COVID-19 case surge at UMass prompts emergency order in Sunderland
Published: 2/11/2021 11:23:34 AM
SUNDERLAND In response to a COVID-19 surge at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Board of Health voted Monday night in support of implementing an emergency order that sets a 25 percent capacity limit on businesses and requires they close by 9:30 p.m.
The decision effectively reverses the state’s decision to increase the capacity limit on businesses from 25 percent to 40 percent on Monday. Gov. Charlie Baker had also announced in late January that he would be rescinding the early closure order.
The Sunderland Board of Health’s order went into effect at 5 a.m. on Tuesday. Penalties for non-compliance remain what they’ve been throughout the pandemic, with fines ranging from $50 for a first offense to $200 for a third or subsequent offense.
NEW BEDFORD – Francisco Cota Fagundes, a professor emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be offering in a virtual presentation a glimpse into the challenges he encountered while translating Vitorino Nemésio’s novel “Mau Tempo no Canal,” considered by literary critics as one of the greatest Portuguese novels of the 20th century.
Hosted by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, “Stormy Isles: An Azorean Tale. Translating Literary Heterolingualism and Coastal Whaling” will take place Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.
Originally published in 1944, the novel provides a vivid portrait of the Azores in the early twentieth century, revolving around the story of Margarida, a member of the elite who foregoes some of the entitlements of her class and struggles with the morals of the bourgeois society in which her life unfolds.