Michael Coughlin
FALL RIVER For the past ten months I’ve been writing about COVID-19 from a largely statewide perspective. Boards of Health in 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts have been and continue to battle the virus and are now working with the rest of the healthcare community to vaccinate the public.
This month and next I’ll focus on the COVID-19 experience here in Fall River. At the end of January, COVID-19 had sickened over 11,000 Fall River residents, resulting in almost 300 deaths. I recently spoke with Fall River Health and Humans Services Director Tess Curran for an update on the COVID-19 response here in Fall River.
The restaurant space and banquet facility can accommodate up to 300 people, according to the listing.
Since 1962 the club was a hub where members, who are shareholders, and the public alike could enjoy Portuguese food and socializing.
But the Academica Club was forced to shut down five years ago on Valentine s Day when the first floor was destroyed after a cast iron pipe in a second-floor bathroom cracked during a cold snap.
Before the burst pipe was discovered, the water ran for hours, saturating floors and walls and leaving three inches of water in the basement.
Since the flood, the club has struggled to fund the repairs to the gutted lower level of the building that was built in 1890.