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Framingham s election filing deadline is coming up on July 15. (Neal McNamara/Patch)
FRAMINGHAM, MA Welcome to the inaugural edition of Monday Minute, a new Monday morning feature where we preview events coming up this week (plus a fun local fact) in seven Patch communities between Framingham and Worcester.
This week we re starting in Framingham, the city that Margaret E. Knight, the inventor of square-bottom paper bags, called home for much of her life.
1) Framingham
The deadline for candidates to pull papers to run for office is Thursday. So far, only five of nine City Council races and the mayoral race are competitive. All nine School Committee races are uncontested.
Mary Wenzel
The Sweats for Vets organization met its goal for the year 2020 by collecting and distributing 2,100 sweatshirts to homeless veterans in the New England/New York area.
Homeless veterans all over New England were gifted with Boston sports team hooded sweatshirts for Christmas.
Some 40 organizations participated in the Marlborough-based Sweats for Vets efforts including the St. Stephen Lutheran Church, the Marlborough Junior Woman’s Club, the Rotary Club of Marlborough and others.
The founder of Sweats for Vets, Mark Vital, started this mission with the belief that a sweatshirt from a New England based team brings more than just warmth but also pride and hope to a homeless veteran.
Matthew Tota
Correspondent
Since the spring, most breweries have not bothered delivering beer to their customers’ homes, having experienced only confusion and disappointment surrounding the process.
In February and March, many dutifully waited for official guidance on the issue, even as others started offering home delivery without approval from the state’s Alcohol Beverage Control Commission. When clarity arrived sort of in the form of an April 3 bill that authorized home delivery for establishments licensed to sell alcohol, most in the brewing industry were underwhelmed.
The guidelines, really tailored more for restaurants than breweries, permitted brewers to deliver a mere 192 ounces of beer per transaction, the equivalent of roughly three four-packs.
MARLBOROUGH Lost Shoe Brewing and Roasting Company temporarily closed its taproom Tuesday after two employees tested positive for COVID-19.
The two employees last worked at the downtown brewery and coffee roaster on Tuesday, Dec. 8, and Thursday, Dec. 10. Both employees are doing well, Lost Shoe wrote in a message on its Facebook page.
“After discussing with the health department we don’t believe there has been any potential exposure risk to any of our customers or other employees, but we do feel closing to do an extra deep clean of our taproom is the right thing to do while we await the rest of our team’s results,” the post reads.