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Springfield Set To Lift COVID Restrictions In Line With The State

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published May 26, 2021 at 10:23 AM EDT

Most COVID-19 restrictions in Massachusetts will end this Saturday.

Following the Memorial Day weekend, City Hall and other municipal buildings in Springfield will fully reopen for people to conduct their city-related business in-person.

Mayor Domenic Sarno announced he is ending his weekly COVID updates. The first one was held on March 16, 2020.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Sarno about the city’s plans for emerging from the pandemic.

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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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