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What Causes Menopause?

The most common reason for menopause is the natural decline in a female's reproductive hormones. However, menopause can also result from the following situations:

Oophorectomy: This surgery, which removes a woman's ovaries, causes immediate menopause. Symptoms and signs of menopause in this situation can be severe, as the hormonal changes happen abruptly.

Chemotherapy: Cancer treatments like chemotherapy can induce menopause quickly, causing symptoms to appear shortly after or even during treatment.

Ovarian Insufficiency: Also called premature ovarian failure, this condition is essentially premature menopause. It happens when a woman's ovaries quit functioning before the age of 40 and can stem from genetic factors and disease. Only 1% of women suffer from premature menopause, but HRT can help protect the heart, brain, and bones.

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Depression

If you're a woman going through menopause and find that you have become increasingly depressed, you're not alone. It's estimated that 15% of women experience depression to some degree while going through menopause. What many women don't know is that depression can start during perimenopause, or the years leading up to menopause.

Depression can be hard to diagnose, especially during perimenopause and menopause. However, if you notice the following signs, it might be time to speak with a physician:

  • Mood Swings
  • Inappropriate Guilt
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Too Much or Too Little Sleep
  • Lack of Interest in Life
  • Overwhelming Feelings

Remember, if you're experiencing depression, you're not weak or broken - you're going through a very regular emotional experience. The good news is that with proper treatment from your doctor, depression isn't a death sentence. And with HRT and anti-aging treatment for women, depression could be the catalyst you need to enjoy a new lease on life.

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Hot Flashes

Hot flashes - they're one of the most well-known symptoms of menopause. Hot flashes are intense, sudden feelings of heat across a woman's upper body. Some last second, while others last minutes, making them incredibly inconvenient and uncomfortable for most women.

Symptoms of hot flashes include:

  • Sudden, Overwhelming Feeling of Heat
  • Anxiety
  • High Heart Rate
  • Headache
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness

Typically, hot flashes are caused by a lack of estrogen. Low estrogen levels negatively affect a woman's hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls body temperature and appetite. Low estrogen levels cause the hypothalamus to incorrectly assume the body is too hot, dilating blood vessels to increase blood flow. Luckily, most women don't have to settle for the uncomfortable feelings that hot flashes cause. HRT treatments for women often stabilize hormones, lessening the effects of hot flashes and menopause in general.

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Mood Swings

Mood swings are common occurrences for most people - quick shifts from happy to angry and back again, triggered by a specific event. And while many people experience mood swings, they are particularly common for women going through menopause. That's because, during menopause, the female's hormones are often imbalanced. Hormone imbalances and mood swings go hand-in-hand, resulting in frequent mood changes and even symptoms like insomnia.

The rate of production of estrogen, a hormone that fluctuates during menopause, largely determines the rate of production the hormone serotonin, which regulates mood, causing mood swings.

Luckily, HRT and anti-aging treatments in New Milford, FL for women work wonders for mood swings by regulating hormone levels like estrogen. With normal hormone levels, women around the world are now learning that they don't have to settle for mood swings during menopause.

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Weight Gain

Staying fit and healthy is hard for anyone living in modern America. However, for women with hormone imbalances during perimenopause or menopause, weight gain is even more serious. Luckily, HRT treatments for women coupled with a physician-led diet can help keep weight in check. But which hormones need to be regulated?

  • Estrogen: During menopause, estrogen levels are depleted. As such, the body must search for other sources of estrogen. Because estrogen is stored in fat, your body believes it should increase fat production during menopause. Estrogen also plays a big part in insulin resistance, which can make it even harder to lose weight and keep it off.
  • Progesterone: Progesterone levels are also depleted during menopause. Progesterone depletion causes bloating and water retention, while loss of testosterone limits the body's ability to burn calories.
  • Ongoing Stress: Stress makes our bodies think that food is hard to come by, putting our bodies in "survival mode". When this happens, cortisol production is altered. When cortisol timing changes, the energy in the bloodstream is diverted toward making fat. With chronic stress, this process repeatedly happens, causing extensive weight gain during menopause.
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Low Libido

Lowered sexual desire - three words most men and women hate to hear. Unfortunately, for many women in perimenopausal and menopausal states, it's just a reality of life. Thankfully, today, HRT and anti-aging treatments New Milford, FL can help women maintain a normal, healthy sex drive. But what causes low libido in women, especially as they get older?

The hormones responsible for low libido in women are progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone.

Progesterone production decreases during perimenopause, causing low sex drive in women. Lower progesterone production can also cause chronic fatigue, weight gain, and other symptoms. On the other hand, lower estrogen levels during menopause lead to vaginal dryness and even vaginal atrophy or loss of muscle tension.

