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Despite initially delaying most aspects of the Baker administration’s previous, more incremental plan to lift the state’s remaining business restrictions, cities like Boston and Somerville are now aligning with the state’s plan to lift all COVID-19 restrictions and eliminate face covering requirements for most public settings on Memorial Day weekend.
Brookline, which recently came under national scrutiny for keeping the state’s strict outdoor mask mandate in place, also now says it will follow Baker’s new reopening timeline and rescind the town’s mask order on May 29.
Officials in Cambridge which also delayed Baker’s move to lift restrictions two weeks ago now say they’ll “likely” align with the state’s plan to lift all restrictions on May 29. A final decision is expected sometime this week.
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. Donna Holaday is the kind of mayor who does not say no to an invitation.
She shows up for lesser ribbon cuttings, at Radiant U Esthetics and the Angry Donut. She is there for the dinky parades, three or four blocks to the waterfront and back. Funerals, fund-raisers, National Honor Society inductions, she does them all.
Over four terms as mayor of Newburyport, a coastal city of around 17,000, she learned that she could always perk herself up by getting up on a podium, reflecting back the energy of a roomful of people. Not this past year.
“There is nothing. Nothing on my calendar. It’s just the way it has been for a year,” said Ms. Holaday, 66. Through the shutdown, she made a point of spending the day in her empty City Hall, if only so people could see the light on in her office.
Jan 27, 2021
In the weeks and months that followed 28–3, Dan Quinn did everything to reconcile, compartmentalize and move past the worst 20 minutes in Super Bowl history. As those three digits transformed into a synonym for choking on the grandest stage in sports, Quinn meditated every morning. He read books on grit, leadership and grief. He studied his team’s collapse, over and over he always knew how the horror movie would end, but he watched until he also knew the villain’s outfit and precisely how much blood dripped from the knife.
The Atlanta coach also ate a lot of lunches with coworkers in the spring of 2017, dining out so often that he came to worry about his weight. He needed to check in with roughly 30 members of the organization, from ownership to roster cornerstones. The Falcons had blown the largest lead in Super Bowl history; they were close enough to smudge the Lombardi Trophy with their fingerprints before it all fell away. Quinn knew that most of his dining c