A prior post discussed the importance of taking medication as prescribed, focusing on medications that were intended to prevent things like strokes, heart attacks and fractured hips. There is another side to the coin. Doctors are increasingly aware of the problem of “polypharmacy,” taking a lot of pills. Almost 60% of all Americans […] Read more »
Election time is upon us in the Tri-Town area, and nomination papers are out. So far it appears there has been no great stampede to run for office. But there is still time. My first foray into public office was on an appointed committee. I was recruited to join a local Bylaw Study […] Read more »
Kathleen Costello, 51 North Street, has pulled nomination papers indicating a potential run against Jodi Bauer for the latter’s Mattapoisett Select Board seat. Bauer had already returned her papers, confirming a bid for re-election. The Mattapoisett School Committee terms of Jim Muse and Tiffini Reedy are up this year. Neither had pulled nomination […] Read more »
Owen Excellent’s favorite entry in the Grades 7-12 Creative Expression Contest held by Tri-Town Against Racism is a colorful poster of Martin Luther King Jr. by Dylan Dubois, a junior at Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School. The composition features King’s image on the right looking ahead with the Washington Monument at the […] Read more »
Most readers of these columns, I assume, are aware of the relation between elevated cholesterol and coronary heart disease, and of the benefit of reducing high cholesterol with diet and medication. The statins have saved many lives, and newer agents have come to market for those who cannot take statins. I do hope […] Read more »
How many times do I have to write about this, people? This is the third column I have devoted to the now infamous Mattapoisett “Big Dig” or, as one wag has called it, the deforestation of paradise. I am of course referring to the proposed cutting down of multiple trees as part of […] Read more »
According to Marion Town records, Diane Lopes Flaherty, 1001 Point Road, has taken out nomination papers to run for the Select Board. Incumbent Randy Parker, 735 Mill Street, is up for reelection this year. Parker has already returned his nomination papers, making his reelection bid official. Flaherty, according to Town Clerk Lissa Magauran’s […] Read more »
“Boom!” the semisonic sound filled the Travis Roy Rink at Tabor Academy, not from the slapshot fired by the Bishop Stang player but when the sizzling puck was kicked away by goaltender Tucker Roy. His snow-white goalie pads are only a few weeks old but already bear the black scuff marks of many […] Read more »
Those of you in the metro Boston news market have been regaled with the saga of the failing Steward Health Care System, owner of nine hospitals in eastern Massachusetts. One eye-catching story described the $40,000,000 yacht purchased by Steward’s CEO, Dr. Ralph de la Torre, while Steward hospitals were having equipment repossessed because of failure […] Read more »
Every day after school outside a Takoma Park, Maryland, elementary school, there is a line of kids lined up waiting to use the pay phone. Yes, a pay phone! The phone plays bird calls and it’s free. It even has a canary yellow receiver. In 2016, the town announced a contest to create an […] Read more »