Different cities, different rules: A regional rollback that’s all over the map
You can sit at a bar and have lunch in Quincy, but not in Dorchester. You can catch a movie at a theater in Watertown, but screens are dark next door in Newton. Want to hit the gym? Try Medford or Cambridge over Somerville and Arlington, where they won’t let you work up a sweat indoors.
Worried that statewide measures aren’t stringent enough to curb a surge in COVID-19 cases, mayors and town managers are taking matters into their own hands.
But in doing so, they’ve created a hodgepodge of local rules and restrictions, an approach that many say is frustrating to business owners and confusing to residents.
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