FRYEBURG, Maine — Buckets of positive intergenerational things are literally happening in the Mount Washington Valley and surrounding towns under the auspices of the recently launched MWV Age-Friendly initiative.
With New Hampshire second only to Maine as oldest state in the U.S., by residents’ median age, and Carroll County the oldest county in the Granite State (with a median age of 46), the demographics cried out for a local collaborative.
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