A Big Dig titan planted his family in North Reading. Their estate is for sale.

The daughter of Les Marino, founder of Modern Continental, is selling her longtime family home.

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Every May, the pear trees bloom in Ridgeway Estates.

Lelio “Les” Marino planted them himself, lining the streets of the North Reading development he began first carving out of the woods in the late 1970s. May 6 was his birthday, and more than two decades after his death, the trees still mark it…

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