MARBLEHEAD, MA — Today is Tuesday, Dec. 8. Here are the stories Patch has been covering on the North Shore and across Massachusetts.
When Tread Tabata, MHD owner Kelly Lorenz thinks of the members of her Marblehead fitness studio she says she feels like she is thinking of members of her own family. Lorenz said she breathed “a huge sigh of relief” Tuesday afternoon that she’ll still be able to see members of her Tread Tabata family in person after new coronavirus restrictions Gov. Charlie Baker announced fell short of shutting down gyms and fitness studios.
“I feel we are already executing all the guidelines he announced so that does not affect us negatively at all,” she told Patch shortly after watching Baker’s news conference. “It’s a huge sigh of relief.
“We had a lot of friends who were praying for us. Praying for good outcomes.”
Salem High seniors who will have gone nearly a year since setting foot in a classroom will still need to pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to be eligible to graduate in 2021.
The state Department of Secondary and Elementary Education sent a memo to schools on Monday telling them that while the tests scheduled for January can be postponed for some grades, seniors will still have to take and pass the standardized tests to graduate this spring.
The Salem School Committee voted unanimously in November on a resolution opposing the MCAS requirement for all students during the 2020-21 school year due to the coronavirus health crisis circumstances.
The box of Girls Scout Cookies, and the cheery scouts selling them, are seemingly omnipresent at stores and strip mall lots throughout Peabody each year.
Only this year, amid the coronavirus health crisis, the call of Thin Mints, Shortbreads and Peanut Butter Patties has gone silent.
With coronavirus rates rising in Marblehead, and across the region, residents will have four opportunities to get tested in the two weeks leading up to Christmas.
Salem is providing another option for new and existing businesses that are having trouble securing funding during the coronavirus health crisis.
The Salem Loan Fund was launched to help businesses that cannot get a loan from a traditional bank or credit union lender. The loans can range from$5,000 to $100,000 and will have a fixed interest rate, 1 percent closing fee and a term of up to five years.
Audio of the 9-1-1 call and dispatcher recordings of a fire rescue on Tuesday morning was released. In the audio, you can hear the off-duty police sergeant who rescued the residents talking North Reading dispatchers and first responders through his actions so that they could respond accordingly when they arrived.
The Malden Public Schools has been awarded a Food Security Infrastructure grant for $110,309 to buy a food truck. The district will use the truck to give Malden students in need free and nutritious meals on a regular basis.
The first-hand account of three brothers from Dedham who fought in the Civil War is now available in a book.
The Lathrop brothers wrote scores of letters home to their mother Marie andthree sisters. More than 150 years later, the Lathrop letters come to life in the new book, “My Dear Mother: Civil War Letters to Dedham from the Lathrop Brothers.”
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