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By MAX BOWEN

An audit of the Center for Health Information and Analysis [CHIA] has shown that the state agency did not adequately monitor the financial conditions of acute care hospitals and health systems, according to the office of State Auditor Diana...

By Mike RocheThis past weekend provided an opportunity to cook some wild game. For a number of years, my daughter Jen has organized what was at first called a “Second Thanksgiving.” She invites her friends to our house to enjoy a second Thanksgiving...

By Mike RocheThis column is being written at the Dream Catcher Lodge in the Village of Deposit, New York, located on the Delaware River. The dogs joined me in the Silverado for the four-hour drive on Monday, and we arrived to join Chris Standish and...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Leisure Woods Estates mobile home park is suing the town’s Mobile Rent Control Board, claiming the monthly lot fee increases approved last month were inadequate in relation to heightened expenses.John Kuzinevich, the attorney representing...

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Heywood Healthcare held a stakeholder meeting Thursday to discuss its future now that it has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a standalone entity, meaning it will remain as an independent health care organization.In...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Residents of the Leisure Woods Estates mobile home park seem satisfied with the increased monthly lot fees approved by the Rent Control Board on Tuesday, saying the forthcoming new figures are fair to them and the park’s owners.The $398...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

ORANGE — A decision on whether Leisure Woods Estates can raise its monthly lot fees by 43% was delayed for a second time Wednesday night, as the Mobile Rent Control Board requested the company’s invoices from this year and last, in an effort to ensure...

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GARDNER – Heywood Healthcare recently received high ratings for its Gardner and Athol hospitals through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).The federal agency recently released the annual Hospital Quality Star Ratings, which evaluates...

By CHRIS LARABEE

ORANGE – A decision on whether Leisure Woods Estates can raise its monthly lot fees by 43% will wait until at least August, as the Mobile Rent Control Board requested additional budget information.Leisure Woods Estates Inc. is petitioning the board to...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The owners of Leisure Woods Estates have proposed raising monthly lot fees by 43% and residents of the town’s only rent-controlled mobile home park worry about the financial strain it could put on them.Glenn Gidley, the principal owner of...

By Mike Roche“Must be a bunch of wing nuts!” was my wife’s comment about the people that this writer was flying to Alabama last week to join at the 2024 American Woodcock Wingbee.She thought that my flying down there was a little wacky, but she does...

GARDNER— Heywood Hospital has received approval from the Department of Mental Health to reopen its inpatient adult mental health unit, effective Jan. 11, according to an announcement from the hospital.The hospital was approved for six of a proposed...

By MAX BOWEN

ATHOL — Katelyn and Tim Nault of Athol started off the new year by welcoming their daughter Eva Lynn into the world.According to information provided by Heywood Hospital of Gardner, Eva Lynn was born at 7:47 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 2, at the hospital’s...

By Mike RocheThis past Tuesday was a day of firsts experienced by this writer while woodcock hunting in Massachusetts. The season for woodcock, a webless migratory bird, opened Monday. Upland bird season—pheasant and ruffed grouse—will start in the...

By Mike RocheThere are spring migratory bird hunting seasons, but they are primarily focused on snow geese, which have become a problem in many states. The snows are growing in number and they are capable of devastating a crop field in a short time....