Monday, May 31, 2021

att GOP Jimmy Lyons Free Speech Shop: Republican Party

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Jimmy Lyons, I'm kind of in shock that you drank the Kool-Aid with that con-artist Trump
But I am thrilled that you are spitting in the face of Ronald Reagan with his mantra
"Thou shalt not attack thy fellow Republican."   Keep on attacking!  Help us elect
a Democrat into the Governor's Office.  THANK YOU~

Very disappointed in you.   But love that you still believe in Free Speech with the
Free Speech Shop.  Tell that to the Republican thieves in Texas acting Robin Hood in Reverse
Steal from minority voters to give to the rich.  Ronald Reagan is spinning!

My popular blog is closing in on 2 million pages views.  Since you are failing miserably in
donations and members, thought I would throw you a bone.

Here's some freedom of the press.

Blessings
JV




Crazy Jimmy Lyons in Battling Charlie Baker Damaging Republican Party....Thank God!

VLADMIR PUTIN NOT AVAILABLE, SO REPUBLICANS STEAL VOTES FROM MINORITIES BY CHANGING VOTING LAWS TO SCREW THE VOTERS....AND JIMMY LYONS IN MASSACHUSETTS IGNORES THE PHILOSOPHY OF BAD B-ACTOR RONALD REAGAN FOR THE LIKES OF DONALD TRUMP!    
 

BUT WHAT DOES JIMMY'S PSYCHIATRIST HAVE TO SAY?   

    Jimmy Lyons from next door in Arlington, originally, who walked the same streets in Saint Agnes Parish as former Mayor McGlynn and yours truly, was popular, all around nice guy.  That's why the Boston Globe article on Lyons as a bigot and homophobe is stunning.  All we can do is look at the silver lining. While Democratic Mayor Lungo-Koehn is going to lunch with Charlie Baker at the Bistro (and purportedly kicking out-to-lunch idiot Council President Caraviello-  out being out with the trash) Lyons is taking aim AT Baker.  Republican Chairman Lyons taking on Baker.   Sweet.

    Republican Chairman Jim Lyons has violated Ronald Reagan's unwritten rule of "Thou Shalt Not Attack Thy Fellow Republican."   Reagan is rolling in his grave at the Chairman promoting loser Trump.  Trump is a racist, homophobe, thief, murderer con artist.  Not someone Lyons would have aligned with back in the Arlington days.  Far from it.  

    Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy...the victims of the Trump Casino, Trump University, all the victims of the Trump scam are diametrically opposed to what you once stood for.  Fighting with the Massachusetts Republican leader, Gov Baker, also two opposing points.   Bravo.  We need a Democratic Governor here and we need one fast, so go get him, Jimmy!

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     Jimmy and his lovely wife have something in common with me. We were both relentlessly stalked at the same point in time (I was pressing charges around the time the Lyons were in court against the offenders) and we all prevailed over our crazed stalkers.   

      Was having coffee with my lawyer and pointed out the article on Jimmy and Bernie getting stalked by next door neighbors.  It was chilling. It was the same exact time that I was taking an unbalanced woman, an ex marine, to court.  What is in the water?

     Unfortunately, I couldn't get close to 5 million from the lunatic following me around as Jimmy did:


Rep. Lyons, family awarded $4.8M over harassment

Jury orders damages in lengthy feud with neighbors


State Rep. Jim Lyons and his family were awarded close to $5 million in civil damages last week, payable by former neighbors who were convicted in 2011 of criminally harassing them.

A 12-person jury last Wednesday ordered William and Gail Johnson to pay the Andover state legislator and his family $4.8 million in emotional and economic damages caused as part of a case that extends back to 2008.

Lyons, R-Andover, said that the result of the civil case, heard in Lawrence Superior Court, showed that a jury found “that myself, my wife and my children had suffered significant emotional and economic damages as a result of the intentional conduct of the Johnsons.”

“The last nine years have been an extremely trying time for our family,” Lyons said last Thursday. Lyons together with his wife, Bernadette, and family filed the civil suit in March 2009.

According to the civil complaint filed with the court, the Johnsons “falsely advertised on the Craiglist.org website that the plaintiff, James Lyons, was selling a Harley Davidson motorcycle owned by his deceased son. The plaintiffs, James Lyons and Bernadette Lyons, do not have a deceased child.”

