At a press conference at Houghton’s Pond, state officials stressed water safety — advocating buddy systems, designated swim areas and especially keeping an eye on small children.
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“When we’re faced with scary, traumatic events, it takes a lot of courage to be able to experience our own feelings — to sit with the horror of what’s happening.”
DESE commissioner willing to give new mayor Michelle Wu a chance to fix things in the Boston Public Schools.
It’s unclear how many Americans are suffering from “Long Covid” — by some estimates up to 30 percent of infections result in lingering effects.
With temperatures edging towards 90 degrees, many needed multiple bottles of water, with the graduation taking place at Nickerson Field – a stadium wide open to the sun.
A Massachusetts man is just the 50th recorded case of monkeypox in the United States — but the first to contract the virus without a history of either travel to West Africa, where monkeypox is endemic , or known exposure to an infected animal.
In a month, the test positivity rate has doubled to more than nine percent, hospitalizations have more than doubled and deaths are nearly double what they were in April.
Four people did not make it out of the fire alive, which started around 3:30 a.m.
Two people were killed and three others were injured in a four-alarm fire in Worcester early Saturday.