The Holliston woman who helped found the Greater Boston Tea Party and served as the group’s first president will step down next month following the recent election of Christine Morabito as the group’s new leader. Holliston resident Christen Varley helped Morabito and others start the organization in 2009, but has moved to Ohio to be near family and work on a book about the Tea Party, she said yesterday.  “Christine and I are both founders, actually, of the organization,” Varley said. In January Morabito, a nurse from Haverhill, will begin a two-year term as president and spokesperson Continue reading >>>

A Florida-based real estate investment trust has purchased Old Connecticut Path Marketplace in Framingham for $23.2 million.Equity One Inc., which trades on the New York Stock Exchange as EQY, purchased the 80,198-square-foot center from Newton-based National Development Associates of New England, according to the Southern Middlesex Country Registry of Deeds. Equity One made the purchase in partnership with the New York Common Retirement Fund, a public pension plan with more than 1 million members.The shopping center, which is located just off the Massachusetts Turnpike, is anchored by a Stop Continue reading >>>

Five Weston residents have been appointed to boards serving Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Michael F. Cronin has been named to the Board of Directors. Since 1991, Cronin has been the co-founder and managing partner of Weston Presidio. He was the managing director of the Security Pacific Venture Capital Group from 1979 to 1991, and was assistant to the president of California Investment Counsel from 1977 to 1979. Cronin is currently a director of IPCapital Group, Harvard Student Agencies, Harvard Club of Boston, International Technology Group, The Loeb Classical Library, Party Continue reading >>>

Every day, The MetroWest Daily News prints items you will not find at www.metrowestdailynews.com. In today's print edition, today's "Person of Distinction" is Kenneth Rendell, founder of the Museum of World War II in Natick; "Find-a-Pet" introduces you to Orville, a cat available for adoption at Pet World in Natick; sports columnist John Vincent writes about Framingham State University football coach Thomas Kelley, who was named New England Coach of the Year by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston; this week's Continue reading >>>

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From the Globe’s health care blog. The Massachusetts Nurses Association and its parent union staged a protest in New York Tuesday afternoon, near the headquarters of the Steward Health Care system parent company Cerberus. The demonstration was meant to draw attention to what the union says are profit-driven decisions that compromise patient care. Union spokesman David Schildmeier said that the group had 108 people en route to the city from Greater Boston, and he expected about 150 more to show up there, including members of the national union and some Occupy Continue reading >>>

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The family was flown, all expenses paid, to Atlanta in September for the two-day taping with host Steve Harvey, whom Yeo said was “a riot.’’ They lasted three games, which aired last month. Looking back, Yeo said she was most surprised at the “rock star’’ treatment they received. She wishes she had answered some questions differently, but she wouldn’t trade the experience - or her portion of the winnings, with which she has paid bills and purchased holiday gifts. “If you can get five people in your family to do it, you should,’’ said Yeo, lamenting the rule that contestants Continue reading >>>

It didn’t take long for the Hingham Harborwomen to show they will be a force again this season. Hingham beat St. Mary’s, 3-1, Wednesday in a rematch of last year’s dramatic Division 1 quarterfinal in which the Harborwomen ended the Spartans’ 100-game unbeaten streak. Despite graduating their veteran leaders along with goaltender Beth Findley (20 saves in the tournament win over St. Mary’s), the defending Division 1 state champion Harborwomen are recharging. Their top line of juniors Sarah Schwenzfeier and Jane Freda, and sophomore Catherine Linehan Continue reading >>>

A convicted murderer who had been working in a jail-avoidance program for veterans lied about his military experience during his trial, court records show. Charles C. Delaney III was convicted of second-degree murder in 1989 for strangling his ex-wife and burying her in a hole he had dug two days earlier behind his Plymouth home. He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Delaney, who was paroled from prison around 2004, had been working with a federally funded program called Mission Direct Vet, which gives veterans who commit crimes an alternative to jail. The program Continue reading >>>