Planning for the future can be difficult these days, with so much in question.

Megan Rippie, who graduated from Milton High School this spring, has always been a mentor and support for her brother, who is two years younger and on the autism spectrum.

Eighteen-year-old Carolynn Lafountaine has survived a lot of medical complications in her young life. When she was three, she had open-heart surgery to repair a congenital defect – an event from which she has no lingering effects today.