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Council enthusiastically backs effort to boost injured officer’s retirement benefit (opens the original)
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WOBURN - The City Council just embraced Mayor Michael Concannonâs proposal to boost retiring police officer Robert DeNapoliâs pension payments to a rate thatâs equivalent to 100 percent of his current disability compensation. During a gathering of the councilâs Liaison Committee in City Hall last Monday night, every member of the cityâs legislative body not only indicated their support of a Home Rule petition seeking to modify the city residentâs retirement package, they further insi
7-Brew Coffeehouse eyeing new Stoneham location (opens the original)
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Stonehamâs Planning Board jumped at the chance last month to approve an almost unheard of plan to transform a sprawling Route 28 lot into a completely commercial redevelopment anchored by a 7-Brew Coffeehouse, a new Chipotle, and a Just Salad eatery. Last month, representatives for prominent Stoneham businessman John Melkonian, whose family runs the Stoneham Ford dealership off of Main Street by the corner of Elm Street, shocked many in town by announcing they had shelved plans to erect a new
City Council backs effort to bring back zoning review committee (opens the original)
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WOBURN - The City Council recently adopted an order that will revive the defunct Zoning Ordinance Review Committee (ZORC) after a near decade-long hiatus. During a Planning Board meeting on Tuesday night, Planning Director John Cashell explained that the City Council voted a week earlier in favor of a city code change that will re-establish the special committee to review potential zoning map changes and ordinance amendments. Unlike the original subcommittee, which consisted of the Planning Boar
After prolonged legal battle with home insurance carrier… Winstead Avenue homeowners obtain permits to rebuild house (opens the original)
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WOBURN - A Winstead Avenue resident whose fire-damaged house became the subject of nuisance hearings for much of 2026 just pulled building permits to rebuild his seven-room dwelling, the City Council confirmed last week. During a regular meeting in City Hall last Tuesday night, Ward 5 Councilor Darlene Mercer-Bruen, who initiated the proceedings back in January, broke the news that East Woburn residents Kirk and Laura Post were ready to tear down their old Colonial-style house and construct an i
City Council thrilled about Oct. 4 Farmer’s Market in Woburn Center (opens the original)
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WOBURN - City officials will experiment with a downtownâs Farmerâs Market on Sunday, Oct. 4 at the new pocket park across the street from Woburn Centerâs Campbell Street parking lot. During the most recent gathering of the City Council, Woburn Economic Development manager Casey Hagerty and the Woburn Redevelopment Authority (WRA) Chair Anthony Langone explained that the first-ever Woburn Center farmerâs market will begin at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4 and involve vendors setting up both at
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