Well • Gravel Driveway & Vehicle Parking • Zoned: Agricultural Residential • Deed Reference: Book 19657, Page 348 • IMPROVEMENTS: Single Building Equestrian Facility • STABLE: 30’x45’ (±1,350 S/F) Wood Framed w/ Water & Electric • INDOOR RIDING AREA: 72’x144’ (±10,368 S/F) • Pole Construction • Peaked Roof • • Doors (Either Side) • Light Panel Windows • Sand Riding Surface • Viewing Room • STABLE COMPLEX AREA: ±7,486 S/F w/ Upper & Lower Levels • Concrete Slab Floor • Horse & Grooming Stalls • Tack Room • Mechanical Room • Feed Room • • General Purpose Room • Office • 2ND FLOOR: Rough Framed (Apartment) • Hay Storage • Sale Per Order of Mortgagee Terms of Sale: Attorney Jonathan R. Goldsmith $20,000.00 Deposit Bank Treasurer’s Check or Certified Funds. Deposit to be increased to 10% 1350 Main Street, Springfield, MA of Purchase Price within 5 Business Days.

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5-7 EAST STREET AT 11:00 A.M. • 2 Story Two Family Style Home • ±15,002 S/F of Land • • Total of (10) Rooms w/ (4) Bedrooms & (2) Baths • • ±2,184 S/F of Gross Living Area Above Grade • • Electric Hot Water Baseboard Heat • Full Basement • • Wood Shingle/Clapboard Siding • • (2) Open & Enclosed Porches • Public Water & Sewer • • Zoned: URB - Urban Residential • • Assessor’s Parcel #: Map 38B, Lot 313 • 180-182 NORTH STREET AT 12:00 P.M.

• 2 Story Two Family Style Home • ±6,820 S/F of Land • • Total of (10) Rooms w/ (4) Bedrooms & (2) Baths • • ±2,416 S/F of Gross Living Area Above Grade • • Oil Steam Heat • Full Basement • Vinyl Siding • • (3) Open Porches • Public Water & Sewer • • Zoned: URB - Urban Residential • • Assessor’s Parcel #: Map 25C, Lot 18 •

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West Springfield, MA • Philadelphia, PA 413-733-5238 • 610-853-6655 MA Auc. Lic #161 • PA Auc. Lic. #AY000241L

MA Auc. Lic #161 • PA Auc. Lic. #AY000241L

Thursday, November 2, 2023

2 fam, 3,073 sf liv area, 0.15 ac lot, 14 rm, 6 bdrm, 3 bth, Hampden: Book 17049, Page 17 TERMS: Cashier’s or certified check in the sum of $5,000.00 as a deposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder. NO CASH. No personal checks will be accepted. Cashier/certified checks should be made out to whomever is going to bid at the auction. The balance to be paid within thirty (30) days at the law offices of Korde & Associates, P.C. 900 Chelmsford Street, Suite 3102, Lowell, MA 01851, Attorney for the Mortgagee.

Auctioneer makes no representation as to the accuracy of the information contained herein.

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Auctions AARON POSNIK & CO. INC. Indust & Comm. Auctions 31 Capital Dr. W. Spfld.

733-5238 www.posnik.com DouglasAuctioneers.com

ESTATES-ANTIQUES 413-665-2877

MORTGAGEES’ REAL ESTATE AUCTIONS TO BE SOLD ON THEIR RESPECTIVE PREMISE

MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT PUBLIC AUCTION

4:00 PM - SPRINGFIELD 283 Wilbraham Road

ABC Masonry & Basement Waterproofing STOP ALL WATER LEAKAGE Brick, block, stone, stucco, concrete, chimneys, foundations, hatchways, New & repair.

Basement windows, sump pumps, and damp proofing. Lic 120263 569-1611 or 413-3745377ABC MasonryABC MasonryABC Masonry

Miscellaneous Services

Auctions

In print in The Republican or online at MassLive.com

www.posnik.com • E-Mail:info@posnik.com

sgl fam, 1,292 sf liv area, 0.46 ac lot, 5 rm, 3 bdrm, 1 bth, Hampden: Book 15340, Page 132

413-246-7999 anytime

Masonry/Concrete

Merchandise Antiques/Collectibles Appliances Articles for Rent Articles For Sale Audio Building Materials Cameras Camping Equipment Clothing Coins and Stamps Construction Equipment Do-In-Yourself Materials Electronics/Compuiters Fitness Equipment Flea Markets Forklifts and Equipment Fuel Furniture, Etc. Good Things To Eat Hot Ticket Items Jewelry Lawn & Garden Lawnmower & Snowblower Machinery & Tools Med. Equipment Sales/Wanted Miscellaneous Musical Instruments Office Equipment Pools, Spas & Accessories Professional Equipment Restaurant Equipment Seasonal Snowmobiles Sports Television Tickets Video Vintage Clothing Wanted to Buy Wood-Burning Stoves

CLASSIFIEDS

West Springfield, MA • Philadelphia, PA 413-733-5238 • 610-853-6655

3:00 PM - SPRINGFIELD 63 Telbar Street

Stanley and Son’s Paving Third Generation - Driveway, p arking lots, etc.

