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Heard Around Town: Cousins brings in reinforcements
Along with volunteers and city workers, a group of prisoners from the Essex County House of Correction are also helping at Yankee Homecoming.
Essex County Sheriff Frank Cousins, the chairman of this year's Yankee Homecoming, is using the resources from his professional job to help make the eight-day celebration run smoother. Cousins, a Newburyport resident, said two groups of four prisoners are helping out around town.
Their primary job, he said, is to empty trash barrels along with the city's Department of Public Services, and also do things like weeding.
Cousins said one of the four-member crews is a crew that usually does work at the statehouse in Boston, where workers do jobs like painting.
For the workers, it's a pretty good gig. As one of the workers walked to another trash barrel Wednesday afternoon, he said he was thankful to be able to work during Yankee Homecoming.
"It's definitely nice," said the man, who did not want to give his name.
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Heard Around Town: Cousins brings in reinforcements
Along with volunteers and city workers, a group of prisoners from the Essex County House of Correction are also helping at Yankee Homecoming.
Essex County Sheriff Frank Cousins, the chairman of this year's Yankee Homecoming, is using the resources from his professional job to help make the eight-day celebration run smoother. Cousins, a Newburyport resident, said two groups of four prisoners are helping out around town.
Their primary job, he said, is to empty trash barrels along with the city's Department of Public Services, and also do things like weeding.
Cousins said one of the four-member crews is a crew that usually does work at the statehouse in Boston, where workers do jobs like painting.
For the workers, it's a pretty good gig. As one of the workers walked to another trash barrel Wednesday afternoon, he said he was thankful to be able to work during Yankee Homecoming.
"It's definitely nice," said the man, who did not want to give his name.