Features
Retail Store Coming to Plaza
By Nancy Arsenault The Stow Shopping Plaza is experiencing a renaissance of sorts as the third of potentially four new businesses gets ready to open there this summer. Late August will welcome Snap Dragon Party & Gift Store, located between Colonial Spirits and the Red Ginger Restaurant. Owned by Crystal and Michael Giuva and Crystal’s…
Hams to the Rescue
By Ann Needle With high tech just about everywhere, it is tough to imagine life without the magic of the Internet and cell phones. But, take these away, and there are dedicated amateur shortwave radio enthusiasts in Stow and surrounding communities ready to step in and help keep friends and neighbors in touch with what…
Building Bridges Across Generations
By Nancy Arsenault The buzz in the room is louder than anything usually allowed in a classroom. Up and down activity from the seats is welcomed instead of discouraged. What else is different? While the setting is the Center Elementary School, many of these students are 60, 70 and 80 years of age. That’s just…
Jenkins Offers Lyme Warning
By Ann Needle
“I just don’t want anyone to have to go through this,” maintained Frank Jenkins, a long-time Stow resident and recent victim of Lyme Disease. In telling his story of a near-miss diagnosis of Lyme, Jenkins said he wants residents to know just what to do if they suspect Lyme in themselves or family members.
For Jenkins, the retired Stow Postmaster, the classic symptoms of Lyme he experienced earlier this year — fever, chills, weakness — should have been recognizable immediately. However, that was not the case. “My wife had Lyme disease last year, so we know what it looks like,” he said.
Stow Resident Seeks $100K TV Prize
By Nancy Arsenault
Seventy-two hours to find $100,000 hidden in a briefcase – Do it in the jungles of New Zealand, with basically no food or water, with two strangers. The only clues are a series of GPS coordinates that must be reached while undergoing physical challenges that defy anything you have ever known.
This is just what Stow’s Meg Patterson experienced this past November when she was part of the inaugural season of filming for TNT Network’s new adventure reality show, 72 Hours, debuting in June.
Stow Acres is Future Focused… May 29, 2013
By Nancy Arsenault
While the economy has caused ownership changes or turned golf courses into housing developments, Stow Acres Country Club, Stow’s oldest and largest golf course, is still considered one of the premiere public golf facilities in the area.
Boasting two 18-hole courses, North and South, the North course was selected as one of America’s 50 best public courses by Golf Digest in the 1980s and 1990s. The U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship was hosted there in 1995, only the second time ever in New England. From 2003-2006, Stow Acres hosted the Monday qualifier for the PGA’s Deutsche Bank Championship held at the Tournament Players Club Boston and continues to be the site of major tournaments.