Author: Press Release

The reopening of outdoor dining service has been a boon to local restaurants and downtowns, offering a socially-distant way for all of us to support our favorite small businesses and to make the most of our summer, even in unusual circumstances.

While we await further federal action to continue support to workers, businesses, and communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts is taking every possible step to access federal funds and provide relief to those in need.

With many of our communities, including the four towns in the 8th Middlesex District, seeing low rates of new COVID-19 infections and the statewide positive test rate sinking below 1 percent, our statewide pandemic response efforts have been tailored toward targeting the areas where transmission remains far higher than the statewide average.

As we enter the second week of September, preparations continue for the return of K-12 students to our public schools. Normally, students would already be back in class, but due to COVID-19 and related preparations for our schools’ “new normal,” all four of our towns will welcome students back next week, with Westborough beginning on 9/15 and Holliston, Hopkinton, and Southborough beginning on 9/16.