It continued that the Johnsons “caused emails and letters to be sent to the plaintiff, James Lyons, falsely alleging that the plaintiff, James Lyons, had molested a fictitious, underage, former employee of ... Dandi-Lyons,” the family’s retail flower and ice cream shop.  https://www.andovertownsman.com/news/rep-lyons-family-awarded-4-8m-over-harassment/article_ce220cc2-02a7-50f9-9fe9-49abb59a02d8.html

    Sort of the same garbage the independent contractor and former board member of Malden Access Television: Home of the Stalkers, did to yours truly which got her off of the board either by resignation or - perhaps - resignation by threat of being voted off.   The kind of thing that forces your station to change its name to something even more ludicrous: Urban Arts and Tarts Malden or whatever equally foolish moniker, Monica!

     I Feel like Bette Midler in Ruthless People!  "I've been marked down!"  Why don't I GET THE RICH STALKERS TO SUE!  What an insult, bargain basement stalkers from Malden Access Television...maybe I'll have to sue the station!

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      Lyons promoting Donald Trump in Massachusetts is like investing $200,000.00 in gay male porn for a lesbian convention.
It's going to go over like a lead balloon!  Forget how cliche' the term lead balloon is and think of its implications.  A big leaden object you try to float like a cloud that comes tumbling back down to earth...like a friggin' meteor!
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   The lunacy of Jimmy Lyon's platform is great for Massachusetts.  It hurts Republicans and gives Democrats a stronger voice, maybe even strong enough to remove Baker.

As the Massachusetts GOP battles for relevance, its leader doubles down

By Emma Platoff Globe Staff,Updated May 30, 2021, 5:25 p.m.


Lyons was elected to represent Andover in the State House in 2010, riding the Tea Party wave as a conservative small business owner preaching tax cuts. He lost to Democrat Tram Nguyen in 2018.

As a state lawmaker, Lyons employed much the same tack he has used as party chairman, pushing social issues with little chance in the Democratic-dominated Legislature. He sometimes went too far even for his fellow Republicans, often logging the lone vote against overwhelmingly popular measures, including the annual budget. Not a single bill on which he was the lead author became law.

“The power brokers on Beacon Hill did everything to stymie my efforts,” Lyons told the Globe.

Lyons earned a reputation as Beacon Hill’s chief abortion opponent, and pushed for a ballot question to repeal protections for transgender people, which failed. LGBTQ activists cheered when they learned he had lost his seat.

Lyons also led an unsuccessful effort to oust Republican minority leader Brad Jones in 2014. Lyons said at the time leaders needed “to be more aggressive” in promoting Republican values.

 

   It is 2021, Jimmy.   The Republican Party and its Trump loons are irrelevant. Thank you for splintering the charlatan political party so desperate that it is stealing votes from minorities because Vladmir Putin is not available to you at this time.

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10:49 PM Friday May 29, 2021


Neil Osborne Calls out Medford Information Central for Bias against Fat People!

 Neil Osborne is Angry, and it isn't because of all the gay discrimination in Medford.

The Civil Rights Commissioner of Medford is a hypocrite, much like retired Human Rights individual Leo A. Sacco, Jr. who never saw a victim that he didn't want to kick in the crotch.


With Civil Rights Commission people like Sacco, who needs bigots!


But ol' Neil probably doesn't like our characterizations of fat bastards Scarpelli, Bears, Marks, Caraviello and Co., men in desperate need of long-term dates with Jenny Craig.


Neil Osborne is misconstruing our motives. We are simply noting how overweight those clods are....above the neckline.  Fat brains with no intelligence, no gray matter, all cellulite, no logic.


We're calling them fatheads, Neil.  Why focus on their obese bellies when the world can see that for itself!

Why Neil Osborne is a Homophobe Denier and How His Selfish Big Paycheck is his Main Objective

 Someone threw a bottle at   Kyrie Irving and after Irving disrespected the Celtics he played the race card.  Shameful.

Still, Irving isn't going to have Porky Junior, Isaac Bears, out there yelling "If YOU DENY RACISM, YOU ARE NOT A KYRIE IRVING FAN."

