About Town with Mark Snyder

ABOUT TOWN: Getting Started on Your New Year's Resolution (And New PT Group at the Stoughton Y)

Welcome to "About Town with Mark Snyder," a column that will keep you up to the minute with what's what, who's who and what's going on around town. If you see or hear something we could use here, let us know by sending an e-mail to pmpco@aol.com.

NEW PT GROUP AT Y: The New England Sinai Hospital & Rehabilitation Center, under new ownership, has left the Old Colony YMCA in Stoughton.  In a seamless replacement for Physical Therapy availability locally, Bay State Physical Therapy is now working alongside the YMCA's team of health and wellness staff to provide care and transitions for members. Offering exceptional, innovative rehabilitation services, Bay State Physical Therapy’s dedicated professionals strive to restore each individual's maximal function with integrity and compassion.  Barbara Kasa is the Clinic Director and a Physical Therapist there. Barbara's clinical experiences have consisted of orthopedic, sub-acute and pediatric settings with a strong interest in sports …

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Stoughton's West Elementary School was Wild About Reading in 2012

West School students participated in an incentive based reading program in 2012, earning the school a special visit from Red Sox mascot Wally the Green Monster.

Not all New Year's resolutions are broken; just ask the students at the West Elementary School in Stoughton.  At an assembly in January, after returning from winter vacation, a new reading initiative was unveiled and students and staff made a resolution to read more in 2012. And for keeping this resolution, students were treated with a special visit from Wally the Green Monster, the famed Red Sox mascot, on May 24.  Wally came to the West School gym and read "Hello, Wally!" written by for former Red Sox player and NESN commentator Jerry Remy. He also helped to lead a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." Wally and the Red Sox donated five books to the West School library. Each student also received a bookmark. At the time of Wally's …

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