This Month's Features

As guests pass through the grand arches into the landscape of the New Fantasyland they are surrounded by a delightful world of fanciful architecture, waterfalls, grottoes, arched bridges, forests and a massive circus big top.

State and local officials gathered last year at the Hudson Senior Center to officially launch Senior SAFE, a grant program to local fire departments statewide that supports fire safety education for older adults. The program is modeled after the school-based Student Awareness of Fire Education (SAFE) for children under 18, which reduced the fire-related deaths within that age group by about 70 percent since its inception 20 years ago.

Bobby Spirio and Dr. Karen M. Patti of Marlboro Animal Hospital with a “client”. Photo/Submitted By Nance Ebert, Contributing Writer Marlborough - Bobby Spirio’s love for...

By Alice Bonner, Ph.D, RN, FAAN Secretary, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs Boston – One of the top questions I get in my travels around...

No battles were fought at Valley Forge. Not a shot was fired at an enemy. Yet the 3,600-acre setting may be the best-known site associated with the Revolutionary War.

Newton - The game of golf continues to be a favorite national pastime despite indications that show a decline in participation and closure of more than 160 golf facilities in the United States from a high of 14,600 in 2006, according to the April 2015 edition of The Economist. But don’t point out negative statistics to one group of over-55 golfers who call Newton Commonwealth Golf Course their home. The Newton Senior Golf League (NSGL) is alive and stronger than ever, said League coordinator Ted Korelitz, with a roster of 55 players who tee off every Tuesday for nine holes, weather permitting, from April through October.

Shrewsbury – After nine years, work on the new Shrewsbury World War 1 monument, located in front of the Beal Early Childhood Center on Maple Avenue, is finally complete.

Beverly Rousseau may not have entered laughing, but it didn’t take long before her non-stop guffaws filled the next hour.

Looking for a job isn’t just a concern for those under 65. Retirees and those past the traditional age for calling it quits increasingly need or want to work.

How can you not love a city where local rogues and scoundrels have streets and bridges named after them? A place that celebrates its oddball residents on a website.