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It’s good to be WISE

Assumption University WISE program engages lifelong learners during pandemic and beyond   By Jane Keller Gordon Worcester - Art history, bird watching, and immunology are three of...
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Hetty Friedman: Weaving as a Way of Life

By Peg Lopata, Contributing Writer Newton - Being downsized does not necessarily have to mean being downgraded. For Hetty Friedman, 68, leaving her thirty-year corporate...
Marvin Hagler hits fellow boxer Tony Sibson during a fight at the DCU Center in Worcester in 1983. Photo/Alamy

In Brockton, boxing legacies run deep, loss of Hagler stings

By Dakota Antelman, Contributing Writer Brockton – Joe Angelo remembers barnstorming around the country, following hometown hero Marvin Hagler through an iconic and unrivalled career...

League of Women Voters member challenges climate change

By Jane Keller Gordon, Assistant Editor Carlisle resident Launa Zimmaro walks the talk. She and her husband Richard Kane both drive electric vehicles, compost, and...

Massachusetts is the perfect home for Gregory Maguire, author of “Wicked”

By Jane Keller Gordon, Assistant Editor Twenty-five years ago, "Wicked" exploded into our consciousness. Gregory Maguire's bestselling book—and its spinoff blockbuster musical—helped us see the...
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Explore Historic New England’s website

By Jane Keller Gordon, Assistant Editor  Region - For more than a century, Historic New England — founded in 1910 as the Society for the...

Living a life of purpose through dance

Susanne Liebich By Peg Lopata, Contributing Writer Concord - Susanne Liebich took her first dance class when she was only two years old.  After all, what...

Helping Worcester’s Assumption University’s students focus on success 

Conway Campbell Ed.D.   By Jane Keller Gordon, Assistant Editor    Conway Campbell Ed.D. knows the value of education. Immigrating here from Jamaica when he was 14, he...