Category: Education

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.

The School Committee met Thursday evening in both an Executive Session (7:00 PM) for the purpose of Impact Bargaining Strategy with the Holliston Federation of Teachers and an Open Session (begun at 7:40PM) to review the School Reopening Plan and an Athletics Update.

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I hope you and your loved ones have a safe, sunny, and socially-distant Labor Day weekend. To all the students who began school this week or will begin next week, good luck with your fall studies! Please stay safe, learn a lot, and thank your teachers who, this year more than ever, go above and beyond to make our schools and our students the best in the country.

Throughout the pandemic, job losses, business shutdowns, and other economic disruptions have caused unemployment numbers in Massachusetts to increase dramatically.