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Friday, June 2, 2017
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Let residents make the call
Two Saugus High School seniors graduating tonight are best friends and best two students
Overwhelming support at special Town Meeting assures voters will get to decide at June 20 Special Election if school-building project gets done
By Mark E. Vogler
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t won’t be a surprise to most of Rachel May’s classmates and teachers that she would be addressing Saugus High School’s 146th commencement exercises tonight as the Valedictorian speaker – the honor given to the topranked student. May erased any doubts among those attending Wednesday’s Scholarships and Academic/Ser-
vice Awards Night when she walked up to the stage in the high school auditorium to receive the first three awards that were presented for her academic excellence in courses offered by three different departments. She received the Science Department’s Excellence in Science Award, the Social Studies Department’s Good Wood Excellence in History Award and the Math Department’s May
Kelly’s Excellence in Mathematics Award. The expected encore was getting named as Valedictorian speaker. It was a very clearcut decision, as Saugus High Principal Michael Hashem told the audience that May received “straight A’s” over her years as a Sachem and that the lowest grade she got in any class was a 94. “That 94 really jumped out at
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GLAD TO BE BACK: Joseph Attubato, believed to be the longest serving Town Meeting member, said he hasn’t missed many sessions since getting elected to his Precinct 6 position in 1978. Attubato, who had missed the previous sessions of the year’s Annual Town Meeting because of illness, was happy to take part in the final session this week and the Special Town Meeting, where he and other members voted overwhelmingly in support of articles for the construction of a new Saugus High School-Middle School and improvements at the Veterans Memorial Elementary School and the Belmonte Middle School. (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler)
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here was some spirited debate. But the votes at Tuesday night’s Special Town Meeting to support two big money warrant articles for a new $160.7 million Saugus High School-Middle School and another $25.4 million in improvements for Saugus Veterans Memorial Elementary School and the Belmonte Middle School weren’t even close. They were landslide decisions – 44-2 for the new school building and 43-2 on the article to rehab and make the Saugus Veterans Memorial Elementary School and the
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