Retirement Home

Officials say a moose burst through the dining room window of a retirement home in southwestern Sweden, knocking over furniture and flower pots before taking off into the wild again. Police say aside from the moose, who was scratched by the broken window, no one was injured in Thursday’s surprise visit at the Brunnsgarden retirement home in the small town of Alingsas. Helen Gillquist, head of the home, said residents had just finished lunch and left the ground-floor dining room when the moose jumped through the three-paneled glass window.

INDIANAPOLIS - As the toughest primary battle in his almost four-decade Senate career neared its end, Republican Richard Lugar tossed darts at a wooden board in an Indiana retirement home Monday and left hopeful that the residents would be more impressed by his message than his aim. The first landed on the floor. Another nearly hit a camerawoman standing off to the side. Just two of six hit the mark. It was a poignant reminder of a grueling campaign so fraught with missteps that even some voters who have backed Lugar for 36 years are saying it is time to change direction.

NEW ORLEANS - A construction crane toppled into the lobby of a Louisiana retirement home yesterday but missed patients' rooms and no residents were injured, officials said. One employee was taken to a hospital to be checked for possible injuries as a precaution, a spokesman said. "It was really fortunate," said Charlie Cavell, spokesman for Willis-Knighton Health System, which operates The Oaks in Shreveport. "It didn't hit any patient areas or rooms. " The crane was brought to the site yesterday to replace air conditioning units in the home of 112 residents but had not yet been...

WASHINGTON - Rick Santorum endorsed his one-time bitter rival Mitt Romney in a late-night e-mail to his supporters. Santorum on Monday urged his supporters to join him in working with the presumptive Republican nominee to deny President Obama a second term. In his message, Santorum reminded his supporters of areas where he disagreed with Romney during their slog of a primary. Yet Santorum said that "above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated.

HARTFORD -- Edmund S. Valtman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Hartford Times, has died. He was 90. Mr. Valtman died Wednesday at a retirement home in Bloomfield, the retirement home said. His drawings spanned four decades, and his targets ranged from local politicians to presidents to international leaders. Mr. Valtman won the Pulitzer in 1962 for a cartoon published Aug. 31, 1961, showing a Fidel Castro look-alike leading a beleaguered, shackled, and barefoot man named "Cuba.

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany -- Maxi Baier, who at age 15 won the 1936 Olympic pairs figure skating title, died Friday in a retirement home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen after a lingering illness, her daughter said yesterday. . She was 86. Germany's youngest Winter Olympics champion captured the pairs with her future husband, Ernst Baier, at the games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. After the Olympics, the couple won the European and world championships three years in a row before turning professional in 1941.

NEW YORK — Edward H. Harte, a Texas newspaper executive and an ardent conservationist who played an important role in preserving vast tracts of open space and stretches of seashore in his state, died May 18 at a retirement home in Scarborough, Maine. He was 88 and also lived in Corpus Christi, Texas He died of natural causes. Mr. Harte was a son of Houston Harte, a cofounder, with Bernard Hanks, of Harte-Hanks Newspapers, which for many years was a significant player in the Texas newspaper market.

After taking a break for Patriots Day and school vacation week, Lexington's annual Town Meeting will resume Monday in Cary Hall at 7:30 p.m. Since the opening of Town Meeting on March 26, members have addressed most of the articles on the warrant, including the approval of the operating budget of about $152 millionfor next fiscal year. Town Meeting shot down a proposal that would have increased the allowed height of buildings in Lexington Center from 25 to 45 feet, and Special Town Meeting on April 2 approved about $40 million for the construction of a new...

Rosemary Harris and Carla Gugino will star in a production of "The Road to Mecca" on Broadway this winter. The play by Athol Fugard explores the life of an elderly widow who has transformed her home into a shimmering work of art full of sculptures. A pastor and a young teacher battle over whether she should be put in a retirement home. Previews will begin Dec. 16 and opening night will be Jan. 17 at the American Airlines Theatre. It will run until March 4. Fugard's plays include "Master Harold… and the Boys," "The Blood Knot" and "Hello and Goodbye.

