The Hometown Weekly for all your latest local news and updates! Over 25 Years of Delivering Your Hometown News!  

Tag Archives: Massachusetts Department of Public Health

HESSCO strives to provide COVID aid

HESSCO strives to provide COVID aid

By Amelia Tarallo,
Hometown Weekly Staff -

HESSCO, a nonprofit whose mission is to help older adults and individuals living with a disability remain safe and independent at home for as long as possible, has been aiding seniors in Norfolk County communities since 1973. 

It...

Read more

Board of Health urges EEE precautions

A joint conference of boards of health (BOH) in municipalities effected by eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), together with representatives of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) and Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR), was held last Tuesday morning to discuss the status of actions taken and to be taken in the state in the...
Read more

Medfield’s EEE risk moved to ‘critical’

Town Administrator Kristine Trierweiler, the Medfield Board of Health and Medfield Public Schools Superintendent Jeffrey Marsden have reported that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) has elevated the town's risk for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) from "moderate" to “critical” August 29 in light of the death of a horse that tested positive for the...
Read more