Area schools hope being in red won’t mean stopping athletics

Like so many of his colleagues, Shepherd Hill athletic director Jim Scanlon has been anxiously awaiting and diligently tracking the town-by-town COVID-19 metrics released by the state each week.On Wednesday night, he received unwelcome news as the Massachusetts Department of Public Health moved Dudley, where the regional school is located, into the red — or highest risk — category, meaning it had an average of more than eight coronavirus cases per 100,000 […]