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Around Cape Ann is a column devoted to events happening on Cape Ann and artists from Cape Ann performing elsewhere. If you ...

Mary Ann Dietschler’s initiative, ‘Wreaths with a Reason,’ has raised $153,000 since its inception in 2014 to help children ...

The first African slaves came to this country in 1609, and Virginia would become the center of bondage. By the 1850’s, eight ...

The community room at St. Paul Lutheran Church in New Rochester was abustle one Wednesday in November as the women’s group ...

Mary Ann Wilson has died aged 87. She was the beloved registered nurse and creator of the gentle public-television exercise programme Sit and Be Fit. Her family confirmed she passed away on November 5 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The host of the Spokane-based exercise show Sit and Be Fit, Mary Ann Wilson, has passed away. She was 87 years old. Mary Ann Wilson founded the show that aired on Spokane's PBS ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Mary Ann Wilson, the registered nurse who created and hosted "Sit and Be Fit" for 37 years, died yesterday, leaving behind a fitness legacy that touched lives across the Inland ...

Mary Ann Wilson, the Spokane founder and face of the television workout program “Sit and Be Fit,” died Wednesday at the age of 87. Filmed at the KSPS-PBS television station on the South Hill near ...

The four children of Mary Ann Wilson, shown in photo, gathered Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 to talk about their mother, the founder and star of the public TV show "SIt and Be Fit" who died recently at age ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Mary Ann Wilson, known for her PBS exercise show Sit and Be Fit, passed away at age 87 on Wednesday. Her daughter, Gretchen Cowan, confirmed that Wilson died at home on Wednesday ...

Lynn and Chris Lindsay opened Loose Thread Studio in Staunton to fill a local need for a fabric store. The shop offers a variety of fabrics, notions, and embroidery supplies, catering to customer ...