Posts Tagged ‘shopping’
Data-driven derangement
Who knew that rioters and looters were covered under Phase 1 of the re-opening plan? High school graduation ceremonies with 260 students are still verboten, but if you and several thousand of your comrades want to get together and torch a church or flip over a few police cruisers, no one’s going to stop you […]
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Walk this way
As we plunge headlong toward the apocalypse, I’ve had lots of time to reflect. One thing I’ve been thinking about is rules and regulations, and lately, I’ve had no shortage of new ones to ponder. One silver lining is the governor’s new ban on reusable cloth shopping bags. As it turns out, those of us […]
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Tags: basketball courts, coronavirus, COVID-19, Farmland, flu, gyms, hockey rinks, Humor, illness, Lake Quannapowitt, Mark Sardella, Opinion, plastic bags, playgrounds, Politics, quarantine, reusable bags, shaming, shopping, six feet, soccer fields, social distancing, Stop & Shop, tennis courts, Town Council, virus. pandemic, Wakefield Daily Item
A ban for all seasons
Anyone at Town Meeting on that night last May could see that it was going to be close. Personally, I thought the plastic bag ban was going to fail narrowly if put to a YES/NO vote. But before it came to that, a third option miraculously surfaced! “Let’s refer it back to the selectmen for […]
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