Yet in Medford, homophobia flourished under Mayor McGlynn with his pet poodles at TV3, led by a true racist team of Money Managers wearing their racist motives on their sleeves and claiming, falsely, that they love everyone.

Our efforts led to shutting them down, though Chief Racist Ron Delucia was yelling "I'll be damned if we let you take TV3 from us."   Well, we did.  How is it in hell, Ronny?

What "born again Christian" (hardly) Steve Marra said out loud was "An (N Word) is a (N Word), a fag is a fag, a spade is a spade."   It was a mixture of homophobia by Medford's fattest person (vying George Scarpelli for the title) and ultra racism.

 

Marra used the N word.  He ...the fraud born again ...said he hated everyone, so he couldn't discriminate.  IN Marra's sick mind he also said "I can sin because I'm saved!"

What was he, a postage stamp??   "Saved?"   God sent Marra to the E.R. where he almost died, legend has it, smote down the sinner!   Marra twisting the words of Jesus, the Lord, by saying he can sin because he's "saved" and he hates everyone.  It don't work that way, though Marra's hateful votes as a board member of the charlatan TV station showed his malice and why Satan is licking his chops when the porker finally arrives at the fiery depths.   Now we've got Isaac B. "Zac" Bears as the reincarnation of the hateful, horrible "Big Steve," or as Scarpelli calls him, "Mini Me."

))))))))))))))))))))

 And then there's Neil Osborne who sees homophobia nowhere when it is everywhere, initiated by Steve Marra and celebrated by Richard F. (for FXX basher) Caraviello.   Another fatty with not one scintilla of kindness in his corrupt, and equally stupid, criminal heart.

 

Kyle Irving


Celtics fan arrested after water bottle was thrown at Kyrie Irving

Jason Owens
·4 min read
 

Kyrie Irving is the latest target of abusive NBA fan behavior.

As the Brooklyn Nets guard exited toward the tunnel after Sunday's win over the Boston Celtics, a fan in the stands threw a water bottle at him.

TD Garden later announced that a fan in the arena had been arrested for throwing a water bottle and was subject to a lifetime ban. Cameras captured images of police escorting a man in a Celtics jersey away from the stands. 

Prior to the visit, Irving told reporters that he hoped for a civil reception in Boston free of "subtle racism" and focused "strictly on basketball."

"Hopefully we can just keep it strictly basketball," Irving told reporters last week. "There's no belligerence or any racism going on — subtle racism and people yelling s*** from the crowd."





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    Retaining Your Rights: Part 2, Sacred Right to Information Prior to an Election

    5/31/21  4:03 am.  5 months in 2021 in the books

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    When TV3 spit on the Constitution for their own purposes, they DENIED residents the right to  INFORMATION.

    On or around April 4, 2021 we received critical information that the Medford government was engaged in a massive cover-up regarding behavior by Adam Knight, April 1, 2021.

    This publication is experiencing that first hand, so we've filed three Open Meeting Law complaints and demanded information via FOIA, public records requests.


    Rep Paul Donato was outraged at TV3 calling political speech "THE MOST PROTECTED RIGHT," yet none of the politicians are coming forward to seek the photographs, videos and other documents which damn Knight for all eternity.


    Where are they?

    As this series continues we will express what voters can do as the entire council and the entire school committee need a reset.


    Democratic President Joe Biden said in a statement on Saturday that the legislation in Texas "attacks the sacred right to vote."

    Earlier this month, dozens of companies - including American Airlines Group Inc, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co and Microsoft Corp - urged legislators to reject any law restricting access to ballots.  Vote on Texas bill to make voting tougher blocked by no quorum (yahoo.com)

    Sunday, May 30, 2021

    Retaining Your Rights as a Medford Citizen: What You Need to Know, What You Need to DO

     YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE UP TO


        I'm in Woburn and someone in a restaurant sees me.  They give me some information about this bar and that, The Dockside being a prime suspect. They tell me to take the camera and video a former mayor drinking away.   Don't think I have to give you the name.   So many people give me info on former mayor m.m. it is astounding. They really hate him. He needed to stay in office to maintain the "nice guy" persona that he projected, but now that he is out of the bully pulpit those he hurt are on a rampage.

