Maldden alld a Vol. 30, No. 40 den AADD -FREEBy Steve Freker T he city of Malden is being asked to make a $36 million commitment to help finance a new, state-of-the-art, school building facility for the Northeast Metropolitan Vocational Technical High School in Wakefield.Plans for the new facility have been in the works for a number of years and construction of what would be a new, three-story school building Celebrating 30 Years as Malden's Local Newspaper! CTE CAT AT www.advocatenews.net Published Every Friday INSIDE INFORMATION: Northeast Vocational seeks $36M commitment from Malden for new high school Northeast District seeks fi nancing from all district communities for $317M new school project 617-387-2200 Northeast Metropolitan Technical High School offi cials propose to erect a new, four-story school building on a hillside opposite the existing vocational school. (Courtesy Photo) could start as soon as funding from the 12 member communities, including Malden, is approved and in place. If just one of the 12 member communities do not agree with the fi nance/funding proposal, the matter would go to the ballot box and voters from all 12 communities would have to either support or reject the new school and fi nancing plan by a majority margin. The project is estimated at Portal To Hope celebrates 25 years T he award-winning Massachusetts nonprofi t organization, Portal To Hope (PTH) is celebrating 25 years in providing services to people whose lives have been impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking crimes. Driven by the voices of survivors, PTH is community-based in Everett, Lynn, Malden, Medford and Winthrop. Serving these and neighboring communities, PTH has been grateful to have the support of grassroots activists and community leaders over the years. PORTAL TO HOPE| SEE PAGE 13 this time to cost $317.5 million to complete. Northeast Superintendent David DiBarri recently announced that the project has been awarded a $138 million grant from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) to go toward construction. That would leave approximately a $179 million tab for construction that would have to be paid by the 12 sending HIGH SCHOOL| SEE PAGE 12 By Steve Freker I t’s a common theme at the end of each school day and perhaps the most important message students and staff hear: “We are all doing a good job with our masks and we have to keep it up to stay safe.” That message comes from Malden High School (MHS) fifth-year E Friday, October 8, 2021 Malden High ‘masks up’: Students, staff follow district protocols, play it safe in the new school year Peyton Carron, Justin Bell, Jonald Joseph and a bevy of MHS juniors are masking up during the school day according to Malden Public Schools district protocols. (Advocate Photo) Principal Chris Mastrangelo, who has weathered nearly half of his tenure guiding the 20th largest high school in Eastern Mass. in the midst of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Like most school districts which are back to school in 2021-22 with a fully in-perMASK UP| SEE PAGE 9 MHS Boys Soccer kicks off season Pictured from left to right are PTH Volunteers Nita Yung, Bishop Robert Brown and Pedro Queiroga. This year’s MHS Boys Soccer Captains are, from left to right, junior Christian Osorno Vasquez, senior Aman Chhetri and senior Andre De Oliveira. See page 15 for photo highlights. (Photo by Henry Huang)
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