Lastly, testosterone plays a role in lowered libido. And while testosterone is often grouped as a male hormone, it contributes to important health and regulatory functionality in women. A woman's testosterone serves to heighten sexual responses and enhances orgasms. When the ovaries are unable to produce sufficient levels of testosterone, it often results in a lowered sex drive.

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Vaginal Dryness

Often uncomfortable and even painful, vaginal dryness is a serious problem for sexually active women. However, like hair loss in males, vaginal dryness is very common - almost 50% of women suffer from it during menopause.

Getting older is just a part of life, but that doesn't mean you have to settle for the side effects. HRT and anti-aging treatments for women correct vaginal dryness by re-balancing estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. When supplemented with diet and healthy living, your vagina's secretions are normalized, causing discomfort to recede.

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Fibroids

Uterine fibroids - they're perhaps the least-known symptom of menopause and hormone imbalances in women. That's because these growths on the uterus are often symptom-free. Unfortunately, these growths can be cancerous, presenting a danger for women as they age.

Many women will have fibroids at some point. Because they're symptomless, they're usually found during routine doctor exams. Some women only get one or two, while others may have large clusters of fibroids. Because fibroids are usually caused by hormone imbalances, hysterectomies have been used as a solution, forcing women into early menopause.

Advances in HRT and anti-aging medicine for women give females a safer, non-surgical option without having to experience menopause early. At Global Life Rejuvenation, our expert physicians will implement a customized HRT program to stabilize your hormones and reduce the risk of cancerous fibroid growth.

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Endometriosis

Endometriosis symptoms are much like the effects of PMS, and include pelvic pain, fatigue, cramping, and bloating. While doctors aren't entirely sure what causes this painful, uncomfortable condition, most agree that hormones - particularly xenoestrogens - play a factor.

Endometriosis symptoms are much like the effects of PMS and include pelvic pain, fatigue, cramping, and bloating. While doctors aren't entirely sure what causes this painful, uncomfortable condition, most agree that hormones - particularly xenoestrogens - play a factor.

Xenoestrogen is a hormone that is very similar to estrogen. Too much xenoestrogen is thought to stimulate endometrial tissue growth. HRT for women helps balance these hormones and, when used with a custom nutrition program, can provide relief for women across the U.S.

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What is Sermorelin?

Sermorelin is a synthetic hormone peptide, like GHRH, which triggers the release of growth hormones. When used under the care of a qualified physician, Sermorelin can help you lose weight, increase your energy levels, and help you feel much younger.

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Benefits of Sermorelin

Human growth hormone (HGH) therapy has been used for years to treat hormone deficiencies. Unlike HGH, which directly replaces declining human growth hormone levels, Sermorelin addresses the underlying cause of decreased HGH, stimulating the pituitary gland naturally. This approach keeps the mechanisms of growth hormone production active.

  • Benefits of Sermorelin include:
  • Better Immune Function
  • Improved Physical Performance
  • More Growth Hormone Production
  • Less Body Fat
  • Build More Lean Muscle
  • Better Sleep
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What is Ipamorelin?

Ipamorelin helps to release growth hormones in a person's body by mimicking a peptide called ghrelin. Ghrelin is one of three hormones which work together to regulate the growth hormone levels released by the pituitary gland. Because Ipamorelin stimulates the body to produce growth hormone, your body won't stop its natural growth hormone production, which occurs with synthetic HGH.

Ipamorelin causes growth hormone secretion that resembles natural release patterns rather than being constantly elevated from HGH. Because ipamorelin stimulates the natural production of growth hormone, our patients can use this treatment long-term with fewer health risks.

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Benefits of Ipamorelin

One of the biggest benefits of Ipamorelin is that it provides significant short and long-term benefits in age management therapies. Ipamorelin can boost a patient's overall health, wellbeing, and outlook on life.

When there is an increased concentration of growth hormone by the pituitary gland, there are positive benefits to the body. Some benefits include:

  • Powerful Anti-Aging Properties
  • More Muscle Mass
  • Less Unsightly Body Fat
  • Deep, Restful Sleep
  • Increased Athletic Performance
  • More Energy
  • Less Recovery Time for Training Sessions and Injuries
  • Enhanced Overall Wellness and Health
  • No Significant Increase in Cortisol

Your New, Youthful Lease on Life with HRT for Women

Whether you are considering our HRT and anti-aging treatments for women in New Milford, FL, we are here to help. The first step to reclaiming your life begins by contacting Global Life Rejuvenation. Our friendly, knowledgeable HRT experts can help answer your questions and walk you through our procedures. From there, we'll figure out which treatments are right for you. Before you know it, you'll be well on your way to looking and feeling better than you have in years!

