Gov. Baker Promotes Danvers Mass Vaccination Site: Patch PM

Danvers MA

10 February, 2021

3:33 PM

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DANVERS, MA — It's Wednesday, February 10. Here's what you should know this afternoon: Gov. Charlie Baker was in Danvers Wednesday singing the praises of the DoubleTree vaccination site and saying that and similar large-scale sites at Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium will be the primary distribution vehicle for coronavirus shots until vaccine supply greatly increases. Researchers found skeletons in the wreckage of Whydah, a ship that sank off the coast of Wellfleet in 1717. Celebrity chef Guy Fieri's restaurant company is running a ghost kitchen out of a Merrimack Valley Bertucci's store. Scroll down for those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today. Wednesday's Top Story Gov. Charlie Baker and Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders promoted the speed and efficiency of the Danvers mass coronavirus vaccination site on Wednesday as the state opened up vaccine eligibility to those accompanying someone 75 years old or older to a mass vaccination site appointment. "If you look at the performance across the country the states that have done the best job getting shots in people's arms are the states with the big sites," Baker said. Read the full story here. Today's Other Top Stories In Massachusetts Another clue in 304-year-old mystery: Researchers at the Whydah Pirate Museum in Yarmouth said they have found at least six skeletons in the sunken wreckage of the ship the museum is named for. The ship went down in 1717 off the coast of Wellfleet. Its wreckage was discovered in 1984 and has been the subject of several excavations over the last few decades. Just don't ask for eggs: Celebrity chef Guy Fieri is running delivery-only restaurants out of several Massachusetts Bertucci's locations, including the one in North Andover. Ghost kitchens like Fieri's Flzvortown Kitchen" have increased in popularity since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as restaurants wrestle with a downturn in business. Lelling Is Leaving: U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said he will step down at the end of February. Lelling, who oversaw the prosecution of "Operation Varsity Blues" and state and Boston police overtime fraud, is following the common practice of resigning when a new administration moves into the White House. By The Numbers $27,605: That's how much a former Eastern Bank employee is accused of stealing between Sept. 2017 and July 2018 from the account of a person who died in 2015. Materesa Jose, 53, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of theft of public funds and bank embezzlement. In Case You Missed It Holy Cross Picks Vincent Rougeau As New President9 Years For Man In Framingham Robbery, Peabody KidnappingNo Bail For Brockton Man Accused Of Killing Father