Newburyport: Former Newburyport Mayor George Lawler tells Russell Ragland, senior vice president and CFO of Health Services for Kindred Healthcare, which owns Country Rehabilitation Center, about his stay at the facility's new Sub-acute Transitional Care Unit in a model room before a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday. In back, left, is Olga MacFarland, president of the Friends of the Council on Aging, and Deborah Szczygiel, executive director of Port Rehab. Bryan Eaton/Staff Photo

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