FITCHBURG — The Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) approved the funds required to transform Wallace Tower into a modern, aging-in-place community so its residents can live longer and live better. The announcement came last month by the Fitchburg Housing Authority (FHA) during an event that drew an overflowing crowd of tenants, local […]
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Summer cookout with ‘Jumpin Juba’ at Senior Center
PEPPERELL — On a hot summer afternoon over 125 senior friends at the Albert Harris/Pepperell Senior Center were treated to a delicious cookout luncheon sponsored by the Rotary Club of Groton and Pepperell. Everyone was delighted to tap their feet to the live music of folk trio “Jumpin’ Juba.” The concert was funded by a […]
Community Calendar
Friday, August 9 Adult Hula Hooping: 10 a.m.; Townsend Public Library, 12 Dudley Road. Bring your hoop and enjoy a morning of exercise. Register at townsendlibrary.org. Parent & Me Yoga: 10:15 a.m.; Thayer Memorial Library, 717 Main St., Lancaster. Explore yoga and movement through poses, songs, and a story. Led by Valerie Kacian. 978-368-8928. Preschool STEAM Story […]
Warren, Markey push private equity firm Apollo to ‘act quickly’ in sales of Steward hospitals
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey are fixing on a new target in the Steward Health bankruptcy crisis, pushing affiliated private equity giant Apollo Global Management as the key “fulcrum economic stakeholder” in desperate efforts to sell the remaining Massachusetts hospitals.
Gov. Maura Healey floats federal investigation into Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre
Gov. Maura Healey said she hopes federal investigators “come after” Ralph de la Torre, the embattled Steward Health Care executive who was reportedly spotted at the Olympic Games in France as his company announced two hospitals in Massachusetts were slated to close.
As 5-day overflow shelter limit pushes families out, advocates make final effort to stop policy
Critics of a policy limiting local and migrant families’ stays in state-run overflow shelters to five business days pressed Gov. Maura Healey Thursday to pause or rescind the rule one day before the first batch of people were required to exit their temporary housing.