- All types of paving - Estimates gladly given - All work guaranteed - Senior Citizens discount

www.posnik.com • E-Mail:info@posnik.com

CLASSIFIEDS

AUCTIONEERS•APPRAISE R S

2 fam, 2,979 sf liv area, 0.13 ac lot, 13 rm, 6 bdrm, 2 bth, Hampden: Book 23066, Page 393

Driveway/Paving

Aaron Posnik

In print in The Republican or online at MassLive.com

2:00 PM - SPRINGFIELD 347-349 Newbury Street

Place your service ad 24/7.

Call (413) 788-1234 or go to: www.MassLive.com

AUCTIONEERS•APPRAISERS

In print in The Republican or online at MassLive.com In print in The Republican or online at MassLive.com

Sale Per Order of Mortgagee Attorney C. Barry Waite Of the firm of Resnic, Beauregard, Waite & Driscoll 330 Whitney Avenue, Holyoke, MA Attorney for Mortgagee Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 Deposit Cash or Certified Funds.

5% Buyer’s Premium Applies.

Other Terms to be Announced at Time of Sale

Professional Service Directory in Print and Online

Sale Per Order of Mortgagee Attorney Joseph J. Lange Of the Firm of Lyon & Fitzpatrick, LLP 14 Bobala Road, Holyoke, MA Attorney for Mortgagee Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 Initial Deposit Per Property by Bank or Certified Funds.

Deposits to be increased to 10% of Purchase Price within 5 Business Days.

5% Buyer’s Premium Applies.

Other Terms to be Announced at Time of Sale.

CLASSIFIEDS

• Two Story Colonial Style Home • ±6,098 S/F of Land • • Total of (6) Rooms w/ (3) Bedrooms & (2) Baths • • ±1,348 S/F of Total Living Area • Oil Hot Water Baseboard Heat • • Full Basement • Vinyl Siding • Public Water & Sewer • • Front Porch • Zoned: R2/Residential • Map ID: 039000009 •

CALL THE PROS

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MORTGAGEE’S FORECLOSURE AUCTION HELD ON THE PREMISES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2023 11 AM 78-80 Shamrock Street, Springfield, MA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2023 1 PM 133 Hayden Street, Orange, MA 1 PM 78 Monson Road, Wales, MA Terms of Sale: Unless specified above, present a $5000 bank check deposit at sale.

The balance shall be paid 30 days from the sale. Other terms may be announced at sale.

Auctioneer makes no representations as to the accuracy of the information contained herein.

NO CASH T. Gravlin - MA License AU 3112

2:00 a.m.

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GENERAL ESTATE AUCTION FRI, NOV. 3, AT 6 PM

Including furniture, glass & china, small antiques, artwork, wood planes, bottles, coins, silver, jewelry, wicker sets, and more.

PREVIEW: 8AM - 6 PM www.DouglasAuctioneers.com

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2023

3:00 PM - RUSSELL, MA 434 BLANDFORD ROAD A/K/A 434 BLANFORD ROAD DEPOSIT $5,000

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2023 12:00 PM - ASHFIELD, MA 86 SOUTH STREET DEPOSIT $5,000 TERMS OF SALES: DEPOSITS IN THE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED ABOVE ARE TO BE PAID BY THE PURCHASER(S) AT THE TIME AND PLACE OF EACH SALE BY CERTIFIED OR BANK CHECK. ALL BALANCES DUE ARE TO BE PAID WITHIN 30 DAYS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL SALE. OTHER TERMS, IF ANY, TO BE ANNOUNCED AT EACH SALE. CALL OUR AUCTION SCHEDULE LINE AT (617) 964-1282 FOR A LIST OF THE CURRENT DAY’S AUCTIONS AND VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.commonwealth auction.com FOR CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED SCHEDULING INFORMATION AND ADDITIONAL SCHEDULING INFORMATION COMMONWEALTH AUCTION ASSOCIATES, INC. (617) 964-0005 MA LIC 2235

Articles for Sale

1,000’s of sports cards, all big stars, at least 50% off. 1950’s to present.

BUYING ALL SPORTS CARDS, RETIRED VETERAN Selling at $2.50 per box.

CALL 413-596-5783 2022 National Purple Heart $5 Gold Proof coin.

Issued by US mint, low mintage with box, COA, $730./best offer, call 413-426-7063 Collector pays cash for stamp collections, lrg or sml. Call RON for sale or eval. 413-896-3324

Jewelry Cabinet w/ 8 drawers, 2 side panels and mirror full of sanitized modern fashion jewely, $750 or best offer.

