{"id":5163,"date":"2026-08-26T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:32:35","slug":"half-staff-notification-12-06-22-2","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2026\/08\/26\/half-staff-notification-12-06-22-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-staff Notification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please be advised that as a mark of respect for the memory of Dolly Parton, &nbsp;and in accordance with a Presidential proclamation, Governor Maura T. Healey has ordered the United States of America flag and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts flag be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings beginning at 6:00PM today, August 25, 2026, and continuing until sunset on September 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This gubernatorial order applies to:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The main or administration building of each public institution of the Commonwealth, e.g. town and city halls<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Other state-owned or state-controlled buildings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>All state military installations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please be advised that as a mark of respect for the memory of Dolly Parton, &nbsp;and in accordance with a Presidential proclamation, Governor Maura T. Healey has ordered the United States of America flag and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2026\/08\/26\/half-staff-notification-12-06-22-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Half-staff Notification\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6,114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}