Beacon's Highway Department and Transfer Station Closed For COVID Exposure Until January 19, 2021

Beacon’s Highway Department’s Garage. If you lose something in the fields, the Highway Department combs the fields to clean them, and the item may end up inside of this building.

The City of Beacon issued a robo-call to announce that the Highway Department is in quarantine and the Transfer Station (aka “The Dump”) is closed until January 19, 2021. This is the second known quarantine for the Highway Department, and limits their ability to conduct otherwise day to day activities, like picking up Christmas trees.

City Administrator Anthony Ruggiero said during this week’s City Council Workshop that the Highway Department employees are dubbed Essential Workers, and should a snow storm or related event happen, that they could come out to work. He also indicated that the department is reviewing protocol to improve its chances of exposure.

There was no indication on where any individual was exposed to COVID, if it was on the job or during personal life.

Wishing everyone health as the virus passes through.

Episode 5: Reuben Simmons And His One-Time Job Position As Beacon's Highway Superintendent

Skipping ahead on the episode release, this is one of our longer podcasts, but it needed to be in full length so that you could hear how everything works before settling into a decision. Normally topics like this are glossed over, but this current time period is creating space for once dismissed situations to be looked at a second time.

This podcast features Reuben Simmons, a Beaconite who had a job position for a year, and then didn’t. The reasons why are presented in this podcast, and outlined in an article on “Wait, What Is That?”