Newburyport Expands Outdoor Dining with Parklets
Published: May 16, 2021
State Sen. Diana DiZoglio(L), Mayor Donna Holaday and Rep. Jim Kelcourse cut the ribbon on parklets in Newburyport (City of Newburyport)
The city of Newburyport, Mass., formally introduced parklets to help restaurants continuing to recover from the pandemic.
Like many small cities, Newburyport is trying to attract customers back after government-mandated shutdowns in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus in 2020.
With vaccination rates up and reported positive cases of COVID-19 down, capacity limits have been lifted in Maine and New Hampshire.
Limits in Massachusetts are scheduled to increase on May 29, but Gov. Charlie Baker is scheduled to make an announcement during the coming week following the CDC s updated guidance that allows vaccinated individuals to stop wearing masks indoors and out.
Gov. Charlie Baker encourages more Massachusetts schools to partake in pooled COVID testing while touring Newburyport middle school
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker tours a pooled COVID-19 testing program during a visit to the Nock-Molin Middle School in Newburyport, Massachusetts. (Staff photo by Nicolaus Czarnecki/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)BH
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At a school in Newburyport Friday morning, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker touted a COVID-19 pooled testing program as a major component of how education moves forward during the ongoing pandemic.
Baker was touring the Nock-Molin Middle School in Newburyport with Secretary of Education James Peyser, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley and Newburyport Mayor Donna D. Holaday.
Watch: Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to speak Friday on return to in-person learning
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and two of the state’s top education officials will visit a middle school Friday as they push to see more schools shift away from remote or hybrid learning.
Baker will be joined by Secretary of Education James Peyser, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley and Newburyport Mayor Donna D. Holaday in a tour of Nock-Molin Middle School in Newburyport, which offers in-person learning.
Students at the middle school participate in a pooled COVID-19 testing program.
While at the school, Baker, Peyser and Riley will speak to reporters. The press conference is scheduled to begin at 8:30 and can be watched via livestream below.
Pool testing in schools is a âfirst-in-the-nationâ tool to get students back to in-person learning, Baker says
By Felicia Gans Globe Staff,Updated February 26, 2021, 9:27 a.m.
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Governor Charlie Baker.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
Visiting a Newburyport school on Friday, Governor Charlie Baker said the pool testing program that has launched in hundreds of Massachusetts schools in recent weeks will be a key tool in bringing students back for in-person learning and building âwhatever the next normalâs going to be.â
âTo get to the point where this thing is really starting to rock and roll is a real pleasure I think for all of us who were looking to find a relatively uncomplicated way for schools to implement a weekly surveillance program,â Baker said, speaking after seeing the schoolâs pool testing program in action.