XXL Snow leopard fox fur coat, never worn, $50.

XXL Silver Puffercoat w/ fox fur collar, never worn, $50, Ask for Lisa in Ludlow, 413-949-5445 Snowthrower, 26 in selfpropelled, 2-stage electric start, night light, $425. Call 413-594-4905

F12 | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023

THE REPUBLICAN | MASSLIVE.COM

WILBRAHAM

HOLYOKE

OPEN SUN. 12:00-2:00 pm 45 Lodge Lane • $675,000

OPEN SUN. 11AM – 1PM 27 Cherry Hill • $335,000

3 bed, 1.5 Baths, 1678 sq/ft. Meticulously maintained 3 bedroom colonial with updated kitchen and baths. 2nd Floor laundry, 1 car garage, plus a screened in porch!

ERIN CALLAHAN B&B REAL ESTATE • 413-575-0657 WWW.MOVINGWESTERNMASS.COM

Step 1: Go to masslive.com/realestate

Articles for Sale

Cats

Two Raleigh Venture 20in & 14in bikes, one Polaris 20 in Swimano gear bike for sale, $150 for all three or best offer, call 413-3887694.

Maine Coon Bengal Siamese mix kitten, 1F $35.00.

Call (no text) 413-777-9659

Clothing Clarks Navy Blue slip-on sneakers, 7N, Never worn, $45 or B/O, 413-583-4266

Med. Equip Sales/Wanted Full adjustable medical bed w/remote control, like new, $500.

Call 413-537-0650

Wanted To Buy Cash paid, LP records 45’s, CD’s, reel-to-reel tapes.

Rock, Jazz, Blues, Classical. Scott 518-424-8228

Animals Birds Cats Dogs Exotic Animals Feed Fish Horses Livestock Pet Services Pet Shows Pet Supplies Pets - Lost & Found Pets Wanted

Cats Kitten for sale, male, 2 month old, looks like a tiger, $190, call for details 413-244-8046

Dogs 8 weeks, AKC pure bred Boston Terrier Puppies, 4 available (2M & 2F) Call 413-207-4664

AKC German Shepherd Pups, 4m & 3 f, Black & tan, black & red, and sables. AKC paperwork & all shots/worming up to date, written hip-andhealth guarantee, parents on premises, raised in country setting, $1400, call 978-249-3724 Border Collie pups, 8 weeks, black and white, vet-checked, shots, wormed, $700, 860-449-2246

WELCOME HOME! Featuring our newest floor plan “ The Grandview”. Free standing two bedroom condo with an open floor plan features floor to ceiling windows in the living room, gas fireplace, eat in kitchen w/breakfast bar, backsplash, granite countertops, under cabinet lighting and stainless steel appliances. Relax and enjoy the beautiful all season sunroom off the dining room and trex deck. Beautiful primary bedroom suite offers tray ceiling, walk-in closet, bath w/ double vanity granite countertops, stand up shower and linen closet. Finished room in the lower level. Two car attached garage.

MARISOL FRANCO - BROKER ASSOCIATE COLDWELL BANKER REALTY • 413-427-0151

Step 2: Enter the city you want to find a home in

Dogs

English Golden Retriever puppies M/F. Both parents on premises. Many generations loved and shown. Reserve now.

Ready Oct. 20, 2023 413531-1373

Golden Retriever female, 1 1/2 years, sweet, vet checked, perfect home only $750. 413-531-1373, 413-367-2405

Tag Sales

Tag Sales Tag Sales

Puppy, 2 months, mixed Husky w/Labrador. $900.

Call 413-244-8046

Teddy Bear Puppies, pure white $650/ea. For info. text or call Lori 413-966-9152

Step 3: Select the home you want to visit and build your driving tour

Chicopee, 34 Sergeant Ave. Sat. & Sun. 10/28 & 10/29, 8-4pm. Mostly new items, hshld. & more.

Tag Sales

SPRINGFIELD

104 Eleanor Road

Sat. 10/28, 9-5 Sun. 10/29, 9-5

Nice hope with furnishings, a collection of Byers’ Choice figures, glassware, lots of lawn equipment, incl. John Deere & Simplicity Tractor, alum. boat with trailer. Prof’l keyboard and case, Technics stereo system, audio mixer, high grade speakers, artwork, fishing equipment vintage bandsaw.

John & Jackie" M.R. Russo Company

Ware estate sale 8 Oakridge Circle.

October 28 and 29. 9 AM to 3 PM Sunday clearance.

Large selection of Primitive style decor.

Furniture (beds, couches, bureaus), clothing (men’s /women’s), Vintage bar with Budweiser signs, elephant collection, holiday, golf, linens.

Quality items at great prices! (Lori)