Have a Safe & Happy Labor Day Weekend! Vol. 35, No. 35 -FREEwww.advocatenews.net Malden/Melrose Rep. Lipper-Garabedian wins 5th Middlesex State Senate primary election Malden Councillor-at-Large McDonald is top Senate race vote-getter in this city Published Every Friday 617-387-2200 Friday, September 4, 2026 ‘LAST ROUNDUP’ VICTORY: Malden native Markey wins Democratic primary for U.S. Senator Fends off challenge from U.S. Rep. Moulton in landslide victory; Senator has declared this will be his last term if victorious in November Leila Bhatti Migliorelli By Steve Freker M alden/Melrose state Rep. Kate Lipper-Garabedian came out on top in the threeway Democratic primary race for 5th Middlesex District state Senate on Tuesday and now advances to the November 3 General Election. With no Republican challenger, the third-term Rep. Kate Rep. Paul Donato Lipper-Garabedian state representative sails unopposed into the final election and is poised to replace outgoing, longtime state Sen. Jason Lewis in January. Sen. Lewis did not seek reelection to a seventh term. Rep. Lipper-Garabedian topped the ticket and won the primary by a more than twoto-one margin over the second-place finisher, Malden Councillor-at-Large Carey McDonald, who was making their first try at a state office. Another Malden City Councillor, Ryan O’Malley (Ward 4), finished third. Councillor McDonald did “win” the city of Malden vote, outdistancing both the overall winner ELECTION | SEE PAGE 11 M ayor Gary Christenson announced that last week the City of Malden received a grant of $500,000 from the Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation to build a boathouse at the Malden River Works Park, which is set to open this October at 356 Commercial St. The boathouse will be named The Bayrd Boathouse in honor of the foundation. “This funding is critical to the completion of the Malden River Works project, which will finally provide Malden residents with direct access to the Malden River,” said Mayor Christenson while at the site of the project with representatives from the Malden River Works Steering Committee, the City’s Office of Strategic Planning and Development, the City Council and the Bayrd Foundation. “We are so grateful to the Bayrd Foundation for helping us realize our full park vision.” Henry “Hank” Kezer shared the following words on behalf of the Trustees of the Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation: “It is a privilege to support the resurrection of Malden’s riverfront, and the creation of the Bayrd Boathouse. This will support the activities of all of Malden’s citizens, and provide a new athletic venue for its students.” The Malden River Works Park is the result of five years of visioning and collaboration between BOATHOUSE | SEE PAGE 7 U.S. Senator Ed Markey By Steve Freker C all it the “Last Roundup” election victory for U.S. Senator Ed Markey, the lifelong Malden resident who has served the public in elected office for an even 50 years running. It was an especially loud U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark win, at that, for the longtime resident of Malden’s Edgeworth neighborhood, who turned back a spirited challenge by prominent U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton by what has to be called a landslide win in the VICTORY | SEE PAGE 3 Bayrd Foundation awards $500k for new boathouse at Malden River Works Park Special to The Advocate Carey McDonald Pictured from left to right: Malden River Works (MRW) Project Team members Marissa Zampino, Marie Law Adams and Kathy Mead Vandiver, MRW Steering Committee members Souad Akib and Rebekah McPheeters and Mayor Gary Christenson (ex-officio), Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation President C. Henry “Hank” Kezer and Vice President Laura Hodgin, MRW Steering Committee members Ramon Norales and Councillor-at-Large Karen Colón Hayes, Ward 4 Councillor Ryan O’Malley and Malden River Works Steering Committee Chair Marcia Manong. (Courtesy photo)
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