Shining Lights of Everyday People

  “Not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love.”—Mother Teresa

By Joanie Allbee

Nancy Prag wears the crown of 2025 Saugus Woman of the Year. Congratulations, Nancy!

Over the years she has made a positive impact on Saugus. Nancy grew up with an eye and ear towards the environment. Nancy and her Mom used to volunteer sprucing up areas.

For more than 20 years and counting, Nancy has been a member of the Saugus Tree Committee, which she currently chairs. She has also been a longtime member of Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment (SAVE). In addition, she’s an active Saugus Garden Club member. Nancy likes to stroll through scenic views, and often she paints the scenes she visits.

Nancy’s career was successful in advertisement and graphic arts. Her favorite color is green and she likes the quote “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” (author Allen Saunders, Reader’s Digest 195).

Nancy and her husband Scott’s daughter, Jenny, is a favorite schoolteacher of many students.

The Prags have two rescue cats: Sunny, three years old, and Jasper, two years old.

Nancy loves tree quotes. They are rooted in wisdom. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in” (from an ancient Greek Proverb).

Nancy is a lady who listens to the intellect of nature.