Page 6 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, January 5, 2024 REVIEW | FROM PAGE 1 Medford line to deal with the vacant property. After years of failed plans aiming to finally develop the former hospital, Tufts Medicine and Acadia Healthcare Company announced in 2022 that they are planning a behavioral health facility on the site. Public meetings began in 2023 – the most recent in September 2023. The joint venture is set to build a 144-bed inpatient facility that will address the critical need for accessible behavioral health services for patients of all ages in the Greater Boston area. 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(Courtesy/Malden Public Schools) MAYOR REELECTED: Malden Mayor Gary Christenson was reelected to a historic, fourth fouryear term on November 7. (Courtesy Photo) you like to see there?’ It was a mixture of preservation,” says Linehan. “[Others] would say, ‘it was great having a community hospital there, I wish we could have some type of health care or public health use.” Mayor Gary Christenson, along with city council representatives, such as Linehan, MelroseWakefield hospital and Tufts executives, worked together to execute a plan for the structure. 4. Malden was hit with a serious cyberattack in January on municipal digital information systems, prompting “full court press” investigation. The City of Malden used a “full court press” of local, state and federal resources to conduct a deep investigation of a serious cyberattack on municipal digital information systems. The key focus of the response team and joint resources was to assess the full impact of the cyberattack and consequently determine if there had been a data breach of municipal information as a result of the January 25 cyberattack. A breach was found, with private information of a number of municipal employees exposed. The cyberattack shut down nearly all of the city’s information technology (IT) systems for a period of time on January 25, including internet access and municipal telephones, in addition to other IT programs city employees use to perform necessary tasks on a daily basis. 5. Ward 5 Councillor Barbara Murphy says goodbye after 14 years and seven terms at City Hall. Councillor Murphy, first elected in 2009, is essentially “retiring” to spend more time with her family, after deciding not to run for an 8th term this past fall. Ari Taylor prevailed in November’s election and Ward 5 has a new Councillor for the first time in nearly a decade and a half. Murphy thanked all of her fellow Councillors and expressed her gratitude with being elected to serve Ward 5 for seven consecutive terms. “Being a Councillor has been the experience of a lifetime,” Councillor Murphy said at the meeting. “It is truly something I would not ever change. “The people that you meet, the problems you get to solve, it definitely broadens your horizon on what it takes to run a city and all of its moving parts,” Murphy added. ”Barbara’s done an incredible job,” said Ward 2’s Paul Condon. “She has set objectives and though it is sometimes a bumpy road on the Council, she has been fair to everyone and developed a sense of trust. ”Your impact here will be everlasting,” Councillor-At-Large Craig Spadafora, who has served for 20 consecutive years on the Council, said to Murphy. 6. String of summer shootings rattle Malden residents, spur citywide public safety meetings with city officials, Malden Police. The residents of Emerald Street in the historically tranquil Edgeworth section of Malden are far from naive. They know they nor any part of the city are immune from any type of crime, even violent in nature. That is why the incident dominating the headlines in July concerned residents from that neighborhood and beyond on July 13. They all came to an Emergency Public Safety Meeting called and organized by Ward 2 Councillor Paul Condon that was held at the Irish American Club, sited at a literal stone’s throw – about 50 feet from the front door – from where a group of
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