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The laughter was infectious at the Christmas Island fire hall, Wednesday, as about a dozen children ages four to 12 either learned to pronounce new Gaelic words or used the time to brush up on Gaelic language skills learned in previous years.
She said her interest came as a result of a long line of family [...]

Captains of the state’s retirement, health care and education systems round out the top 10 highest paid employees in the 2008 Journal of Salaries, an annual list of all positions created by state statute.
The only other top earner with a salary of more than $200,000 is Dr. Don Williamson, the state health officer. Williamson earns [...]

“This study makes plain what every working parent knows — that providing insurance coverage takes a bigger bite from the family budget every year,” said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a public health research organization based in Princeton, N.J.
Nationwide, the amount employees pay for family coverage increased 30 percent [...]

ALBANY—More lower income families would be eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing depreciation of business assets from income eligibility calculations under legislation passed by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly.
“Programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus have kept hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers healthy by making insurance [...]

South Central Regional Medical Center, Family Health Center and Wesley United Men hosted the event that drew about 100 men in the first 45 minutes of the three-hour event.
Dan Diers, a physical therapist at SCRMC, said the golf swing analysis is a way to assist those with and without medical problems to be able to [...]

‘Health care focused on you,’ is what you’ll find at LilyCare, a new West Fargo-based health care clinic that opened to patients June 2, at 550 13th Ave. E. in the former Dakota-Heartland building. Family practice physician Tracie Mallberg established the private corporation facility that focuses on full-service care for the entire family with emphasis [...]

For many fathers and sons, that personal relationship also blends into their careers. About 80 percent of businesses in the United States are family owned, according to the Center for the Study for Taxation in Washington.
Mixing the parent-child dynamic with a business partnership can be as rewarding as it is challenging. A trust not often [...]

Nick Martinson’s boyhood dream was to be a race car driver.
But after serving in the Marine Corps and experiencing other places, he returned to his family’s Suttons Bay funeral home to represent the business’ fourth generation.
The decision pleased his father, Bob Martinson, who, like Nick, followed his father into the profession.
“There’s a vast difference between [...]

As a 10-year-old boy, Matt Horsfield understood much of what was unfolding around him when his father, Pat, decided to start a construction business.
Now, as an adult and president of his father’s firm, Horsfield Companies, Matt Horsfield said he realizes how substantial his father’s undertaking was.
“Essentially, he gave up everything and sacrificed everything,” he said.
All [...]

Continuing to look at some of the more historical houses in the Town of Newcastle, one is that of Dr. Ferdinand Loreck Pedolin, who was born in Fredericton in 1849 and whose parents had immigrated from Holland. He received his early education in Fredericton and eventually attended Harvard Medical School, where he graduated with a [...]