Boston Marathon participants will have to show up to TWO negative COVID-19 tests before this year s race - even if they ve been vaccinated
Runners at this year s Boston Marathon race will have to show a negative COVID-19 test before they re allowed to hit the course, even if they ve been vaccinated
Boston Athletic Association says it will set up a program to offer COVID testing to runners and that the tests will need to be done within a couple of days before
The testing will also applies to volunteers at the race as well
Traditionally, the Marathon would take place in just over a weeks time, but the pandemic has pushed it back to October 11
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The Kelley family has had more than its share of hardship over the years, but they are also deeply grateful for a miracle that looked like it might never happen.
Mary Jane had struggled with a rare blood cancer in the past, and by April 2019 she was in stage 5 kidney failure, undergoing dialysis three times a week. Her husband, Jerry, launched a frantic effort to get out the word that she needed a living donor for a transplant, but so far, his campaign had not worked. Then a stranger who lived just streets away stepped forward.
The transplant, which took place in October 2019, was successful but recovery was long and difficult. Today, mindful of both her heath and the threat of COVID-19, their world is largely confined to a daily ride to Starbucks and the Captain Marden s food truck. Mary Jane is able to take small walks with a cane.
Fatal Newton Police shooting: Memorial held to honor Michael Conlon
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Holding bouquets of flowers, a small group of people gathered on April 5 at the Hyde Community Center park to remember Michael Conlon, a Newton Highlands resident who died on Jan. 5, after a police-involved shooting.
“We wanted a space for people to … commemorate his life,” said Emma Kellstein before about 20 people stood in a circle as an attendee read Conlon’s obituary.
The Jan. 5 incident began after Newton and state police officers came to Indulge!, a Newton Highlands candy store, in response to a 911 call about a man, later identified as Conlon, 28, armed with a knife, according to DA Marian Ryan. The officers and a state trooper initially used “less-than-lethal” weapons to subdue him, but they did not work, the Tab previously reported.
St. Vincent CEO Carolyn Jackson says strike part of larger agenda for nurses
St. Vincent Hospital CEO Carolyn Jackson alleged that nurses are being used as pawns to enact a union objective of statewide mandatory staffing ratios, something she said would lead to higher health care costs, delays, and not improve care.
“We think they want to take St. Vincent first and then march through every contract in the state and do the same thing,” Jackson said in an interview Wednesday afternoon. “(The Massachusetts Nurses Association) are holding the Worcester community hostage to try and make this happen, and using nurses as pawns so they can push this agenda to St. Vincent’s and across the state.”
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