HARWICH – Stephen Ford s career in politics took him all the way to the United States Senate. But it was when he ran for and was elected to the Board of Selectmen in 2019 that he returned to the political arena he truly loved.
“He just loved Harwich,” his wife, Patsy, said. “He was glad to help give back when he became a selectman. He was sad he wasn’t going to be able to continue with it.”
Ford, the board s vice chairman, died April 9 after a years-long bout with cancer. He was 68.
Friends, colleagues and family members say Ford, a Harwich native, will be remembered as someone who never shied away from the hard work that often came with town government, as well as being a loving father, husband and grandfather.
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HARWICH In an effort to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, Monomoy Regional School District said it has implemented a free COVID-19 pooled testing program for students and staff at its schools.
The district worked with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to offer the testing.
It is the first district on Cape Cod to launch pooled testing.
Pooled testing involves mixing several individuals’ test samples together into one “pool” and then testing the pooled sample for COVID-19 using PCR tests. This approach increases the number of individuals that can be tested at one time and allows MRSD to regularly and efficiently test the school community for COVID-19, the district said in a statement March 2.
Pooled COVID testing to start at these 120 Massachusetts schools and districts this month
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
A program to offer weekly pooled COVID-19 testing for students and educators is starting in Massachusetts this month, with 120 schools and districts signed up to participate so far, according to education officials.
Those 120 schools and districts represent more than a quarter of the state’s public school students, said a spokeswoman for the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Schools and districts will start testing as close to Feb. 8 as possible, said Jackie Reis, the spokeswoman. Some districts could start this week. DESE will continue to accept applications for the program through the end of the month.
More than 100 Massachusetts teacher unions, including three on Cape Cod, have voted “no confidence” in the performance of the state’s top education official during the pandemic.
The Bourne Educators Association, the Mashpee Teachers Association and Sandwich Education Association were among the unions whose members cited concerns with state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley’s “lack of leadership,” the Massachusetts Teachers Association said in a statement Tuesday.
The declaration of no confidence that the MTA said was signed by 104 educator unions and three non-union education groups said Riley and DESE have made changes in policies and reopening metrics without consulting educators, unions or individual school districts.