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Three’s a crowd in Ward 3 school committee race
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By Barbara Taormina hree candidates will face off in a primary election on September 19 for the Ward 3 seat on the School Committee. Julianne Orsino, Jennifer
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Coach Duncan Bowers makes a few last minute adjustments on Brady Sullivan during the Malden Pop Warner F Squad’s visiting scrimmage against Everett at Glendale Park Wednesday. See more photos from the game inside on page 8. (Advocate photo by Al Terminiello)
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Spadafora and Mekka Smith are all hoping to fill the seat left open when Lawrence Silverman decided not to run for re-election. While the three candidates share similar views on some major school issues, they each had specific reasons for joining the race.
Julianne Orsino For Orsino, the school district is the hub of the city. She believes there needs to be more collaboration between school and city officials on policy and budget issues and
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Malden restaurant owner indicted in NH By Barbara Taormina
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he Malden Licensing Board approved the application of a restaurant owner and manager who has been indicted for overserving alcohol to three men who later died in a car crash. Last September, board members unanimously approved Alan Yang’s application to be a stockholder and manager of Sichuan Taste on Main Street. At the time of Yang’s hearing in front of the board, he was being investigated by New Hampshire police and the NH Liquor Commission for overserving three young men at his restaurant, Jade Palace, in Stratham. That investigation led to indictments of Jade Palace and Yang specifically for overserving alcohol and for serving al-
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cohol to a minor. According to the Rockingham County Attorney’s office, on Feb. 29, 2016, Yang allegedly served each of the men three Zombie cocktails within an hour and 15 minutes. Each drink contains four ounces of alcohol. Later that night, the SUV the three men were traveling in missed a curve in the road, crashed into several trees and rolled over several times. Hunter Vars and Malachi Davis, both 21, died at the scene. Jack Perreault, 20, died several days later at Boston Medical Center. Six months later, when Yang appeared before the Malden Licensing Board meeting, he said only that he worked at Jade Pacific as a bartender. According to the Licensing Board meeting minutes, board member Judi Bucci questioned Yang about his managerial experience. Yang said he had been a bartender for five years and
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had experience serving alcohol. Yang’s lawyer, Christopher Coleman told the board that his client had Training for Intervention Procedures, or TIPS training, a program for bar and restaurant workers developed to prevent intoxication, drunk driving and underage drinking. Licensing Board Chairman James Conway asked Yang about his procedure for checking identification of customers. He also told Yang that board members visit bars and restaurants in the city and they ask similar questions. Board member Lee Kinnon asked Yang about last call hours and stressed that the two items the board considers most important are overserving alcohol to customers and serving minors. In 2013, Jade Pacific’s liquor license was suspended for serving alcohol to a minor
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