West Springfield and neighboring communities push for vaccination site at Big E
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
West Springfield and its regional partners refreshed Wednesday an application to the state for a regional COVID-19 vaccination site at The Big E grounds on Memorial Avenue.
The regional consortium of West Springfield, Westfield, Agawam and Southwick has added two more towns: Granville and Tolland. Hampden County Sheriff Nicholas Cocchi and his department are also part of the effort.
Westfield Mayor Donald Humason said Wednesday that Baystate Health has also pledged to participate.
“So our consortium is growing,” he said.
The state turned down the west-of-the-river communities last week citing a lack of vaccine supply. But the Executive Office of Health and Human Services told the consortium that it wasn’t a hard “no” and that The Big E would be considered if the supply of vaccines increased
West Springfield, Agawam, Westfield, Southwick ask state for COVID vaccine site at The Big E
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County jails vaccinate some staff, inmates next in line
Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Hampshire County Sheriff Patrick Cahillane talks about measures to reduce exposure to the new coronavirus at the Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction on Thursday, March 12, 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 1/20/2021 1:25:15 PM
NORTHAMPTON Staff at the Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin county jails have begun to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and jail officials said they plan to offer vaccinations to inmates this week.
At the Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction, staff began getting vaccinated on Jan. 7, and so far, 44 members have been inoculated, Sheriff Patrick Cahillane said Tuesday.
Big read: Is there such thing as a humane eviction?
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The tenants in the third-floor apartment had 30 minutes to leave. Deputies from the Hampden County Sheriff s Department in black uniforms, with bulletproof vests and gold star badges had climbed the back stairs with an eviction notice.
The tenants 22 and 23, in matching Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirts and Crocs were exhausted and dazed. They had stuffed some of their possessions into trash bags and suitcases, but much of what they owned would be left behind, in mounds on the floor. I m sorry it s so messy, said one of the women. In those last moments before becoming homeless, she stood at the sink, carefully washing out the baby bottles they used to feed their puppy.
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Is There Such a Thing as a Humane Eviction?
As a bulge of evictions looms, a Massachusetts sheriff is searching for ways to soften the blow.
A sheriff places a notice to quit, the first stage in an eviction process, in the door of an apartment in Springfield, Mass.Credit.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
CHICOPEE, Mass. The tenants in the third-floor apartment had 30 minutes to leave.
Deputies from the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department in black uniforms, with bulletproof vests and gold star badges had climbed the back stairs with an eviction notice.
The tenants 22 and 23, in matching Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirts and Crocs were exhausted and dazed. They had stuffed some of their possessions into trash bags and suitcases, but much of what they owned would be left behind, in mounds on the floor.
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