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Wellesley widow receives Boston Post cane at 105

WELLESLEY – A long, though unofficial, tradition led Wellesley's Boston Post Cane to pass this week to Herlda Senhouse, the town's oldest resident at 105, who joked that her lack of children led to a more stress-free – and longer – life. Senhouse received the gold-knobbed walking stick surrounded

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At 105, newest Cane holder stays young at heart

MARBLEHEAD – Alice McGill Tompkins, a 105-year-old resident of Lafayette Rehabilitation and Nursing Home, was recently presented the historic Boston Post Cane, in recognition of her status as the town's oldest living resident. In November, Marblehead Selectman Jackie Belf-Becker presented Tompkins with the cane and a plaque — a New

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A new voice for the rest of us

For more than one hundred years, from 1856 to 1956, the Boston Post was this city's largest daily newspaper. Founded in 1831 by Boston businessmen Charles G. Greene and Williams Beals, the paper was later sold to Edwin Grozier who, along with his son Richard, built it into

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Boston, the Old and the New

Aug. 3, 2015 During the first month following our "real" or, "big" launch, one of our themes is the relationship between the "new" and the "old"; between traditions and history, on the one hand, and new and exciting ways of living and

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Boston Post cane tradition continues today

In 2001, Brian O' Grady, the Director of the Council on Aging in Williamstown, Mass., was cleaning out a closet in the Senior Center when Hazel Burchick, one of the seniors in town, wondered out loud: 'Whatever happened to the old cane we used to give people?'