        "Go up to Andover and photo him living at his daughter's house" the allegation went.  That was about a decade ago, but the question I have is why are people asking me to be the private detective?  No thanks...go follow him yourselves and send photos to the e mails or the p.o. box.

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    Which brings us to 

                  Citizen Rights Vs Adam Knight.   

    The first clue on Knight came to the P.O. Box, but it was the Text that got me to file a Public Records Request.  When I posted "temper, temper Adam" the blog lit up.   As with Paul Ruseau's dark black past, there were MANY informants.


        Do the simple math: multiple informants on Ruseau, multiple informants on Knight means that these individuals are loathed; the alleged "popularity" exists in their own minds. 


        But the KNIGHT thing is extra troubling. The first informant noted that there's a MASSIVE cover-up going on.  That begs these questions:


    ...who the hell is protecting Adam Knight beyond Caraviello?  And Why?   And what is in it for Caraviello?   The answer is pretty simple, McGlynn's boys on the council Knight, Scarpelli, Falco and Caraviello are dwindling. Freddy "Krueger" Dello Russo is not there for Mike anymore, and citizens are being shielded from seeing what Adam Knight did on April 1, 2021 to benefit the puppet master, not Knight.    End Part 1.

    Saturday, May 29, 2021

    Grading Medford City Council. Goes to #1. L’Italien Report @ 2

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    How Many Live Entertainment Venues in Medford? Carroll's on Main St., Porch Fare and Juke Joint 175 River's Edge. Any others?

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    Other than the folk music at Carroll's on Main St. in Medford and the Porch Fare and Juke Joint at River's Edge, is there any other live music in Medford? 
     
     
     The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint
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    Open ⋅ Closes 10PM · (781) 874-9357 The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint
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    Hateful Caraviello Hurts Medford

     The Caraviello Problem

    How much damage has Rck’s hatred caused and cost the city?

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    Comprehensive Plan Community Kick Off Meeting Scheduled for June 9th by Jackie Piques

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    Comprehensive Plan Community Kick Off Meeting Scheduled for June 9th

    by Jackie Piques

    Residents, landlords, business owners, and all members of the Medford community invited to participate in the official public launch of the Comprehensive Planning process.

    The City of Medford and Medford’s Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee invite the Medford community to the formal Kickoff Meeting for the Comprehensive Planning process. The Kickoff Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 9, 2021 from 6 to 8pm. You can register in advance for this meeting at the link here or by visiting www.medfordma.org/compplan. For translation or other accommodations, please enter your request when registering or contact 781-393-2480 at least 2 days prior to the meeting. We currently plan to have Kreyòl ayisyen (Haitian Creole), Español (Spanish), and Português (Portuguese) translations available but will do our best to accommodate any other requests that come in

    The first community workshop will be a fun and entertaining virtual community event that creates a digital venue for celebration and to introduce the planning process. The event will be structured around a presentation broken up into three sections to introduce the scope and purpose of the comprehensive plan, introduce the team, and present initial findings from early analysis. Between each short presentation there will be a 25-minute brainstorming and input session for community members to provide thoughts, ideas, and input to help us get the plan started in the right direction.

    “Creating a guiding, sustainable plan for Medford’s future is only possible by including and incorporating input from all sectors of our community. This kickoff meeting will be one of the many ways that we will focus on getting input from everyone who lives and works in Medford, and I hope that we will see many of you at the meeting on June 9th to get this process officially started.” said Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn.

    At the kickoff meeting, attendees can expect presentations from the consultant team, breakout groups to discuss Medford’s past and factors that attendees would want to see incorporated into the planning process, planning exercises, and more. Over the course of the approximately 18-month planning process, the City, Steering Committee, and consultant teams plan to provide many opportunities for community engagement, so if you are unable to attend the kickoff meeting you will have additional opportunities to make your voice heard. A link to a recording of the presentations will also be posted on the City and Medford Community Media websites for those who are unable to attend but would like to watch after the fact. You can submit comments or feedback at any time by emailing compplan@medford-ma.gov and stay tuned for more information on a soon-to-be-launched interactive engagement website.

