Monthly Archives: April 2011

Year’s biggest garage sale a treasure trove for bargain-hunters

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LIVERPOOL bargain-hunters will hope to find one man’s trash is another man’s treasure at the nation’s biggest garage sale this weekend. Garage doors across Liverpool will open this Sunday for the Garage Sale Trail which will see thousands of garage sales held all over the country. The event began in Bondi last year to help combat the problem of illegal dumping. Visit the Garage Sale Trail home page This year at least 30 council areas, including Liverpool, will take part. Twelve Read more [...]

Upcoming Open Houses Around Dedham, April 9 – April 10

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Vacation-home sales continue to fall

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Sales of vacation homes in the United States plunged in 2010 to about half the record number reached in the real estate boom years of 2005 and 2006, research by the National Association of Realtors shows. Last year, such sales fell to 543,000, down 1.8 percent from 553,000 in 2009, the data show. Sales of primary homes declined as well, down 5.6 percent in 2010 to 3.81 million, from 4.04 million the previous year, the Realtors association reported. During Read more [...]

Acquisition deal for AIM-listed companies

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Print Email Text size Comment AIM-listed Blinkx has acquired a fellow American and AIM company with the acquisition of Burst Media Corporation, the online advertising services and technology business, for a total of $30 million (£18.5 million). Blinkx, which has offices in London, provides a video search engine that has indexed 35 Read more [...]

Hollister police deny concert with rapper ‘Too Short’

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The show will not go on. The Hollister Police Department decided to decline the permit of the April 22 concert involving rapper "Too Short" at the Veterans Memorial Building, and authorities cited discrepancies on the application, Capt. David Westrick said. Hollister resident Rick Villegas, his son Josh and business partner Josh Dahl decided last month they wanted to bring something to the city for kids, the promoters said earlier this week. Their idea was to hold an all-ages concert that wouldn't Read more [...]