Feature Articles

STURBRIDGE, MA, JUNE 1, 2018: More than 130 local residents, parents and community members attended Woman in Business’ (WIB) annual fundraiser at the Sturbridge Host Hotel on May 23.

Each spring, WIB holds an event to support its scholarship fund, which offers three to four scholarships each June to area graduating students pursuing their career and education after high school.

Over the last 27 years, WIB has given... Read More

Jason Poquette,
BPharm, R.Ph

It was Ben Franklin who quipped that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Thanks to advances in medical science, prevention can now be measured in milligrams rather than ounces. This is the case with a newly approved medication to prevent migraine headaches, a 70mg once-monthly injection which patients can administer themselves.

Millions of migraine s... Read More

By Magda Dakin

Michigan native Kim Norton came to the area 13 years ago with a friend, her daughter, and a dream to eventually own her own beauty salon. It’s been a few years in the making and after the arrival of a son, but Kim has made her dream a reality: her shop, Hair’s To You, is now open at the former site of Tony’s Barber Shop at 299 Providence Road in South Grafton.

She and her helper Brad have been redecor... Read More

Local businesses team-up to provide “Wizards and Knights: Bully Prevention Program” on June 1 at the Boys & Girls Club of Webster-Dudley, starring world- class ventriloquist Lesley Smith and her side-kick, family favorite Sammy Snail.

The Boys & Girls Club has been awarded a grant from the Dudley Cultural Council to bring Smith and her stage show to teach bully prevention to Club members on Club Member Appreciation... Read More

By Rod Lee

If native son General Rufus Putnam (1738-1824) were alive today, he would appreciate the effort leadership of the Sutton Historical Society has put into the organization’s latest membership drive.

“We surpassed last year,” Christine Watkins, the Society’s secretary, said in late April. “We had a goal of at least one hundred new members.”

The push to bolster the ranks did not end in February; it wil... Read More

Looking for a special experience and fun memories with your children or grandchildren?

Then please join us on Saturday, June 16 from 8 AM-Noon for the wholesome outdoor fun of the Blackstone Valley Fishing Derby for youth, ages 3-15 at the historic, scenic Hopedale Pond Boat Launch, Hopedale.

There are prizes galore, including 1st and 2nd place trophies in 5 categories: trout, perch, bluegill, pickerel and bass. Bri... Read More

By Rod Lee

No four people are more aware of how long the Millbury Lions Club has been in existence than Stuart D. Mulhane, Stephen V. Walinsky, E. Bernard Plante and Joseph F. Coggans Jr.

Or how much the club has given back to the community in its “service to humanity.”

Of all the names that have surfaced as “King Lion,” fellow officers, tail twisters and lion tamers over the years, theirs are the ones that h... Read More

by Christine Galeone

If people asked you to tell them about your treasures, what would you say? You might start by telling them about your faith, family, community and education. After, you might mention the objects you own that either make your life better or make you smile.

In North Grafton, there’s a shop that’s managed to sell the latter to serve the former. It’s the appropriately named Treasures... Read More