Eastham voters, 894 of them, went out to vote Tuesday for an election with five uncontested races.
Jamie Demetri (847 votes) ran unopposed for one three-year term on the Select Board. She is currently the chairwoman of the Select Board.
Patricia Aurigemma (848 votes) ran unopposed for the one seat on the Nauset Regional School Committee. That position is a three-year term.
Edgar Miranda (851 votes) ran unopposed for the one seat on the Eastham Elementary School Committee, a three-year term.
There was no candidate running for the open slot on the Housing Authority. The position is for five years. (Eileen Morgan got 45 write-in votes; Jim McMakin got 10 write-in votes.)
Massachusetts districts step up efforts to vaccinate students at school
Nearly 300 students signed up for Worcester s first at-school COVID-19 vaccine clinic Tuesday. Rosaphae Bruton, 12, receives her first Pfizer shot from nurse Herline Narcisse at Whittier Street Health Center in Boston. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
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BOSTON (AP) Massachusetts school districts are stepping up their efforts to vaccinate eligible students before the end of the school year.
Nearly 300 students signed up for Worcester’s first at-school COVID-19 vaccine clinic Tuesday at Worcester Technical High School, The Telegram & Gazette reported.
Clinics are scheduled for Wednesday at North High School and South High Community School, and later this week at Doherty Memorial High, Claremont Academy and University Park Campus School, and Burncoat High.
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The rate of chronic school absenteeism shot up across Massachusetts this academic year, with many Cape districts surpassing the state average of 17%.
In Barnstable the Cape’s largest school district the percentage of students deemed chronically absent climbed to 28.6% through March, compared with 15.2% during the previous academic year, according to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
In the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District, 37% of students were absent at least 10% of the time, more than double last year’s chronic absenteeism rate of 14.8%.
Statewide, the chronic absenteeism rate is four points higher than in the 2019-20 and 2018-19 academic years.