Hospice choirs comfort the dying with song

Hospice choirs comfort the dying with song

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) – The singers enter single file, taking slow, deliberate steps as they intone a soft melody.

Norman Doelling, an 85-year-old who recently suffered a stroke, is there waiting, an audience of one, eased into a recliner in the home where he's lived for decades in the Boston suburbs.

Baker plans to sit out presidential election
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Baker plans to sit out presidential election

State House News Service

BOSTON – After ruling out casting his ballot for the likely Republican, Democratic and Libertarian presidential tickets, Gov. Charlie Baker made it clear on Tuesday: he does not plan to vote for any presidential candidate.

"I would like to get some credit for the fact that rather than punting on the whole question of who I was going to vote for and saying it's a secret ballot and it's none of your business and all the rest, I just said I'm not going to vote for any of these people," Baker said on Boston Herald Radio.

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