Neighbors who make the Wachusett region feel like home
Profiles of the coaches, cooks and volunteers behind our strongest institutions.

Every town has them: the people who show up early, stay late and never ask for credit.
This month the Beacon highlights a handful of them — a youth coach entering his twentieth season, a pantry cook who feeds two hundred neighbors a week, and the volunteers who keep the town's oldest hall standing.
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