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Augustus Gloop, bank president
By Marc Levy
Published: August 15, 2011
You’d think those banks and credit unions would stop racing toward foreclosures like one of the demented brats from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” fatally eager, nakedly selfish and simply too clumsy for their own good.
East Boston Savings Bank plans Porter Square branch
By Marc Levy
Published: August 11, 2011
A long-empty storefront outside Porter Square is set to become a branch of East Boston Savings Bank.
Bank awards scholarships to CRLS seniors
By Marc Levy
Published: August 9, 2011
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School seniors Arjun Agarwala and Ashley Vincent have won scholarships from Cambridge Savings Bank’s charitable foundation as well as offers of summer jobs at the bank.
New developer holds mortgage on troubled Cambridge Crossing
By Marc Levy
Published: May 24, 2011
The auction of a stalled North Cambridge development is scheduled for Thursday, but it’s no longer a bank dealing with bankrupt real estate magnate Joseph Perroncello — now it’s another developer.
Sheriff’s sergeant faces drug charge; ATM scam stopped
By Marc Levy
Published: May 3, 2011
A sergeant working in the mostly empty jail building in East Cambridge has been arraigned Tuesday on cocaine-trafficking charges, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said.
Developer, bank reach agreement
By Marc Levy
Published: March 22, 2011
The developer of 63 apartments in North Cambridge seems to have made peace with Webster Bank, with the sides filing an agreement for him to pay more than $9 million or stop fighting a May 25 foreclosure sale.
Big, bad banks
By Marc Levy
Published: January 31, 2011
I barely had time to be a customer of BayBank before it merged with Bank of Boston and became BankBoston. Only three years later it was bought by Fleet Bank and became FleetBoston. Six years later it was consumed by Bank of America.
Nice shot: Wainwright isn’t branching out
By Marc Levy
Published: September 29, 2010
Wainwright Bank hasn’t changed its advertising much in the past six years. It’s still funny in ways the friendly institution probably doesn’t intend.
Auction of North Cambridge development delayed for nearly two months
By Marc Levy
Published: September 13, 2010
The auction of a troubled residential development in North Cambridge is being delayed by almost two months, according to auctioneers Daniel J. Flynn & Co. Inc.
Neighbors fear trick by developer at foreclosure auction
By Marc Levy
Published: September 8, 2010
A troubled residential development on Rindge Avenue is going on the auction block Sept. 15, but neighbors and North Cambridge watchdogs — who have been complaining about the site for about six years — fear it is a trick that will return the property to the developer prompting all the complaints.