Daily Times Chronicle

WOBURN - St. Patrick’s parties have taken on a whole new meaning in Woburn in recent years!

WOBURN - The city’s School Committee last night declined to appoint three of its members to consider future educational uses for the Clapp School with Mayor Scott Galvin.

WOBURN - The city’s School Committee again challenged the wisdom of an order sponsored by Ward 7 Alderman Raymond Drapeau that would appoint the mayor the chairman of the school board.

WOBURN - Whether the city should try to sell or hold on to some potentially buildable land at the Reeves Elementary School site in West Woburn was the topic of a recent discussion by the City Council’s Municipal Lands Committee.

WOBURN - The city will earn about $150,000 per year from leasing space on a temporary monopole on Rag Rock to cellular communications providers, according to City Engineer Jay Corey.

WOBURN - Mayor Scott Galvin said in recent days he would not be inclined to exercise the city’s option to buy a 7.58-acre portion of Spence Farm that is under agreement to be sold to a private developer.

WOBURN - Woburn City Clerk William Campbell has drawn nomination papers to run for Secretary of State, he confirmed on Thursday.

WOBURN - Mayor Scott Galvin and several other city officials are taking a serious look at charging for parking at the city’s Walnut Street municipal parking area.

WOBURN - After one of the most dramatic discussions in the past decade, the City Council last night reiterated its support for so-called Article 97 protection for the Clapp Elementary School site in the South End.

WOBURN - The three-member Woburn License Commission wants to continue to pursue a Home Rule petition to the General Court to allow the city to exceed its 50 liquor license limits.

WOBURN - City Solicitor John McElhiney has advised the three-member License Commission that the 100-seat requirement in the city of Woburn is a law and chiseled in granite.

WOBURN - High winds on Thursday and early Friday wreaked havoc throughout the city, with downed tree limbs causing the most serious problems, including a fire at a home on West Street in North Woburn.

BOSTON - Declaring that, “My commitment to the public service has never been stronger; my ability to produce results never greater; and my enthusiasm for the job never higher,” State Representative James Miceli (D-Wilmington) declared on Tuesday, February 23, that he intends to seek reelection as a candidate in the 19th Middlesex District representing the people of Wilmington and Tewksbury.

WOBURN - The delay in construction of the former Woburn Redevelopment Authority headquarters at 371 Main St. in the heart of Woburn Center has given the relocated WRA a chance to revise its elevator plans for the rear of the building.

WOBURN - After hitting some snags early on in the process due to some fill on the lot, a special permit request from Perennial Landscaping Corp. for outside storage of materials and equipment picked up a quick endorsement from the Planning Board recently.

WOBURN - Mayor Scott Galvin reportedly directed school officials to craft a level-funded budget for next year, a task that some School Committee members characterized as “unrealistic” last night.

WOBURN - Two police officers are being lauded this morning for their quick actions to help a Rumford Park Avenue man escape a fire that broke out in his home early Thursday morning.

WOBURN - Details were still sketchy as of this morning, but a man was reportedly taken to an area hospital after he ended up under his car following an accident on Sturgis Street during the height of Tuesday’s snow storm.

WOBURN - Let the 2010 political season begin! Gov. Deval Patrick descended on the Woburn Senior Center in North Woburn at the suppertime hour yesterday and reassured Woburn Democrats that he is the candidate of choice in the next gubernatorial election.

WOBURN - Woburn native, Rev. George “Jerry” Hogan, Pastoral Team Minister at St. Michael's Parish in North Andover has also served as National Circus Chaplain for the past 17 years.