    “Especially as gathering restrictions are loosened beginning in June, we plan to provide increasing opportunities for in-person meetings and events, going into the Medford community where people live, work, and play, to gather input and feedback, and to meet residents and businesses in those environments that this plan will work to support and enhance,” said Alicia Hunt, Director of the Office of Planning, Development, and Sustainability. “Watch for our staff, consultants and interns from the Office of Planning, Development and Sustainability around the city this summer and stop by to talk about your thoughts!”

    For updates on the Comprehensive Planning process, visit www.medfordma.org/CompPlan.

    If you are interested in a role within the Plan, we hope that you will consider joining us as a Plan Guide! Plan Guides will help to raise awareness about the planning process and engagement opportunities. As a Plan Guide you would attend an orientation workshop and receive a toolkit and your role would be to help us spread the word in your community and facilitate input to the plan! To volunteer or nominate someone you know for a Plan Guide position, please send us an email at ocd@medford-ma.gov.

    Medford city services are available to all residents, regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, language ability, economic situation, or immigration status.

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    LGBTQ EQUALITY, not in Medford with Neil Osborne Turning a Blind Eye

     stop the hate


    medford is still Antisemetic and Homophobic


    Stop the Hate

    Unless Brady-Doherty Denounces Cop Killer Donald Trump, She brings NATIONAL POLITICS into Local Politics and she puts her views OVER COUNTRY, and that is wrong.

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    GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF JAN 6

    Go Back to New Hampshire, Patricia

    Do you get your mail in New Hampshire?  Then run for office up there.  Get lost.



    Democrats now completely control the narrative on Blue Lives Matter and protecting our good police officers. Former city councilor Patricia Brady Doherty talks about Blue Lives Matter, but her Facebook page is rife with pro-Trump, which means that supporting Trump is anti-investigation of the deaths of police officers on January 6. Now there is a strong indication that the candidate gets her mail at her home in New Hampshire. I cannot support any candidate playing both ends against the middle. After the anti-police vote in the Senate today, local Republicans are seen as acting illogically and hypocritically. Good police officers get my praise, I am VERY pro police, which is why I invest so much time exposing over one hundred bad cops on the Brady list. I am helping the good guys and gals tainted by the bad apples. See Medford Information Central dot com for more information.

     

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    Tricia Brady Doherty's Blue Lives Matter Hypocrisy Murdered Cops and Murderer Senate Republicans

     

    All our Republican friends yelling BLUE LIVES MATTER
    while praising Trump and not wanting a Jan 6 Commission
    are liars and hypocrites.  
     
    The Senate Republicans allowing officers to be murdered today reflects badly on Medford's alleged "blue lives matter" hypocrisy
    https://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2021/05/tricia-brady-dohertys-blue-lives-matter.html   It was the Republican Party that caused Benghazi by pulling the funding each embassy needed.  Did they have 33 hypocritical investigations of Hillary Clinton when Hillary was exonerated.  The Republicans in America are the new Communists licking the boots of criminal Vladmir Putin. 

    I will not sit silently and will speak up when Republican Hypocrisy infects America
    and they yell and scream and bully and try to control the conversation: because they are so wrong.  Shame on Harry MacGilvray for interfering in an election.

    They will get angry for being forced to look in the mirror, but they don't give a damn if good cops are murdered when they back Trump on Facebook and attack a good, VERY POPULAR president the majority of the country loves.

    Tricia Brady Doherty wants to be the head of this Medford United lunacy where Kerry Laidlow (resigned?) Vallerie Harris, Anna Maria Cugno and Eunice Brown have said HATEFUL, HORRIBLE things ...Eunice praising Rick Caraviello's lies when he LOST in criminal court.

    Chief Buckley allegedly hanging out at Cugno's house and at Tufts with the white kids masquerading as Black Lives Matter, as one retired officer and I agree on, Medford is UPSIDE DOWN and going backwards

    Police officers DIED on January 6, and while Tricia and her crew are yelling BLUE LIVES MATTER, they back the criminals like Clarence Thomas' wife who invested in the insurrection.

    Just pointing out what we all know, the Republicans in Medford should stick to local issues and stop embarrassing themselves.  Yell and scream all you want on Facebook, you have the police when you back Trump.  You sound as ridiculous as Zac Bears using racism as his platform while Rick Caraviello continues the homophobia initiated by TV3 19 years ago, and Ed Finn committed a hate crime when I called him out in his office for his homophobia.

