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CHELMSFORD Loosened COVID restrictions means the previously-cancelled Fourth of July parade is set to go but with limitations.
In a website and social media announcement, The Chelmsford Parade Committee said, Chelmsford’s 4th of July Parade is now a go, but is a scaled back version with the full parade returning in 2022.
Currently, the parade is scheduled for July 5, 10 a.m. with the parade route traveling from McCarthy Middle School on North Road to the town center, as in years past.
A time of change
There are no plans at this time for shuttle buses, a reviewing stand or live broadcast, the announcement said.
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CHELMSFORD In 2011, Thomas Gallagher hoisted a tray of glasses while preparing for a catering job when a tremendous pain flared in his lower back. I felt like it was on fire, said Gallagher, who put down the tray, and collapsed on the floor. His T12 vertebra the 12 thoracic vertebra in the spine had ruptured.
The rupture led to paralysis in his lower body. Since Dec. 11, 2011, he has used a wheelchair to get around.
But Gallagher, 52, a math teacher at McCarthy Middle School, persevered, including in his leadership in school athletics.
UpdatedThu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:28 pm ET
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Jean Sheridan is among a half-dozen Floridians who shared stories with Patch editor Tiffany Razzano about what it’s like to portray a Santa or Mrs. Claus in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Jean Sheridan)
ACROSS AMERICA Most of you boys and girls out there understand the Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus you see in the malls and elsewhere are just stand-ins because the real deals are busy at the North Pole loading the sleigh and fueling up the reindeer, right?
The coronavirus pandemic has made it an interesting year for the proxies of Santa and Mrs. Claus.