WMWV – 93.5

This time of celebration for high school seniors has been anything but ordinary; but behind the scenes there’s a special committee working hard to make graduation more memorable for all Kennett High seniors.   Kevin Richards, Superintendent of Schools tells Mount Washington Radio Group’s Ron Frizzell: “The committee has formed up of parents, teachers, administration and a school board member. We do have a few things that we’re taking a look at. Hopefully we’ll have a definitive answer here pretty soon.  Within a week we’ll know one way or another.  (it’s) Pretty exciting if we are able to pull off what I think we’re going to.”  He goes on to say that the plans revolve around doing something on site, practicing social distancing and mitigating any groupings.

At the School Board Meeting on Monday Kevin Richards and his special committee hope to put forth their plans to gain approval and start moving forward with organizing.   But for now Superintendent Richards says, “It’ll be very exciting if we can do what we hope to do. But, I don’t want to put it out there and have to reel it back because that would be bad.”

Retail operations have been given the green light to open on May 11^th with guidelines in place such as wearing face masks, limiting the capacity inside of store, practicing social distancing and strict sanitation schedules.   Rob Barsamian, President of Settlers Green is working with partners to start opening on May 11^th and be fully open by Memorial Day weekend.

“Unless something changes, and unless the governor makes a different decision, that’s kind of our plan.  Now for us, behind the scenes, we’ve been working like crazy with all kinds of safety precautions.  You know more sanitization around the shopping center for the people.  Making sure the bathrooms are cleaned and sprayed down a lot more often. Doing sanitation night cleaning and  disinfectant, we’re buying spray machines for the furniture and the bathrooms.  Keeping seating areas at an appropriate distance from each other.”

The Settlers Green website hosts a statement about their reopening which includes outdoor dining for the restaurants within the shopping center.  The plan is to open May 18^th as outlined by Governor Sununu’s Stay at Home 2.0 orders.  It also notes that a list of retailers that plan to be open can be found at: https://www.settlersgreen.com/covid-19 on or before May 11^th.