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HS baseball: Jacobs and Milko ready to step up for West Milford

WEST MILFORD – While the majority of North Jersey baseball teams were battling the uncharacteristic March weather conditions and rearranging their practice schedule, West Milford had the opportunity to get outdoors and compete in sunny Florida.The Highlanders recently returned from the Sunshine State where they spent three days at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, FL.“It was a great experience and we had the opportunity to practice, play games and work on drills that we norm...

WEST MILFORD – While the majority of North Jersey baseball teams were battling the uncharacteristic March weather conditions and rearranging their practice schedule, West Milford had the opportunity to get outdoors and compete in sunny Florida.

The Highlanders recently returned from the Sunshine State where they spent three days at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, FL.

“It was a great experience and we had the opportunity to practice, play games and work on drills that we normally wouldn’t be able to do back home in the snow,” said veteran coach Joe Jordan, who begins his 10th season at West Milford. “We had the opportunity to see what kind of team we have and got an early evaluation of the players and what we have.”

Coming off an 11-15 campaign in 2017, the Highlanders return a group of players that Jordan believes could challenge to finish above the .500 mark and compete deep into May.

Despite having to replace six starters to graduation, West Milford returns several experienced players, including a junior class that Jordan says is ready to step up.

“I’m comfortable with the group we have back,” said Jordan. “We’ll mix in different players from all three grades, but most have experience and earned a lot of playing time.”

Back in the starting lineup is senior shortstop John Jacobs, who led the Highlanders with a .375 batting average and eight extra base hits last spring. Jacobs, a right-handed pitcher that came in on relief and threw 16 innings total, will be included in the Highlanders' rotation.

“John had a breakout junior year and came up big for us in a few different spots,” said Jordan.

Classmate Bailey Justin is expected to contribute in the outfield.

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The team’s heralded junior class starts with three-year starter and right fielder, Zack Milko, who Jordan says could eventually be moved to center field. A starter since his freshman year, Milko banged out 25 hits as a sophomore and was fourth in hits batting in the two spot. He’ll bat third this season and will be counted on to produce runs.

Junior right-hander Mike Wis is the Highlanders' top pitcher this season and is a utility infielder that Jordan can move around where needed.

“Wis is a smart player and we’re counting on him this year on the mound,” said Jordan. “We’ll move him around the infield as well.”

Junior catcher Aidan McDaniel is back behind the plate for the second-straight year and showed his true ability early last May when he went 13-for-18 at the plate in a two-week stretch that included three Passaic County Tournament games.

Utility player Chris Gomez will bat in the leadoff spot and will use his speed to produce runs. He will move between centerfield and second base and will enter games as a pitcher in a relief role. Gomez hit .300 last spring and had an impressive .500 on-base percentage.

Juniors Joe Hubinger (3B) and Brandon Licursi (1B) complete the infield and both will contribute on the mound. The duo accounted for most of the innings pitched last spring with Hubinger tossing 27 innings and Licursi another 21 IP.

“Both saw a lot of time on the mound last season,” admitted Jordan. “They gained some valuable experience and reps and will be key contributors.”

Junior lefty Jack Vreeland will work into the pitching rotation and is also expected to contribute.

The Highlanders compete in the competitive Big North-Independence Division along with Passaic County rivals Lakeland, Wayne Hills, Wayne Valley, Passaic Valley and Fair Lawn out of Bergen County.

Last year West Milford qualified for the North 1 Group 3 state playoffs as the 15th seed and dropped a 4-2 opening-round contest to No. 2 River Dell.

The team is scheduled to open the season on April 3 at home against division rivals Wayne Valley.

Transit Briefs: Amtrak, MTA Metro-North, Tri-Rail

Amtrak advances crew training for Mobile-to-New Orleans intercity passenger rail service. Also, Connecticut lawmakers eye electrification of MTA Metro-North Railroad’s Danbury Branch; and south Florida’s Tri-Rail commuter railroad saw January ridership grow 30% over the same month last year.Ahead of future service between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La., Amtrak engine...

Amtrak advances crew training for Mobile-to-New Orleans intercity passenger rail service. Also, Connecticut lawmakers eye electrification of MTA Metro-North Railroad’s Danbury Branch; and south Florida’s Tri-Rail commuter railroad saw January ridership grow 30% over the same month last year.

Ahead of future service between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La., Amtrak engineers and conductors will begin required “familiarization” trips to learn the route’s physical characteristics, according to Amtrak. The process of operating Amtrak trains in this area will start during the week of Feb. 5 and continue for several months, in conjunction with host freight railroads CSX and Norfolk Southern (NS), to qualify train crews to begin service on a 2023 date, which has not yet been announced.

To prepare the public for the new service, Amtrak reported that during the same week it will begin an education campaign with its partners—the Southern Rail Commission, host freight railroads, state and local transportation officials, and Gulf Regional Planning Commission—and Operation Lifesaver.

