Dean Mazzarella
Columnist
It’s no secret. The vaccine process is far, far from easy or efficient. This country hasn’t faced anything like this pandemic in more than 100 years. No one person is to blame and no one person can fix it. There are country-wide distribution problems and production has to get ramped up for us to succeed.
As the mayor of Leominster, one of my jobs is to do everything I can to bring the resources we need to our residents. In this case, it’s protecting people’s health and working toward returning the city back to normal, or at least a new normal. When the vaccine got approved late last year, we immediately called the Hull Group, who owns The Mall at Whitney Field, to ask if we could use a space to start vaccinating our police and fire departments. They were happy to do it. The space worked perfectly and allows for potential expansion as our vaccine supply gets ramped up. The City of Fitchburg is working with the owners of the former Kmart building to possibly expand the Twin Cities’ options to that building to vaccinate our nearly 100,000 residents.