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Saugus Public Library’s new leader
Alan Thibeault says a decade in the Army paved the way for his librarian career on the North Shore
MASTER OF THE BOOKS: New Saugus Public Library Director Alan Thibeault – a former director of two North Shore public libraries – began work this week. Here he stands in front of a marine life mural in the children’s area of the library. (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler)
By Mark E. Vogler
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lan Thibeault was well on his way to dedicating his professional life to military service when he decided to switch careers and become a librarian. “I went to college thinking I was going to be a cop, but I wound up going in the Army,” Thibeault, 57, of Malden, said in an interview this week as
he sat in his new office at the Saugus Public Library, where he began a new job as the library’s director. “After I left the Army, I ended up working as a librarian. And when I became a librarian, I never realized I would become a public librarian. I thought I would stay in the corporate field,” Thibeault told The Saugus Advocate. “But, this is what I
wound up doing. And I like what I do and I really wish I got into this sooner. I wish I had done it decades ago.” Thibeault replaces Brian Hodgdon – a young and very popular director, who resigned in July to accept a position as assistant library director at the Salem Public Library. Hodgdon,
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Risky Behavior
The 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey for Saugus Public Schools came out this week. And like the one released two years ago, parents might find this one alarming
By Mark E. Vogler
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t’s a controversial survey bound to cause consternation for many parents of students attending Saugus High School as well as the Saugus Middle School. The most alarming results of the survey conducted this past spring of 518 Saugus High School students and 178 Middle School students: • 35.5 percent of High School students say they consumed alcohol in the last 30 days. • Close to half of the High School students taking the survey say it’s “very easy” to get some alcohol or marijuana. • In response to the question of whether anyone had sexual contact with a High School student against their will, 8 percent said yes. • During the past 12 months, 10.5 percent of High School students said they made a plan for how they would attempt suicide. • Nearly 8 percent of Middle School students said they tried vapor products over the past 30 days on one or more occasions. • 7 percent of all High School students said they rode in a car driven by somebody
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drinking alcohol in the last 30 days. • 18 percent of all High School students reported binge drinking – having five or more drinks in a row – during the last 30 days. “If you’re looking for risky behavior – about one in 20 reporting binge drinking,” Dr. Bert Dr. Bert Rothenbach, Founder Of Rothenbach Research & Consulting, in the second floor auditorium of Saugus Town Hall Tuesday night, briefing the public on the results of the “2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey” his firm conducted for Saugus Pub-
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