Getting all the railroads and other stakeholders to agree on a service launch has taken years. It was slugfest between Amtrak on one side and CSX, NS and the Port of Mobile on the other, fighting about how much new infrastructure must be built before Amtrak can operate two daily round-trips between the Crescent City and the historic city along the Alabama Gulf Coast, and how much that construction will cost. Railway Age Contributing Editor David Peter Alan covered it extensively, reporting in November 2022 that a settlement agreement had finally been reached. On Dec. 23, 2022, he reported the details, garnered from an application for federal funds to help pay for the $223.04 million project. The parties, he wrote, “have settled their differences and are now working together” to get a grant under the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) 2022 Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement (CRISI) Program that would cover 80% of the costs. According to the grant application, Alan wrote, the project “will be a series of infrastructure improvements in the rail corridor from the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to the Port of Mobile that will support the introduction of intercity passenger rail, where passenger rail service has not operated since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, while maintaining freight service reliability along the Gulf Coast Corridor. …” After mentioning the projected costs, the document went on to say that the money would: “allow for Project Development (including Preliminary Engineering and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review), Final Design, and Construction to lengthen sidings, extend main tracks, install new switches and turnouts, construct additional crossovers, and improve stations, yards, and grade crossings,” according to Alan’s report. “Initiating passenger rail service while maintaining the efficiency of freight service along the Gulf Coast will create pathways toward social equity, disaster resilience, regional productivity, employment accessibility, sociocultural exchange, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the climate-impacted Gulf Coast region” (Id.). Thus, it would serve a number of purposes, Alan reported, some of which were mentioned during the hearings before the Surface Transportation Board (STB).

State Rep. Bill Buckbee (R-New Milford, Conn.) has proposed a bill to study the feasibility of operating diesel and electric trains on MTA Metro North Railroad’s Danbury Branch, which currently uses diesel power, according to a Feb. 5 CT Insider report.

The line, which opened in 1852, runs about 27 miles from Devon, a junction east of Stratford, to downtown Waterbury. The Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) owns the line, and Metro-North operates it, along with the line from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan to New Haven, and branches from Stamford to New Canaan and from Norwalk to Danbury (see map below).

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The next step, said Buckbee, “is transportation committee leadership to discuss what bills they want to move forward with and which bills they think that the committee would like to hear.”

Godfrey told CT Insider that if the study is approved, it could begin by mid-summer.

This isn’t the first time electrification for the branch has been sought. “These lawmakers and others had called for the state to earmark some funding from a 2021 federal transportation package toward electrification of the Danbury line and extending the line to New Milford,” according to CT Insider.

Additionally, in 2013, a state representative and a state senator introduced a bill that would allow the State Bond Commission to issue bonds to fund a Danbury Branch project that would improve performance, increase the number of trains and electrify the line.

South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA), which operates Tri-Rail, reported that the 73.5-mile commuter railroad linking Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach averaged more than 12,000 weekday riders in January 2023, up 30% (or close to 3,000 more daily passengers) from the same month last year. Weekend ridership averaged more than 6,000 for the month, also a 30% increase from January 2022.

According to SFRTA, Tri-Rail exceeded 12,000 riders just weeks after David Dech’s start as Executive Director in August 2022, and reached 13,000 riders several days in January 2023, totaling more than 320,000 for the month—the highest since February 2020.

The agency attributed its success, in part, to the railroad’s connections with the Miami International Airport (pictured above), Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and Palm Beach International Airport, as they are “among the top ridership drivers even during off-season travel months. The Boca Raton Station is also among the top 5 highest ridership stations, offering convenient access to office parks, universities and shopping centers.”

In related developments, Miami Today on Jan. 31 reported that the $70 million project to bring Tri-Rail service to private-sector passenger railroad Brightline’s MiamiCentral Station is slated for completion this fall. It has faced many obstacles. Among them: exposed rebar, platform issues, and negotiations with Brightline and Florida East Coast Railway.

‘We are you, and you are now us’: How a 60-year-old New Milford couple came to adopt a Florida teen

NEW MILFORD — Theresa McSpedon, 60, dabbed tears from her eyes with a balled-up tissue and clutched a manila envelope to her chest as she looked at her son for the first time last week.After nearly four years under her care, 17-year-old James Irish was legally declared McSpedon’s son.“We are you, and you are now us. We love you,” she said Wednesday to Irish, who has been in the foster care system since he was just 10 months old, but has lived with McSpedon and her husband, Scott Haney, in New Milford sin...

NEW MILFORD — Theresa McSpedon, 60, dabbed tears from her eyes with a balled-up tissue and clutched a manila envelope to her chest as she looked at her son for the first time last week.

