FALL RIVER If you can’t get to the vaccine the vaccine will come to you.
That’s been the case during the past five weeks for a growing number of homebound Fall River residents who either are physically unable or would have great difficulty leaving their residences in order to visit a COVID-19 vaccination site.
The city’s home-visit vaccine program has been handled by the Fire Department’s EMS, or emergency medical services, division.
As of Wednesday afternoon, a total of 278 mostly elderly and incapacitated city residents had received either Moderna or Johnson & Johnson shots, according to EMS Lt. Nick Silva.
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It s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Main Street in Destin.
City of Destin workers spent about an hour last Tuesday donning Main Street in Destin with various themed Christmas banners from a big nosed Rudolph to a seahorse sporting Christmas lights and a candy cane as part of the Destin Banner Art Project headed up by Ron Sandstand of Flutterby Antiques. This is our first time to do Christmas banners, Sandstead said, noting January 2021 will mark the third year for the banner project that features local works of art. It s been a lot of fun. Christmas is a special time for most of us. The city did a great job in getting them up and I appreciate their willingness to promote local art . (we) love our local artists.