By PETE REDINGTON Staff Writer
Last modified: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
During Thanksgiving dinner at his home in Vermont two years ago, champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce, 27, finally told his family that he realized that the brain injury he had suffered in a crash on the slopes three years earlier had changed him forever. He looked at his brother David, 30, who has Down syndrome, and told him that he accepted the limitations he now faced. His days of X Games glory were over. Their mother Pia turned to David and asked: Would Kevin’s acceptance of his traumatic brain injury help David accept his Down syndrome? David’s eyes welled with tears as the other five family members sat silently. It was a long moment. “It’s hard,” David said finally. “But I will try.”
COVID numbers decrease overall in region
Modified: 2/21/2021 11:35:38 AM
While Sunderland remains in the state’s “red” category because of a surge in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19, the rest of the county’s towns have seen a decrease in those numbers.
Sunderland reported 33 new positive cases over the past two weeks, possibly because of the surge in positive cases at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, while Montague was the only town in Franklin County in the “yellow” or higher-risk category with 23 new cases reported in that time. Athol in Worcester County is also in the “yellow” with 43 new cases. Greenfield is the only town in the “green” or lower-risk category, with 23 cases reported over the past two weeks.
COVID-19 numbers decrease overall in region
COVID-19 rates across Franklin County are dropping, based on the most recent data from the state Department of Public Health, updated Thursday. Courtesy graphic/Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts
Published: 2/19/2021 3:08:56 PM
While Sunderland remains in the state Department of Public Health’s “red” or highest-risk category because of a surge in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19, the rest of Franklin County’s towns have seen a decrease in those numbers.
Sunderland reported 33 new positive cases over the past two weeks, most likely because of the surge in positive cases at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, while Montague is the only town in Franklin County in the “yellow” or higher-risk category, with 23 new cases reported in that time. Athol in Worcester County is also in the “yellow,” with 43 new cases. Greenfield is the only municipality in the “green” or lower-risk categor