After nearly four years under her care, 17-year-old James Irish was legally declared McSpedon’s son.

“We are you, and you are now us. We love you,” she said Wednesday to Irish, who has been in the foster care system since he was just 10 months old, but has lived with McSpedon and her husband, Scott Haney, in New Milford since he was 13.

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Haney stood to McSpedon’s left, and their new son stood to her right as each took a turn accepting the terms of adoption in front of a virtual courtroom and judge. Just after 9 a.m., the years of court documents and trips to and from Irish’s home in Fort Myers, Florida, came to an end. The couple finally became first-time parents through their legal adoption of Irish. And after nearly two decades in the foster care system, Irish was finally getting a family.

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“I’m hoping it’ll bring James some real feeling of security in life,” said McSpedon, who works as executive director of New Milford Affordable Housing and director of operations at Education without Walls. “He always has a place to come home to.”

The adoption ceremony, which took place at Education without Walls, the school Irish attends, was a short one. But family and friends logged in to watch the proceedings and cheer them on. In support, Irish’s classmates and friends surprised him by donning T-shirts for the special day that said “family is more than blood.”

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“Hearing those words,” Irish said of the judge’s pronouncement, “it was official rather than just a thought.”

As the ceremony came to a close, McSpedon asked the judge for a moment to speak. She thanked the judge, the case workers, her father, her extended family and friends, and her husband. Lastly, she thanked her son.

“You were asked to fly across the country to live with people you didn’t even know. And you did it. You got on a plane, you had incredible courage to come live with a family after so many years in foster care and so many bad experiences,” she said. “You had the bravery to open your heart to us.”

For Irish, who stayed mostly quiet during the ceremony with his hands pushed deep into the front pocket of his black sweatshirt, the adoption provided a moment of relief.

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“The only way I can describe it is a huge weight lifted off of me,” he said. “Obviously I’ve had [a family] in the past, but it wasn’t much of a family, so I think this experience is good for me. It’s finally finalized. It’s no longer the thought of, like, any day this could end.”

Things just clicked

McSpedon and Haney, who have both lived in New Milford for more than 30 years, were married in Danbury in 2001, but never had any children of their own.

“We got married late in life,” McSpedon said. “It just didn’t happen.”

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But when McSpedon met Irish while visiting her father in Florida in September of 2016, something just clicked.

“It happened probably in under 10 seconds,” she said.

McSpedon’s father, Frank, had decided to become a Guardian ad Litem to young Irish after his wife passed, and brought his daughter along with him one day when he went to pick up Irish from the group home.

McSpedon didn’t go into the visit thinking she’d be meeting her future son. She was just along for the ride, keeping her father company.

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“It wasn’t something I thought was ever going to be in my life, but when I looked at him, and he smiled, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t know what it is, but I just feel a connection to this child,’” she said. “By the end of the weekend, I realized he was going to be ours.”

She didn’t know what their involvement would look like, whether they’d be more of a mentoring relationship, or whether they’d just help him find another family, but she knew she would be connected to Irish.

When McSpedon got home from her trip, she told her husband about Irish. Haney was skeptical at first, but agreed to a visit. After much vetting and interviews with the Florida Department of Children and Families, Irish came to stay with the couple for Christmas.

“When he left, my husband was like, ‘Oh my god, we can’t let this kid go back,’” McSpedon said.

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They started making some calls.

Now, instead of a baby in diapers, McSpedon and Haney would fast-forward to parenting a teenager.

A new family

For McSpedon, the biggest hurdle to motherhood was figuring out how to cook nutritious meals for a teenager. She’s got that down now, but is thankful for support from friends and family who she said helped her “figure that all out.” Another big lesson she learned: no matter how much patience you think you have, as a mother, you need more, she said.

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“It’s like any parent. It doesn’t matter what age they come to you. You just figure it out, you just have to. And you don’t know what it’s going to look like, and you’re scared to death,” she said.

Since his move to Connecticut in 2017, Irish has adjusted well to his new life, McSpedon said. He’s met much of their extended family at their family picnics in New York, and has enjoyed being with the family for their Christmas festivities. Irish just recently got his drivers license and is still getting to know the town’s layout.

“I love it,” said Irish of the New Milford area. “I love the cold, so I’m very happy about that.”

After the Zoom ceremony and festivities, they drove home to officially begin life as a legal family. While things might not change all that much after their years of living together in established routines, in the eyes of the law, they were united.

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Now, when Irish thinks of home, he thinks of the cream-colored house tucked among the trees where McSpedon and Haney live. And he thinks of the faces of his new parents.

