BEDFORD — Only 35 seconds passed between the sound of the starting horn and moment that the final vehicle crossed the finish line at Pulling for Hope. The contestants, scattered across the parking lot at Pennington Field, almost universally doubled over, cast their eyes to the sky, or dropped to the ground in an attempt to recover…

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There’s an old saying about the difference between being called to something and being equipped for it. We usually assume that a calling follows the equipping and that the equipping is very intentional. Sometimes, though, we find ourselves at the front of something we never thought we’d do. In those instances, hindsight almost always reveals…

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BEDFORD – The air hums with music: the chatter of families mingling with the hard punch of speakers at the end of the block. This quarter mile of residential road, normally devoid of activity no matter the hour, is teeming with life. Children race the length of the closed-off street, leaping into emergency vehicles opened…

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