Guest columnists Shannon D. Gurek and Marcella Runell Hall: Mount Holyoke College set to open to public again, with limits
Students walk to and from the Mount Holyoke College Blanchard Campus Center on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. Gazette file photo
Mount Holyoke College will reopen its outdoor grounds to the community on Saturday.
Lifting this restriction aligns with Gov. Charlie Baker’s new guidance on COVID-19. It is yet another indication of the progress that has been made in countering a pandemic that has taken so many lives and wreaked such havoc locally, nationally and internationally.
Naturally, in accordance with state and federal guidelines and recommended practices, we will move cautiously forward toward attaining pre-pandemic levels of openness. For this reason, there will be some limits on the reopening of our campus grounds: