Ossipee selectmen denounce mask-shaming police
Dallas Emery (right) speaks during the Ossipee selectmen’s meeting Monday. Selectmen (from left) are Martha Eldridge, Sue Simpson and Jonathan Smith. Behind the camera is Ed Comeau of Governmentoversite.com. Daymond Steer / Conway Daily Sun
Published: 1/27/2021 10:43:00 AM
Mellisa Seamans of Effingham, who took the Ossipee selectmen to task last week over their COVID-19 policies, was referred to by the board Monday as the “mask-shaming police.”
Selectmen then announced they had reversed the vote they took last week to require masks be worn at town hall.
Seamans, who said she knows of 21 people associated with town hall or their family members who contracted COVID-19, had addressed the board at their Jan. 19 meeting, imploring them to follow protocols set down by the state. She said she and her husband, Chris Seamans, an Ossipee Department of Public Works employee, both came down with the virus.