Apr 23, 2021
New covid cases in Mattapoisett and Rochester remained steady this week, as Marion saw a nearly 50% reduction in new cases, keeping the community firmly in the “green.”
Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester all have populations under 10,000, and the state determines the covid risk of communities of that size using a measurement of the total number of ongoing covid cases in each town.
Fewer than or equal to 10 active covid cases designates a low-population community as gray, between 10 and 15 cases puts a community in the green, fewer than or equal to 25 cases marks a town as yellow, and communities with more than 25 cases are designated as red.
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Aidan Pollard Mar 12, 2021
Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester are all designated as ‘gray’ the safest possible designation in the state’s color-coded covid risk designation system.
In the risk designation system, less than or equal to 10 active covid cases designates a community as gray, between 10 an 15 cases puts a community in green, less than or equal to 25 cases marks a town as yellow, and communities with more than 25 cases are designated as red.
The state doesn’t provide the raw active case data used to determine risk designation in its weekly reports, but it does provide data for new cases identified in each town in the commonwealth.
The New York Times clip featuring Robertson. Photo Courtesy: Woody Hartley.
ROCHESTER Local 11-year-old Kelcey Robertson made the New York Times last week for his work fundraising for racially diverse books for his school’s library.
Robertson sold lettuce he was growing in his garden to buy the books, which he donated to Rochester Memorial School.
“He and his mom set up a produce stand in his front yard, and he spent the day selling greens that he had picked and bagged from his family garden,” Rochester School Committee chair Sharon Hartley said at a March 4 meeting. “And at the end of the day he’d raised $700.”