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Front Door Directory Not Working

Just a heads up: I’m told that the front door phone directory is not working and that management has been notified.  If you’re expecting anyone, it would be good to make sure they have both your apartment number and your phone number. (I’m not clear as to whether it’s just the directory or the whole system that’s iffy)

Planned Power Outage?

Just a heads up that there may be a planned power outage between 11pm Tuesday night and 5am Wednesday morning to do some underground repairs.  I didn’t receive notification myself but had the info passed along to me by a neighbor who did get a call.  I couldn’t find any further information online; the closest I came was this FAQ page.  If anyone else knows more, please post in the comments.

In the meantime, I need to check the battery backup in my alarm clock!

Snow Emergency Parking Ban

A parking ban officially starts at 5:00am tomorrow morning, so unless you’re planning to be up that early in the morning to move your car out of the surface lot tomorrow, you should probably move it tonight.  Here’s the police department statement.  The statement doesn’t give an end time for the ban but the Snow Emergency itself officially ends at 8:00pm tomorrow; the parking ban may, or may not, last somewhat longer.

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Snow Emergency(?)

Please be aware that there is a snow emergency going into effect sometime today (late today?) until Friday.  Unfortunately, I’m not good at registering details from automated phone calls received before 5:00am and I haven’t been able to find any online announcements as of yet.  In any case, I’m pretty sure they said the 8th through the 10th and we are supposed to be getting up to a foot of snow tomorrow, so please think twice before leaving your car in the surface lot tonight.

Carpenter Recommendations

A resident is looking for recommendations for a carpenter to install built-in book shelves.  Please feel free to share any suggestions in the comments.

We had Leo Forcier at Prime Properties of N. Chelmsford do the built-in bookcases in our loft and along the upstairs hallway.  We were quite satisfied with his work on the bookcases but that was several years ago and I don’t know who he’s using for a crew these days.  Our bookcases are plywood with nice trim pieces covering the edges; very practical but not particularly showy.  There are some photos in this old post.

Freight Elevator

If anyone’s noticed the freight elevator having issues, here’s the word from the management:

The last week or so the freight elevator had several different problems. 1) the electric circuit breaker was replaced, 2) the door contacts on the first floor were replaced, 3) the microprocessor had to be re-programmed because it lost its memory – for the first time ever. Everything seems to be well again.