LOS ANGELES - Edith Fellows, a child actress who was the subject of a famous 1936 custody case, has died. She was 88. Her daughter, Kathy Fields Lander, told the Los Angeles Times that Ms. Fellows died of natural causes Sunday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home. Ms. Fellows’s mother abandoned her as an infant, and she was raised by her grandmother, who brought her to Hollywood. She made about 50 movies in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, including the 1936 film “Pennies from Heaven.’’ She later turned to the stage and...

> I live in a large, comfortable retirement home. I eat dinner with a few very nice ladies who stack their plates to help the young people who wait on us. These stacks get pretty high, and this in a crowded room. The servers don't object, but I find it out of place. Who is correct? J.K. / Peabody You are — if your friends stack the plates, then the kitchen staff will have to wash both sides. (If you haven't heard that one yet, you must not be at the same large, comfortable retirement home as my dear father-in-law.)

After taking a break for Patriots Day and school vacation week, Lexington's annual Town Meeting will resume Monday in Cary Hall at 7:30 p.m. Since the opening of Town Meeting on March 26, members have addressed most of the articles on the warrant, including the approval of the operating budget of about $152 millionfor next fiscal year. Town Meeting shot down a proposal that would have increased the allowed height of buildings in Lexington Center from 25 to 45 feet, and Special Town Meeting on April 2 approved about $40 million for the construction of a new Estabrook...

The Titanic hit that fatal iceberg on the night he was born, but when Bill Hogan Jr. turns 100 years old April 14, the Lexington resident will be helping celebrate a more joyous centennial anniversary. Born only six days before the Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park in 1912, Hogan has been asked to throw out the first pitch for the game on his birthday. "I'd like to think I'm going to throw it farther than I am," said Hogan, who's been practicing for the first toss.

The annual Town Meeting session will begin tackling a long list of issues this week, including the roughly $161 million budget for next fiscal year, a proposal to increase the allowed height of buildings in Lexington Center from 25 feet to 45 feet, and the purchase of the 15-acre Wright Farm property off Grove Street for conservation or recreational use. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Cary Hall. A citizens petition by Judy Crocker is asking the town to reduce the school bus fees of $550 per student.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - At age 96, Joe Johnson is still first in line when the bloodmobile arrives at his South Carolina retirement home. He's always eager to save lives and keep up the habit he started during his Army career. "I'm sure I've given gallons," said the retired master sergeant. "I don't see any reason to stop. " Johnson, who has lived at the Morningside retirement center in Greenwood for about 10 years, is a regular donor, said Katherine Amerson, executive director at the home.

The League of Women Voters of Lexington will hold a forum Friday to discuss a proposal to convert the Dana Home into an inn and proposed zoning changes for the center of town. The forum will be held at 9:30 a.m. in the community meeting room in Cary Memorial Library. Trisha Kennealy will discuss her proposal to convert the old retirement home at 2027 Massachusetts Ave., as well as the zoning change that it would require. Jerry Michelson, chairman of the town's Lexington Center Committee, and fellow members Howard Levin and Fred Johnson will also be discussing zoning changes proposed for the commercial...

Edith Fellows, a child actress who was the subject of a famous 1936 custody case, has died. She was 88. Her daughter, Kathy Fields Lander, tells the Los Angeles Times that Fellows died of natural causes Sunday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home in Los Angeles. Fellows’ mother abandoned her as an infant, and she was raised by her grandmother, who brought her to Hollywood. She made about 50 movies in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, including the 1936 film “Pennies from Heaven.’’ She later turned to the stage and TV. Fellows was 13 when her mother sued...

WASHINGTON - Many baby boomers say they are likely to stay put in retirement amid a shaky economy. Those who hope to buy a new place are looking for a smaller home somewhere with a better climate that is more affordable and close to family, a new poll finds. The 77- million-strong generation born between 1946 and 1964 is increasingly worried about retirement and their finances in light of the economic crisis of the past three years. Just 9 percent say they are strongly convinced they will be able to live comfortably after they retire, according to the Associated...

NEW ORLEANS - A construction crane toppled into the lobby of a Louisiana retirement home yesterday but missed patients' rooms and no residents were injured, officials said. One employee was taken to a hospital to be checked for possible injuries as a precaution, a spokesman said. "It was really fortunate," said Charlie Cavell, spokesman for Willis-Knighton Health System, which operates The Oaks in Shreveport. "It didn't hit any patient areas or rooms. " The crane was brought to the site yesterday to replace air conditioning units in the home of 112...