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Three-peat: Patriots Thanksgiving Champs Assessor: Fiscal 2019 tax rate drops 6.5 percent By Tara Vocino he City Council, by a 10-1 vote, granted a special permit for the Suffolk Downs Site, which is a multiphase, mixeduse 161-acre development at 425 William F. McClellan Highway, at City Hall on Monday night. According to The HYM Investment Group, LLC Founding Partner/Managing Director Thomas O’Brien, the site will feature 2.46 million square feet of office/lab space, which will provide up to 15,000 full-time jobs and up to 6,900 construction jobs in Revere. It will also include a 35,000 square foot In-
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From left to right, Assessors John Verrengia, Dana Brangiforte and Mathew McGrath set a proposed tax rate for FY 2019 and brought their findings before the City Council on Monday night. (Advocate photo by Tara Vocino)
novation Center and 250,000 square feet of ground floor retail, more than 500,000 square feet of diverse street front retail, and 10 percent commit-
ment to local business owners. Hotel buildings will encompass 130,000 square feet
COUNCIL | SEE PAGE 10
Students awarded Supt. CertiďŹ cates Garfield students address gun safety at State House By Tara Vocino THREE’S A CHARM: The RHS Patriots football team and Coaches Lou Cicatelli and Vin Gregorio proudly hold their Thanksgiving Day Championship trophy after their 18-6 victory over Winthrop at Della Russo Stadium. See story and photos on page 12. (Advocate photo by Al Terminiello)
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Shown during their recent trip to the State House to talk about a piece of gun legislation with Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo are, from left to right, (back row) Grade 6 ELA Teacher Bridget Sheppard, Bella Stamatopoulos, Taya Testa, Robert Patterson, Lamees Al Asaad, Jeffrey Soriano Camps, Katelyn Leary, Santiago Gil, Tyarra Ramos, Melissa Mendoza, Layla Betancur-Cardona, (front row) Layla Guarino, Alex Ith, Sofia Marmoucha, Isabella Qualtieri, and Paris Peguero Pena. (Photos courtesy of Literacy Coach and Trip Chaperone Nicole LaSala)
dents during last Tuesday’s School Committee meeting. Recipients Shiara Pyrrhus, whose “dream school� is Columbia University to study International Relations with a focus in developing nations, and Julia Tran, who hopes to go to Brown University to study English with a concentration in writing, have both
taken eight Advanced Placement (AP) classes, among countless extracurricular activities. Besides the eight AP classes, Pyrrhus is taking four dual enrollment courses at North Shore Community College and Salem State Universi-
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