    Finn, in Archie Bunker mentality, said "I can't discriminate since I'm bi-racial" (?????)

    Bigot Steve Marra at TV3 using the N word, calling me a fag, saying "I can sin because I'm saved."  Disgusting

    And Neil Osborne with his head in the sand because this started with a gay bashing and they are continuing the homosexual hate.

    Shame on all of you.   Where were all of you when Finn and Caraviello blamed the victim and thousands of dollars were invested to fight them in criminal court.   Caraviello lost, I won, and the Medford hypocrites never showed up to support someone they use every time I win for the city....

    Today's vote in the Senate has really put a spotlight on Tricia Brady Doherty and her colleagues' hypocrisy as she promotes murderer Trump while using her dirty pom poms to say BLUE LIVES MATTER

    You know what, Tricia?  I put my name on the line, I'm consistent, and you should go back to New Hampshire, we don't want your anti-police bigotry.

    The good cops I praise; the criminals I put a spotlight on.

    I'm secure with my integrity.  You are a hypocrite playing both ends against the middle

    Medford Announces Plans for Fully Reopening all City-wide Facilities Beginning June 1 by Jackie Piques

     

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    Medford Announces Plans for Fully Reopening all City-wide Facilities Beginning June 1

    MEDFORD—Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn announced this week, that beginning June 1, all City services and facilities will open at 100 percent capacity and continue to serve the residents in a safe and thoughtful manner. This follows the recent announcement by Governor Charlie Baker of the removal of all sector-specific COVID-19 restrictions effective May 29, 2021.

    To ensure the health and safety of everyone, at the recommendation of the Medford Board of Health Director, the City will continue to implement a series of public health measures while staying in line with state and federal guidance.

    “The past year has been tough on everyone but because of the decisions we made and the hard work of our residents, we are now at a point where COVID is on the retreat and the City is on the rise,” Mayor Lungo-Koehn said. “We are on our way to getting back to somewhat normal and will be able to better assist our residents with these updated public health procedures.”

    City Hall has remained open to the public since June, 2020 with enhanced public health measures in place to protect employees and visitors.

    Guidelines for conducting business at City facilities effective June 1, 2021 include:

    • Visitors to City Hall will still be required to sign in and give their contact information to the front desk greeter. This will be reevaluated on June 30.
    • Visitors may only enter City Hall through the front entrance. Side entrances will be for employees only.
    • Masks are required for all unvaccinated people while indoors, including children. This is in line with both the State’s and CDC’s current regulations.
    • Masks are strongly encouraged for vaccinated people as well when inside a City facility.

    In addition to the guidelines above, several public health measures will also continue to ensure that City operations continue uninterrupted.

    • Plexiglass barriers will remain in effect throughout departments in City Hall. They will be removed from the Council Chambers.
    • Signage throughout the City will be updated to reflect the new mask and capacity guidance.

    Public meetings will be allowed to include public participation in person with no gathering restrictions, but in-person participation will not be required. Availability of meetings on a virtual platform, like Zoom, will remain in place, and participation options may be determined by each body, board, and commission based on their needs and preference.

    The Medford Public Library will reopen on June 1 with the following guidelines in place:

    • Masks are required for all unvaccinated individuals, including children.
    • Masks will be strongly encouraged for all individuals especially when in the children’s section.
    • Contactless pick-up and drop-off will remain in place for visitors, but people are also able to browse the library’s selection in person.

    Because the Medford Council on Aging previously released June reopening information to its program participants, and to avoid confusion while the Senior Center transitions its protocols to fully reopen on July 1, the facility will abide by the following guidelines for the month of June:

    • Masks are required for all visitors.
    • People must secure a reservation in advance for indoor programs.
    • Check ins at the front desk will still be required.
    • Entry into the building is only allowed 10 minutes prior to the class and you must exit immediately after the program.

    “The vaccination rate in the city is on the rise and the virus is considerably less dangerous to those who have completed their vaccine series,” said MaryAnn O’Connor, Medford Board of Health Director. “It’s because of this that we’re able to update our guidance and allow for things to slowly return to normal throughout City facilities. We’re still mindful of the potential risks COVID presents and are adapting our procedures to ensure the safety of the community as things begin to reopen completely. We will continue to monitor and use public health data to inform our decisions going forward.”