Barbara Ann Hanley-Mulholland

Barbara Hanley-Mulholland, 67, of Matunuck, RI became one of Heaven’s angels on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Her beloved husband Hugh and their dog Liberty came for her quietly at their Beach Mansion to take her to Heaven. Barbara went to eternal rest after an illness. She fought it every day with dignity, courage and determination and with the prayer and hope that it would allow medical professionals to help the next person.Born in Montclair, NJ, she was the only daughter of the late Dr. William J. Hanley and Kathryn Sanger Hanley....

Barbara Hanley-Mulholland, 67, of Matunuck, RI became one of Heaven’s angels on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Her beloved husband Hugh and their dog Liberty came for her quietly at their Beach Mansion to take her to Heaven. Barbara went to eternal rest after an illness. She fought it every day with dignity, courage and determination and with the prayer and hope that it would allow medical professionals to help the next person.

Born in Montclair, NJ, she was the only daughter of the late Dr. William J. Hanley and Kathryn Sanger Hanley. Her beloved husband, Hugh Timothy Mulholland predeceased her on January 23, 2015 and her beloved dog, Liberty in 2020. Barbara also leaves behind four loving and adoring brothers and sister-in-laws, Christopher (Roberta) of Joshua Tree, CA, Peter of New Milford, NJ, Jamie of North Venice, FL, and Terry (Sue) of Walpole, MA. Barbara also leaves behind her two sister-in-laws, Patricia Mitchell of Carlsbad, CA and Mary Seccareccia of Suffield, CT and a brother-in-law, Dennis Mulholland of Fruitland Park, FL. She leaves beloved nephews, Craig and Cam Hanley and niece Lauren Ann Hanley as well as her beloved nieces and nephews from the Mulholland family, with special mention to Michaela Johnson (Gil), who was the flower girl in Barbara and Hugh’s wedding, and her brother, Nick Seccareccia (Maia).

As a child, Barbara spent at least one month every summer at the family’s beloved Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island, and time at her grandmother, Randy Sanger’s beach home in Sea Girt, NJ with her family. She graduated from Montclair High School and attended Wheelock College part of Boston University. Barbara moved onto a very successful journey and career in Health Insurance Sales and became skilled and known for her competencies in Direct Sales, Medicare Advantage, Sales and Marketing Leadership, Sales Coaching and Medicare Supplements. She began her career at Delta Dental in East Orange, NJ as an Underwriter. She quickly moved on to become a Territory Account Manager for Delta Dental in New York City where she introduced the Delta Dental plan to the Metropolitan New York and Long Island territories. She then moved to Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey as an Account Executive for their health insurance products for small and large groups. Based on her success, the company created a new role for her as Sales Manager/Marketing Training. In 1996, Barbara became a Medicare Sales Consultant for United Healthcare, Medicare and Retirement. She had an amazing 18 year run with United Healthcare and had incredible professional success. She was the last Sales Consultant standing before the company transitioned to a fully independent contractor sales force. She was consistently the Top Producer for the Medicare Portfolio products, multi-year Pinnacle Award winner, appointed to the National Sales Leadership Council, was a member of the National Sales Training and Development team and the AARP/United Healthcare branding pilot program for the Medicare Advantage team. She was incredibly successful especially in her community meetings as she was able to translate the difficult challenge that can be experienced in selecting Medicare coverages. It was a passion of hers to educate Seniors and only sell them what they truly needed. She described her community meetings and the imparting of the knowledge like “being on a Broadway stage” for her. It was her passion to educate. Since 2014, she was a successful independent agent and continued to receive unsolicited business just based on the fine reputation she had in the industry. She served her community well.

Barbara had a bigger than life personality. She was beautiful inside and outside, tall and always so elegant. Her laugh was something to behold. You were drawn to Barbara. She made you feel you were the most important person. One of Barbara’s greatest gifts was her ability to ask to hear a person’s story. It was an honest and heartfelt interest. She was so in tune to connections in the stories and what brought a person into her life even if it was just a passing acquaintance. Every encounter in life was part of the journey and experience for her. She was always connected spiritually and with the angels. When you became friends with Barbara you had a friend for life. She was our North Star. She shined like a beacon and you were drawn to her and all the good stuff. Her friends and family became your friends and family.

Her greatest accomplishment and blessing in life other than her family was the love story she shared with her husband of over 25 years, Hugh Timothy Mulholland, who tragically predeceased her on January 23, 2015. They met on Block Island in 1986 and it truly was love at first meeting when this big teddy bear of a man put his arm around her. They were and still are the love story you read about in books. They married in an intimate wedding on September 22, 1989 and then on October 8, 1989 celebrated a second wedding in front of family and friends on Block Island. It was a three-day event and people to this day talk about that wedding. They settled in near Matunuck Beach in 1992 in a home that was open and welcoming to all including an annual Memorial Day weekend party that grew bigger and bigger every year. It has been noted that there are marriages that began with a meet up at one of these parties. The home always held a magic and spirit that friends and family always felt the moment you entered the home. They were welcoming hosts but let us not kid ourselves, they were perfectly happy to just be in each other’s presence and spend time alone in what they called the Beach Mansion or go to the Dollar Store with $5 each to buy each other gifts – a cheap date they called it. They truly complemented each other and had such tremendous respect for each other on every level. They were of one heart and mind. They understood and mastered “the good stuff”.

