FALL RIVER An 18-year-old Fall River man arraigned on weapons charges was ordered held without bail Monday pending a dangerousness hearing in connection with a double homicide last week in the Corky Row section of the city.
Jeremy Holmes, of Fall River, will be back in court for the dangerousness hearing on Thursday. He was arrested Friday night about 8:15 p.m. on charges of carrying an illegal firearm, carrying a loaded illegal firearm and unlawful possession of a large capacity firearm.
Last Monday, 14-year-old Miguel Sanjurjo and 29-year-old Jovaughn Antonio Mills were shot and killed near Griffin Park at 4:20 p.m. A 19-year-old man whom police have not identified suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and is expected to recover.
For Massachusetts School Lunches, Mixed Approaches Yield Mixed Results
School children are spaced apart in one of the rooms used for lunch at Woodland Elementary School in Milford, one of the first school districts to re-open in the state, with a hybrid model, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two of her kids had returned to full-time, in-person learning, but their respective schools Natick’s Wilson Middle School and Lilja Elementary hadn’t been serving lunch until the end of the day, a little before 2 p.m. Instead, she explained, kids were given two 10-minute outdoor snack breaks, socially distanced and spaced throughout the school day.
When Superintendent Almi Abeyta of Chelsea listened in a Zoom meeting last fall to her fellow superintendents talk about what they were doing to get students back into school buildings, it was a window into the kind of educational inqueties the pandemic has brought on.
Wellesley s superintendent, David Lussier, mentioned an effort to bring COVID-19 testing to schools in his upscale community. Abeyta had been focusing on improving remote learning and ensuring kids in her district had food to eat. I was like, huh? she recalled. What do you mean, COVID testing in the schools? Are you serious? I couldn t even fathom it.