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It’s been more than a year since a local convenience store received a liquor license from the board of selectmen. When the White Hen Pantry on Lincoln Avenue was granted the license to sell beer and wine, the action sparked debate and public outcry from residents. Citizens felt that type of establishment, frequented by children, should not be allowed to sell any type of alcohol.

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One of the first actions taken by the board of select-men Tuesday night was to reinstate the Citizen’s Forum and put it back into the regular agenda for selectmen meetings. Board Chairman Donald Wong told all in attendance that it was his decision to take citizen’s forum off the selectmen meeting agendas and at the time he thought it would help run the meetings faster and more smoothly.

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Thank you, Saugus Speaks Out for coming to the rescue of our children. Thank you, Donna McNeil and Ellen Faiella for having the courage and heart to ask the town’s two governing bodies to pass a bylaw that will say to anyone running a convenience store to leave the selling of beer and wine to the professionals. Our town’s children already seem to have enough accessibility to alcohol. According to studies at Saugus High School, pre-teen and teenage consumption of alcohol is on the rise. It seems every spring and summer we hear horrible stories of teenagers getting arrested for DWIs and getting into car crashes that impact families of people we know. If we in Saugus want to make alcohol, the drug of choice among our teenagers, harder to obtain we must limit and watch over who sells it.

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A special meeting was held on Tuesday night at town hall to start the proceedings to bring relief to 1,493 house-holds who fall under the new and poorly planned water rates. The newly formed committee is comprised of five members of the board of selectmen and four members of town meeting.

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Sadly last Sunday morning, Lorraine Varone, wife of Saugus Building Inspector Fred Varone, passed away suddenly at the young age of 57. To lose a loved one is something everyone has to go through in life but when innuendo and rumors are written into an article in another newspaper and left for everyone to speculate on, is wrong and unprofessional.

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Emcee of the event SBEC Vice President John Smolinsky, SBEC President Christine Wilson and Chairman of the Selectmen Donald Wong. Advocate photo/Julie Mitchell

View more photos of the 2008 Taste for Education!

The 16th Annual Taste For Education was held at the Danversport Yacht Cub in Danvers this past Monday. The Saugus Business Education Collaborative sponsored the annual springtime event and judging from the turnout, it was a huge success.

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Last Thursday, a four-alarm fire ravaged a three-family home on Central Street and if it was not for the quick thinking and bravery of one of Saugus’s firemen, the awful event could have become a tragic one as well.

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The Chairman of the Saugus Board of Assessors wishes to inform all taxpayers that a variety of exemptions are available to reduce the property tax obligations for qualifying taxpayers. The exemptions are granted following an annual review of filed applications by the three member Board of Assessors Dr. Wagner Chairman and members Michael Murphy and Leon Valliere. Taxpayers who have received exemptions in the past cannot carry them over from previous years but must be filed annually with the Board.

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Tuesday night’s board of selectmen meeting ran high with emotion over the issue of the Citizen’s Forum. Mr. John Truesdale spoke to the board asking that Citizen’s Forum be reinstated.

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