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BY JASON LEVY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
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Kathy Pellerier-Carrilo of Watertown joins others at a candlelight vigil for residents who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or succumbed to the disease Friday at Apple Rehab Watertown. Her mother, Josephine Pelletier, 87, is in the facility’s COVID wing. Jim Shannon Republican-American
WATERTOWN A dark parking lot on a chilly December evening turned out to provide a lot of comfort to those seeking it Friday.
Approximately 30 people, plus a few more who remained in their vehicles, gathered in front of Apple Rehab Watertown, a 110-bed convalescent center on Bunker Hill Road, in a show of support for family members staying in the facility that has been wracked by a surge of COVID-19 cases among residents and staff.