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Vol. 46 | No. 35 | August 28, 2020
Shrewsbury teachers push back on district’s plans to reopen By Melanie Petrucci Senior Community Reporter SHREWSBURY – During public participation during the School Committee’s Aug. 19 meeting, held at Town Hall, Shrewsbury High School teacher Tim Scheer, addressed the committee with his concerns over the district’s reopening plans, which will be a hybrid model. Scheer spoke on behalf of 125 Shrewsbury Public School educators and community members who submitted a letter to the Committee which they received prior to the meeting. “It is our belief that the current plan is at best too incomplete to move forward with and at worst a potential catalyst for a public health disaster within our community,” he said. Their primary concern was that the plan did not adequately protect the health and safety of the school community’s stakeholders. “We feel strongly that anytime in person reopening should be based on more global public health metrics considering for example schools in other countries that have reopened safely…” he continued. He referenced the lack of opportunities for public engagement with the community before the plan was approved as well as the fact that faculty and staff come from other communities that might have a higher rate of infection than Shrewsbury. Scheer then said that the plan disregards the fact that children can spread the virus just as easily as adults. “The plan does not clearly and specifically address enough measures to mitigate the aerosol of the virus. Teachers | 20
Mary Ellen Duggan
19th Amendment commemorated in Northborough
PHOTOS/CHERYL ARSENAULT
Barbara Waible
By Bonnie Adams Managing Editor NORTHBOROUGH – With just a few months away until this year’s historic November presidential election, voting is on the minds of many Americans. For only the third time in our nation’s history, there will be a woman running for vice president – Sen. Kamala Harris of California. And a raging world-wide pandemic has thrown the safety of in-person voting in question. Mail-in ballots have become a political fireball. But 2020 also marks another important occasion in history – the 100th anniversary Vote | 9
inside this issue: news .....................2 homes & more ........14 sports ....................16 schools ...................19
obituaries .............21 crossword .............21 police log ...............22 classifieds .............23
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