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Two health centers in the Worcester public schools, at Worcester East Middle School and Norrback Avenue Elementary School, were closed for the entire school year. Four others — at Doherty Memorial High School, North High School, Burncoat Middle/High School and Worcester Technical High School — were closed for portions of the past school year.
“We really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Jason Jungwirth recently helped lift 50 cases of beer from a delivery truck at the family’s liquor store in Oshkosh.
It was all in a day’s work for the 38-year-old Jungwith, who is the third generation of Jungwirths to operate the family owned business — Jordy’s Beverage Mart — at the corner of West Ninth Avenue [...]

Only a third of family-owned businesses make it to the second generation. Some local entrepreneurs have taken steps to make sure their families — and their businesses — survive and thrive.
When Christopher Schneeman graduated from college, he was determined not to follow his father and grandfather into the family business of selling property and casualty [...]

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 [...]

City of Greater Sudbury officials were understandably enthused Monday to herald the arrival of five new family physicians to the community.
With at least 30,000 residents without a family doctor these days, there is a shortage of about two-dozen physicians in the city. So the five recruits unveiled Monday represent “a significant development,” Mayor John Rodriguez [...]

Broadcaster Dermot Murnaghan explains why Dingle Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, makes for perfect family holidays.
I love the west of Ireland, and Co Kerry in particular, which my family and I have been visiting every summer now for a few years and all think is absolutely idyllic.
What makes it so special? For a [...]

Walking holidays with the family often mean that parents are constantly pestered with questions of “Are we nearly there yet?” – by frowning children who find hiking anything but cool. Not so in Carinthia. Here we make sure that walking is fun for the whole family.
The W?rthersee, Carinthia’s most famous swimming lake, holds another attraction [...]