Local experts say Franklin County and North Quabbin residents have little reason to worry that their area is vulnerable to the type of emergency a small Ohio village is experiencing after a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in early.
LEYDEN A resident has written the Selectboard with reasons she believes Dan Galvis, the town’s emergency management director who was recently given a base of operations at the Town Office building by the board, should be immediately terminated from.
NORTHFIELD During its first meeting as a five-member board on Tuesday, the Selectboard appointed a new chair and decided on its representatives to town committees, special projects and regional organizations.During the May 4 town election, new.
Regional effort in works for COVID-19 vaccine distribution
Jenny Potee, public health nurse for New Salem, gives Lori Lunn of New Salem a COVID-19 vaccine in the parking lot of Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange last Wednesday. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 2/7/2021 2:56:49 PM
While COVID-19 vaccine distribution got off to a rocky start earlier last week, it seemed to get a little better by week’s end, at least to the extent that some county seniors were receiving COVID-19 vaccines and more were planned for this week.
The city of Greenfield is preparing for its Phase 2 kickoff this week. Greenfield Interim Health Director Jennifer Hoffman said the city has 700 doses of the vaccine and will start to give first responders and “essential” personnel their second dose beginning Feb. 10, at the same time it will begin vaccinating seniors ages 75 and older.