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McCarthy challenges Marsh for Ward 2 School Committee seat By Barbara Taormina
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Dowling Building heads back to the future By Barbara Taormina esidents who still feel nostalgic for Malden Square in its heyday had some good
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news via Twitter this week. “Work has begun on restoring the historical character of the Dowling Building at 6 Pleasant St. thanks to @Ironwood_
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n Ward 2, voters will decide in November whether to return Emmanuel Marsh for a second term on the School Committee or to shift gears and choose challenger Robert McCarthy, Jr. to represent the neighborhood.
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Although Marsh has just one term on the committee under his belt, he has already served under three different superintendents, and has helped beat back a $2.4 million school budget deficit. He was also chairman of the committee that established a social, emotional and physical well-being curriculum in city schools.
COMMITTEE | SEE PAGE 7 Work crew from Ironwood are restoring the facade of the Dowling Building.
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Catherine Bordonaro gram to help families protect their kids from drugs, led the search committee for the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s superintendent, worked closely with the Special Education Parent Advisory Council and served on several subcommittees, including Policy
& Procedures and Public Facilities & Safety. Although she is pleased to have contributed to the School Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent round of accomplishments, she also feels thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more to do, and she is running for a second term. But this time around will be different from 2015 when she ran unopposed for the Ward 7 School Committee seat. This year she is facing a challenge from Nichole Mossalam, a longtime community activist, Malden school ad-
vocate and administrative director for the Malden Islamic Center. Parents who are active in the Malden school community know Mossalam for her participation in school issues. But more people may know her for her work fostering interfaith relationship and for her community service. Both Bordonaro and Mossalam see the School Committee as an opportunity to advocate for children in classrooms and in other aspects of their lives. As a member of Malden Overcoming Addiction, Bordonaro has made the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggle with drug abuse a priority. A big believer in prevention, she felt it would be valuable to have a program that helped parents intervene and help their kids before drugs can become a problem, and possibly an addiction. Last winter she pitched
SECOND TERM | SEE PAGE 5