In 2004, Barbara and Hugh (UE) celebrated the addition of their beloved Wheaton Terrier, Liberty. Barbara used to say “you and me and Liberty makes three”. They were devoted to each other. Liberty passed in April 2020 at the age of almost 16. She took care of both Barbara and Hugh her entire life.

In 2018, Barbara purchased the home they had lived in since 1992 and redid it as Hugh and she had always planned to do. She completed the dream. It is a living legacy to the magic, memories and “good stuff” that Barbara, Hugh and Liberty shared with family and friends.

A Celebration of Life for Barbara is being planned and friends and family will be advised.

The family is forever grateful to Barbara’s friends, especially Debbie Malone and Jennifer Malone for the expert hands-on and loving care they provided to Barbara over these past many weeks. They would also like to thank Barbara’s medical team at Dana Farber in Boston, Dr. Clancy, Dr. McCleary, and Kathleen Boyle (PA) as well as Paige her visiting nurse.

The family wishes any donations in Barbara’s name be made to Friends of Dana-Farber, 450 Brookline Ave., SW120, Boston, MA 02215 or online at www.dana-farber.org/friends.

COVID has turned South Florida into a promised land for Orthodox New Yorkers

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA) — When Orthodox Jewish clients approach local real estate agent Sharon Brandt looking for a home in this South Florida area, she tells them to make sure they have spots for their children in school before they buy.When Rabbi Yoni Fein, head of school at the Brauser Maimonides Academy in Hollywood, gets inquiries from prospective parents from out of state, he asks them to make sure they can find a house before enrolling their children.Th...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA) — When Orthodox Jewish clients approach local real estate agent Sharon Brandt looking for a home in this South Florida area, she tells them to make sure they have spots for their children in school before they buy.

When Rabbi Yoni Fein, head of school at the Brauser Maimonides Academy in Hollywood, gets inquiries from prospective parents from out of state, he asks them to make sure they can find a house before enrolling their children.

This Catch-22 of a simultaneous housing shortage and waitlists at area schools is no coincidence: Hollywood may be one of the fastest growing Orthodox Jewish communities in the country.

“It’s very rare that a house comes up,” Brandt said of the housing market here. “The real shortage started in January, February, March of 2021. It’s just been insane.”

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Throughout the pandemic, South Florida’s Orthodox Jewish communities from Miami all the way north to Boca Raton have experienced a major pandemic-driven population boom. And Hollywood, once home to a small Modern Orthodox community with just one Ashkenazi synagogue and one small Jewish day school, is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing Orthodox communities in the country.

While the community has been growing over the past five years or so, the pandemic has proven to be a major driver of growth for South Florida. New and longtime residents of the area say the newfound flexibility of remote work, combined with frustration over COVID restrictions elsewhere, has driven people toward the more freewheeling Florida. That migration is changing Florida’s demographics from a retirement hub for aging Jews to an exciting place to live for young families.

Rabbi Arnie Samlan, chief Jewish education officer at the Jewish Federation of Broward County, called the phenomenon the “Orthodox aliyah to Florida,” using the Hebrew term for moving to Israel.

“That joke about Florida being God’s waiting room? It’s not true anymore,” Samlan said.

While jobs have long been a major factor holding people back from moving to Florida — the state lacks a major hub for jobs in industries like finance and marketing that often attract Orthodox Jews in the New York area — the opportunities for remote work during the pandemic have changed that. Some companies have even moved their entire operations to Florida, bringing their employees and their families.

Max Klein moved with his wife and three children from New Milford, New Jersey, to Hollywood at the end of June following his investment firm’s relocation from New York to Miami. For Klein, the fact that his job was moving made the decision a natural one. But the perks of living in Florida sweetened the deal.

“It’s taxes, it’s more free during COVID, year-round good weather, everything just adds up,” he said.

Leora Cohen hadn’t fully bought into her new Florida lifestyle after moving to Hollywood from Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 2019. But when she saw her friends in New York stuck inside with their kids during the pandemic while her own kids played outside throughout the winter, she realized she could never go back.

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“I miss my family, but I’m never leaving Florida,” Cohen said. She later added: “The joys of summer in New York are our entire life in Florida.”

Even at a time when COVID deaths are at a record high in Florida while mask mandates continue to be rejected, the state’s relaxed approach to containing COVID has proven a draw for some.

