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Officials Explain Logic Behind Beach Lot Bans
Want to go to a beach in Massachusetts? It's not as simple as it was before the coronavirus pandemic broke out in Massachusetts.
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Church Cancels Easter Drive-In Service After Local Health Official Says Don’t Do It
An evangelical Protestant church on Cape Cod cancelled a drive-in Easter service this weekend after the town's health director said no, the pastor said. Cape Cod Bible Alliance had planned to hold a service in the church's parking lot, with church-goers staying in their cars to
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Bay Staters Taking Haircuts Into Their Own Hands
For the time being, professional haircuts from licensed barbers and hairdressers are no longer available to Massachusetts residents. Still, people are getting haircuts.
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Morbid Coronavirus Curiosity Has a Public Purpose
Early in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's 2019 novel Fleishman Is in Trouble, there's a scene in which a man recently separated from his wife is interrogated by another parent in his child's class. It was a familiar pattern: "Had things been hard for long?"
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Boston Public Schools Students Getting No Formal Instruction During Coronavirus Emergency; Teachers Still Getting Paid
Public school classes have not taken place in Boston since Monday, March 16 because of the coronavirus pandemic. So far, neither have any formal online classes for the district's more than 54,000 students. Even so, teachers are still being paid as usual.
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More Homeschoolers On the Way? Some Think Coronavirus Emergency May Make Converts
Only a small percentage of students and parents across the state do it, but supporters of homeschooling say the coronavirus pandemic could change the way some Massachusetts students are educated long-term. As of the 2017-2018 school year, just 3.04 percent of the Bay State's K-12 students were
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Coronavirus or Not, We Need A Return To Sanity
Ben Franklin was a teen when the plague struck Boston. His mother, having endured the plague several times before, was keen to the fact that the first remedy against this recurrent illness was not to panic. Many would get sick, for sure, but not most. Some would die, but by
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Five Ways To Negate Coronavirus’s Impact They’re Not Emphasizing Enough
The world is battling a coronavirus pandemic for which there is no cure. The United States's strategy is to practice good hygiene and social distancing to try to limit the virus's damage and destruction. While frequent hand washing, carrying hand sanitizer, limiting going out in public,
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