    The strength and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines are the driving force behind these updated safety measures which will bring a much-needed sense of normal back to the City. There’s still more work to be done though to finally get the pandemic behind us, and that’s why getting vaccinated is so critical to the economic and cultural health of our communities. If you are eligible for the vaccine and haven’t registered yet, please visit vaxfinder.mass.gov to schedule an appointment. For more information on the City’s COVID response, visit medfordma.org/coronavirus-information.

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    Medford Announces Plans for Fully Reopening all City-wide Facilities Beginning June 1

    by Jackie Piques

    Medford Announces Plans for Fully Reopening all City-wide Facilities Beginning June 1

    MEDFORD—Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn announced this week, that beginning June 1, all City services and facilities will open at 100 percent capacity and continue to serve the residents in a safe and thoughtful manner. This follows the recent announcement by Governor Charlie Baker of the removal of all sector-specific COVID-19 restrictions effective May 29, 2021.

    To ensure the health and safety of everyone, at the recommendation of the Medford Board of Health Director, the City will continue to implement a series of public health measures while staying in line with state and federal guidance.

    “The past year has been tough on everyone but because of the decisions we made and the hard work of our residents, we are now at a point where COVID is on the retreat and the City is on the rise,” Mayor Lungo-Koehn said. “We are on our way to getting back to somewhat normal and will be able to better assist our residents with these updated public health procedures.”

    City Hall has remained open to the public since June, 2020 with enhanced public health measures in place to protect employees and visitors.

    Guidelines for conducting business at City facilities effective June 1, 2021 include:

    • Visitors to City Hall will still be required to sign in and give their contact information to the front desk greeter. This will be reevaluated on June 30.
    • Visitors may only enter City Hall through the front entrance. Side entrances will be for employees only.
    • Masks are required for all unvaccinated people while indoors, including children. This is in line with both the State’s and CDC’s current regulations.
    • Masks are strongly encouraged for vaccinated people as well when inside a City facility.

    In addition to the guidelines above, several public health measures will also continue to ensure that City operations continue uninterrupted.

    • Plexiglass barriers will remain in effect throughout departments in City Hall. They will be removed from the Council Chambers.
    • Signage throughout the City will be updated to reflect the new mask and capacity guidance.

    Public meetings will be allowed to include public participation in person with no gathering restrictions, but in-person participation will not be required. Availability of meetings on a virtual platform, like Zoom, will remain in place, and participation options may be determined by each body, board, and commission based on their needs and preference.

    The Medford Public Library will reopen on June 1 with the following guidelines in place:

    • Masks are required for all unvaccinated individuals, including children.
    • Masks will be strongly encouraged for all individuals especially when in the children’s section.
    • Contactless pick-up and drop-off will remain in place for visitors, but people are also able to browse the library’s selection in person.

    Because the Medford Council on Aging previously released June reopening information to its program participants, and to avoid confusion while the Senior Center transitions its protocols to fully reopen on July 1, the facility will abide by the following guidelines for the month of June:

    • Masks are required for all visitors.
    • People must secure a reservation in advance for indoor programs.
    • Check ins at the front desk will still be required.
    • Entry into the building is only allowed 10 minutes prior to the class and you must exit immediately after the program.

    “The vaccination rate in the city is on the rise and the virus is considerably less dangerous to those who have completed their vaccine series,” said MaryAnn O’Connor, Medford Board of Health Director. “It’s because of this that we’re able to update our guidance and allow for things to slowly return to normal throughout City facilities. We’re still mindful of the potential risks COVID presents and are adapting our procedures to ensure the safety of the community as things begin to reopen completely. We will continue to monitor and use public health data to inform our decisions going forward.”

    The strength and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines are the driving force behind these updated safety measures which will bring a much-needed sense of normal back to the City. There’s still more work to be done though to finally get the pandemic behind us, and that’s why getting vaccinated is so critical to the economic and cultural health of our communities. If you are eligible for the vaccine and haven’t registered yet, please visit vaxfinder.mass.gov to schedule an appointment. For more information on the City’s COVID response, visit medfordma.org/coronavirus-information.

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    Jackie Piques | May 27, 2021 at 3:32 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: https://www.medfordma.org/?p=24270

     

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