January 2021

MIKE SPRINGER/Staff photo<br />
Eight-year-old Tyler Markos of Salisbury plays air hockey Friday with his friend Jaxon Rutherford at the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley in Salisbury. The club usually occupies about 150 children a day, says Executive Director Jim Keenan, but with the Covid-19 pandemic that number is down to about 30 to 50. "We can now only have up to 60 kids because of the square footage," says Keenan. Most of the current group are from Salisbury. "Normally we pick up kids at Amesbury and Newburyport schools," says Keenan, "but now we depend on the parents to drop them off. But we're open, and we're keeping the kids busy."

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MIKE SPRINGER/Staff photo
Eight-year-old Tyler Markos of Salisbury plays air hockey Friday with his friend Jaxon Rutherford at the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley in Salisbury. The club usually occupies about 150 children a day, says Executive Director Jim Keenan, but with the Covid-19 pandemic that number is down to about 30 to 50. "We can now only have up to 60 kids because of the square footage," says Keenan. Most of the current group are from Salisbury. "Normally we pick up kids at Amesbury and Newburyport schools," says Keenan, "but now we depend on the parents to drop them off. But we're open, and we're keeping the kids busy."

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