Barbara Staples News Today

For more than a century, when selectmen here honored the town’s oldest resident, the title came with a distinctive trophy: a gold-topped, ebony walking cane, engraved with the town’s name, that was theirs to keep for as long as they might live.

For over a century, towns in New England have presented their oldest residents with ceremonial canes. In some places, the honor endures — for those willing to accept it, that is.

Barbara Long and Marion L. Cronin, who are not related, were jointly awarded the town’s Boston Post cane, a New England tradition

FRIENDSHIP — The Friendship Select Board presented resident Sylvia Hooper Neal with the Boston Post Cane on Tuesday, Sept. 12, marking her as the oldest living resident in town in

Rare Robert Brough masterpiece to go under the hammer

His last act of public service was to serve on the panel that decided who was to be the new Chairman of the BBC, in late 2020