This Week's Chelmsford Real Estate Overview: May 23

A weekly roundup of real estate in town from our partners at Zillow.

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Chelmsford DPW employees complete competency training for excavation and trenching

Two municipal employees from Chelmsford recently participated in a Competent Person Training for Excavation and Trenching

LETTER: Employment Solutions?

My previous blog concluded the current unemployment and underemployment situation is permanent due to infrastructure changes and technologies resulting increasingly in non manual jobs able to be conducted from dispersed locations with less expensive labor

Five Budget-Friendly Cars for Sale

Some of us fondly remember our first "beater," a car that we had just to get from A-to-B.

5 Easy-To-Pull-Off April Fools' Jokes

Pulling a prank on someone can be done easily with these five April Fools' Day tips.

Editor's note: Thanks to a member of our Patch family in Murrieta, CA, for these great ideas. April 1—the day as a child you waited for with bated breath. Perhaps you were the one who thought for weeks about the best and most elaborate schemes to fool your friends or family. Or perhaps you were the one who took advantage of the day and ran around shouting “April Fools'” to every little thing.  No matter your fooling style, one thing is for sure:  the good-natured pranks of the day bring out the kid in all of us, regardless of age. In honor of April Fools' Day, here are five fun and easy pranks to pull wherever you are, including some of our own and some we have rounded up for you: 1.) Prank your spouse or even your children during your …

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March Madness 2013: Your Printable Bracket, First Round of NCAA Tournament Begins on Tuesday

Do you think one of the four top-seeded teams will bring home the championship April 8?

March Madness is upon us as the annual NCAA Division I men's college basketball tournament gets under way Tuesday, March 19, and it wouldn't be March Madness without the bracket. (You'll find a handy, printable bracket in the PDF to the right of this text.)  Is yours filled out?  It's single elimination games as 68 teams complete for the national championship title, and Stoneham Patch wants to know which teams you predict will make it to the final four and which team you anticipate will be the 2013 NCAA Division I champion.  For those unfamiliar with bracketology, USA Today offers tips for those filling out a bracket for the first time and The Huffington Post shares 10 things you should know for the tournament.  While workers across the …

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Lean Cuisine Recalls Ravioli After Glass Found In Product

Parent company Nestle voluntarily recalls two product codes of the Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli, after 3 consumers reported finding glass fragments.

If you have Lean Cuisine's Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli in your freezer, don't eat it before checking the product codes. If the box bears either production code 2311587812 or 2312587812 and the "best before date" appears as DEC 2013, then the product is part of a voluntary recall after three consumers reported finding glass fragments in the ravioli. No injuries have been reported. According to a press release, "The entree being recalled was produced during early November, 2012. Due to its popularity, Nestle believes very little remains in retail distribution." You can find the production code look for the gray "proof of purchase" panel, located on the right end flap of the package, below the ingredient statement, the …

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Fire Department Site Plan and Marijuana Dispensary Warrant Article Will Be Discussed Tonight

More information later here on Patch.

CREATING PEACE IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE

This two week workshop will offer participants an opportunity to learn and practice meditation, gentle movement, and breathing techniques that decrease stress and anxiety. In addition, we will discuss ways to eliminate thought and behavior patterns that i