10 quick tips for updating your kitchen or bathroom
Kitchens and baths are the two areas of a house that can have the most impact on resale value. Why? These rooms are used often and typically cost the most to update. How do you stage your...Read More »
MASSACHUSETTS SELLING SUCCESS STORY:
‘Full speed ahead’
When Marcia Zubretsky arrived at Linden Ponds earlier this year, she dedicated some time to unpacking; but she spent most of her initial weeks immersed in her favorite...Read More »
22 December 2009
There are plenty of opportunities to keep up a fast pace at Brooksby Village, but in the latest offering at the community’s fitness center, life quiets down and bodies become stronger.
“It’s a beautiful thing to slow down...
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16 December 2009
The recent Arts and Crafts Fair at Brooksby Village attracted nearly 500 people to tables of handmade creations, including knitted clothing, paintings, photographs, and jewelry. The 27 vendors gave a portion or all of their proceeds to...
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Snow doesn’t slow Linden Ponds down
Wintertime doesn’t slow activity at Linden Ponds, where residents have dozens of options, both at home and beyond. From trips to the movies and live theater productions to afternoon teas, museums, and overnight excursions, entertainment is never far. Those trips usually begin as ideas passed from community members to Rose Duggan, who lives at Linden Ponds...Read More »
Scratching post
Sitting around a large table at Linden Ponds’ Acorn Pub, the ladies talk and laugh like any group of friends with similar interests. Meanwhile, what originally brought them together is roaming around—or sleeping—back in their respective apartment homes. “It’s nice to know there are not just your two cats,” says Mechthild Churchill, a member of the...Read More »
Brooksby goes back to high school
Dismissal bells, locker combinations, and the Pledge of Allegiance set the tone as the sold-out audience became immersed in the rocky world of first crushes, grueling tests, and unforgiving peers. A safe distance from high school in both time and space, Brooksby Village embraced the institution for this year’s Theatre at the Pond performance, Is...Read More »
Snow doesn’t slow Linden Ponds down
Wintertime doesn’t slow activity at Linden Ponds, where residents have dozens of options, both at home and beyond. From trips to the movies and live theater productions to afternoon teas, museums, and overnight excursions, entertainment is never far. Those trips usually begin as ideas passed from community members to Rose Duggan, who lives at Linden Ponds...Read More »
A home for two
Barbara Sullivan knew she would be leaving some things behind when she sold her Wilmington, Mass., home, but one was not negotiable: her ten-year-old Lhasa apso, Suzie. Luckily, she found Brooksby Village, a community where on any given day, the sidewalks are traversed by both people and their pets. Sullivan has now joined those ranks, as she...Read More »
Torah unites faiths
Music, dancing, and the sacred scroll of the Torah encircled community members as Brooksby Village celebrated its first Simchat Torah this fall. During the event, which marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings, Brooksby’s Jewish community had more to celebrate than the holiday itself. Nine years after forming, the group had acquired a...Read More »
Nautically minded
Hugh Ware spends his time physically on land at Brooksby Village, but mentally, he’s in tune with the seas. “I’m nautically minded. I swear my blood pressure goes up and down with the tides,” Ware says. As president of the Tugboat Enthusiasts Society of the Americas and editor-in-chief of its quarterly journal, Tugbitts, he has to...Read More »
Brooksby panel takes on health care—live
While millions tuned in to watch President Barack Obama address Congress on the matter of health care reform this fall, many were also watching a related discussion at Brooksby Village. A panel of ten people who live at Brooksby was featured on a live broadcast of the New England Cable News Network (NECN) following the President’s address....Read More »
