Aug 20, 2020 3:25 pm ET
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BEVERLY, MA — It’s Thursday, Aug. 20. Here’s what Patch has been covering on the North Shore and across Massachusetts today.
A domestic abuse victim claims in a lawsuit filed in Salem Superior Court this week that Beverly Police Chief John LeLacheur revealed details about the victim and her children on Twitter
LeLacheur, who frequently uses Twitter to communicate with the public about police issues, posted the tweet on Oct. 18, 2017 as police searched for the woman’s ex-boyfriend. Charles Dixon, the ex-boyfriend, had threatened to kill the woman, her child and her then-unborn child. The lawsuit claims the tweet included the woman’s name, address, her child’s name and the address where she was staying under police protection. (Read more)Rep. Seth Moulton raised $4,500 from four contributors on Aug. 15 and 16: more than one of his opponents raised in total between July 1 and Aug. 12. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Incumbent candidates have long held a key advantage over primary and general election challengers, and that’s their ability to stock their war chests with campaign contributions. In the current election cycle, Moulton has raised $543,000, including $53,183.85 between July 1 and Aug. 12 according to pre-primary campaign finance reports the candidates submitted this week. (Read more)
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In a six-page letter to Selectmen Chair Peter Spellios outlining the complaint, Wayne Spritz and Mark Miller said Town Administrator Sean Fitzgerald formed a Waste Reduction Task Force without deliberation from the select board. The task force approved controversial new rules that cut the amount of trash Swampscott residents can throw out each and increased the price of overflow trash bags.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health updated its town-by-town coronavirus data Wednesday, dropping 23 communities from the “red,” or high-risk designation. Salem was not one of the communities, and remains one of 10 Massachusetts municipalities state officials say there is a high risk of COVID-19 transmission.
The pub has been in business at various Back Bay locations since 1894, surviving prohibition, the Great Depression and two World Wars. But the coronavirus crisis, which has decimated the restaurant industry, was too much for a bar that also billed itself as “America’s first documented sports-themed bar” and “the birthplace of “Red Sox Nation.”
Campus security and Brandeis University officials have given the “all clear,” lifting a campus shelter-in-place order following a reported bomb threat directed to the campus. No bomb was found. School officials issued an alert just before 11 a.m., telling those on campus to find shelter. Campus police searched the grounds and blocked off the entrance to the campus as helicopters circled for nearly three hours.
All public school students must get the flu shot by Dec. 31, unless they have a medical or religious exemption or are homeschooled, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito said, noting the flu vaccine is “the smart thing to do.” The immunizations will be required from the age of six months on for attendees of Massachusetts child care programs, pre-schools, K-12 schools, and colleges and universities, the Department of Public Health announced.