“There are definitely a number of political reasons people move here, the lockdowns and the way in which different states might have handled COVID,” said Fein, the principal of Brauser Maimonides Academy. “And they ended up staying. I know a bunch of families who moved here because they didn’t know when COVID was going to be over, so they came here.”

Rabbi Yosef Weinstock of the Young Israel of Hollywood said the size of his synagogue had more than doubled in the past 15 years, but the past 18 months have been a period of unprecedented growth for the community.

“On the books now we’re over 650 families, but that’s just the starting point,” Weinstock said, noting that the synagogue’s membership has grown by more than 60 families since the beginning of the pandemic. He believes there are still 200 families or so who have moved to the area but have yet to join the synagogue.

With housing stock limited in the existing Orthodox neighborhoods, newcomers have been purchasing homes farther out, leading to the creation of satellite synagogues in the new neighborhoods.

In Boca Raton, the local Orthodox synagogue has two new outposts — to the west and the east — to accommodate the communities springing up. The Young Israel of Hollywood has a satellite location in West Hollywood with its own rabbi and recently hired another rabbi at the main location to meet the needs of the growing community.

“There’s a bit of saturation,” Weinstock said of the Emerald Hills neighborhood where the Hollywood Orthodox community had been based since its founding in the 1980s.

One perk of that saturation is the explosion of the kosher dining scene in Hollywood and other parts of South Florida. In Surfside, a small beachside community, several blocks are dominated by upscale kosher restaurants ranging from steakhouses to barbecue to Japanese to Italian. In Hollywood, several large kosher grocery stores offer shelf after shelf of prepared foods and freshly made sushi daily.

Part of the growth in recent years had to do with the popularity of South Florida as a vacation spot among Orthodox Jews, according to Dani Klein, who runs the kosher restaurant site YeahThatsKosher.com. Once large numbers of Orthodox Jews started moving to Florida full time, that created even more demand for top quality kosher restaurants, which in turn draw more people to move there.

“Over the last 10 years or so, we went from having lots of kosher restaurants to lots of good, really top quality restaurants,” Klein said of the kosher food scene in South Florida. “We’ve seen Surfside emerge as the second best corridor of kosher restaurants after probably Crown Heights [in Brooklyn] in the country.”

At Brauser Maimonides Academy, the mass migration to Florida has led to waiting lists in every grade.

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Fein had moved to Hollywood from New Jersey to lead the school in 2017. He has seen dozens of friends follow, turning a favored vacation spot for Orthodox Jews in the New York area into a home.

With the growth of communities across South Florida in recent years, Fein said, newcomers no longer have to sacrifice the amenities they expect, like the many kosher restaurants and grocery stores and high quality Jewish day schools they had in New York.

From a student body of about 450 when Fein started four years ago, Brauser Maimonides now has about 650 students from pre-K to eighth grade — with a waitlist in every grade.

While Florida’s approach to COVID containment may prove to be a short-lived draw for Orthodox families, the economic benefits of the move, particularly when it comes to paying for Jewish day school, are likely to have a longer shelf life.

Fein said Florida’s recently expanded state-funded scholarships for private schools were a “major driver” for families who send their children to Jewish day schools. In May, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill that would allow families earning up to $100,000 to access state-funded school vouchers. (The amount of the scholarships depends on a number of factors, including income and number of children.)

The scholarships, he said, “essentially solve the tuition crisis for a lot of families.”

For families who don’t qualify for the state-funded scholarships, the fact that Florida has no state income tax can spell a very different bottom line for families coming from high-tax states like California, New York and New Jersey.

Allan Jacob, chairman of Teach FL, the Orthodox Union’s school-choice advocacy organization, and a member of DeSantis’ transition team, wrote an opinion piece recently for The Wall Street Journal touting Florida’s benefits for day school parents.

“Beyond school choice, Jewish families who are moving like the idea of living in a state with no income tax and a government with a lighter touch,” Jacob wrote.

Even with the widespread expansion, several longtime residents said the larger community has maintained the feel of a smaller one — something that many craved during the pandemic when so many felt isolated from friends and family.

“There’s a very palpable warmth, not just the temperature, in our community,” Weinstock said. “It’s very family oriented.”

Fein said “you kind of have the best of both worlds.”

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“You have a large infrastructure, kosher restaurants, choices of schools and shuls, a lot of friends in the area, but it’s also more affordable to buy a home,” he said. “I couldn’t afford a home in New York and New Jersey. Here I was able to buy my first home.”

Samlan, who moved to Miami eight years ago and recently moved to Hollywood, is renting an apartment while he waits for the right house to come up. He understands the appeal to his fellow Orthodox Jews coming from out of state.

“If you enjoy coming here for Pesach and Sukkot,” he said, “why not work here remotely?”

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