Friday, October 26, 2012
The ban on publicly organized evening activities in Wenham was been lifted ion Thursday afternoon.
Wenham made the same move on Thursday as Hamilton had done a day earlier – the Board of Health lifted its evening activity ban. The lifting on the ban was announced in a Connect-CTY phone and e-mail message at about 4:15 p.m. on Thursday. The ban on publicly organized outdoor activities in Wenham between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. had been in place since Oct. 1 because of concern about mosquito-borne illness such as West Nile Virus and Eastern equine encephalitis. The Hamilton Board of Health met on Wednesday night and voted 3-0 to lift the ban, noting that temperatures below freezing on Oct. 13 had significantly lowered the threat of disease from mosquitoes because of a reduced population. The Wenham Board of Health had been scheduled to meet on …
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Wenham Town Hall
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Hamilton Town Hall
577 Bay Rd, South Hamilton, MA
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Friday, October 12, 2012
It will be below freezing on Saturday morning, with temperatures possibly cold enough for long enough to kill mosquitoes and lift the evening activity ban in Hamilton and Wenham
Temperatures could get low enough early Saturday morning to kill most mosquitoes and lift the outdoor organized activity ban that is in place from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. “It’s a high possibility of a freeze,” said Pete Bouchard, meteorologist at WHDH-TV in Boston. Bouchard said it should get as low as 26 or 27 degrees in Hamilton and Wenham on Saturday morning. It will be below freezing for several hours, Bouchard said. The two towns are just far enough from the coast to get the temperature below freezing. For example, along Route 127 and right on the coast from Swampscott to Manchester-by-the-Sea, temperatures may only get down to 30 to 31 degrees. “Just a few miles inland it should get cold,” he said. “It will be cold – a real shot in the arm…
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Wenham Town Hall
138 Main St, Wenham, MA
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Hamilton Town Hall
577 Bay Rd, South Hamilton, MA
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Concerns about mosquitoes infected with West Nile Virus and EEE have elevated the risk level in Hamilton to "critical" and prompted the Boards of Health in both towns to ban organized outdoor activity.
All organized outdoor activity has been banned during the evenings and overnight in Hamilton and Wenham because of concern about Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile Virus in mosquitoes. The Hamilton Board of Health made the decision in a vote on Monday night and the Wenham Board of Health followed with a similar decision, according to a tape of the meeting on HWCam. The vote was prompted after the state Department of Public Health declared the threat level in Hamilton as “critical,” the highest of five levels when describing the concern about public health from mosquitoes. The threat level went to critical after a horse on a farm on Milk Street in Essex tested positive for EEE over the weekend. The “critical” level extends to …
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Hamilton Town Hall
577 Bay Rd, South Hamilton, MA
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The area around the Iron Rail property in Wenham were sprayed on Tuesday night and no further spraying is planned unless further tests come back showing that mosquitoes are carrying West Nile virus.
The Iron Rail property in Wenham was successfully sprayed for mosquitoes on Tuesday night after a mosquito infected with West Nile virus was found there last Friday. “That’s all that is going to be done right now,” said Jack Card, director of Northeast Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District, which performed the spraying at the direction of the Wenham Board of Health. The spraying truck spent about 30-45 minutes at dusk in Wenham administering a ”barrier treatment” around the playing fields, cemetery and Iron Rail building and Department of Public Works garage off Grapevine and Rubbly roads, Card said. If further mosquitoes are found in Wenham with West Nile virus, Card said he might recommend to the Wenham Board of Health that …
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Iron Rail Gymnastic Academy
91 Grapevine Rd, Wenham, MA
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Iron Rail Park
91 Grapevine Rd, Wenham, MA
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Iron Rail Cemetery
Rubbly Road, Wenham, MA
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Wenham Highway Department
91 Grapevine Rd, Wenham, MA
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Leslie Whelan
2:41 pm on Friday, October 12, 2012
National Weather Service temperature forcast for Beverly Airport predicts only a low of 32 degrees tonight: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w3u=1&AheadHour=0&Submit=Submit&FcstType=graphical&textField1=42.62750&textField2=-70.86090&site=all&unit=0&dd=0&bw=0 more ›