Bob Holmes

2 weeks ago | homenewshere.com | Bob Holmes

READING – Karen Pinette brought champagne to the Pleasant Street Center. Nora Bucko brought candy. Karen Janowski brought a reminder that the group she chairs had much to contribute. In their first meeting since the May 13 vote in support of building a new Reading Center For Active Living, the Council on Aging (COA) made it clear that they intend to be involved in every step of the process going forward. The mood may have been celebratory, but it also reflected how much work lies ahead.

3 weeks ago | homenewshere.com | Bob Holmes

READING – He’s 94 years old with signs of cutting back but don’t think for a minute Bill Brown has lost an ounce of energy when it comes to Memorial Day and recognizing the town’s veterans. It was the last week of April and the caller ID said it was Bill Brown. It could have been to talk about the town budget, the Select Board, or even life at his new home on Pearl Street. But with Memorial Day rapidly approaching, the subject was the town’s Flower Fund.

1 month ago | homenewshere.com | Bob Holmes

READING – It’s a scenario that Nancy Ziemlak understands could play out. On May 13, the parents of Reading’s roughly 4,000 school children will flock to the RMHS Fieldhouse, likely in overwhelming support of the $130 million Killam School project. As the lawn signs suggest, they’ll vote yes for Killam. It’s what happens next that concerns Ziemlak, the chair of the Council on Aging.

1 month ago | homenewshere.com | Bob Holmes

READING – It’s a scenario that Nancy Ziemlak understands could play out. On May 13, the parents of Reading’s roughly 4,000 school children will flock to the RMHS Fieldhouse, likely in overwhelming support of the $130 million Killam School project. As the lawn signs suggest, they’ll vote yes for Killam. It’s what happens next that concerns Ziemlak, the chair of the Council on Aging.

1 month ago | sapiens.org | Bob Holmes

This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽LISTEN CAREFULLY TO a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—“mm-hmm,” “um,” “huh?,” and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the conversation itself.