Your Local News, Sports & More! Scan & Subscribe to Advocate News Online! Vol. 35, No. 42 -FREEwww.advocatenews.net Published Every Friday BIGGEST WIN SINCE FENWAY! Malden, McGuffie (3 TDs, 197 yards) take down Lynn Classical, 36-16 Freshman LB Merant (9 tackles), Charles (Pick-6), Schonton (blocked punt) spark tough Tornado ‘D’ in victory; Malden rolls to 4-2 By Steve Freker M ake no mistake about it, Tornado football fans. This was a BIGGGGG win! Using a full team effort, led by record-setting junior running back Jayden McGuffie — and in a welcome show-up, several scoreboard contributors who are NOT named McGuffie — Malden took down Greater Boston League defending champ Lynn Classical, 36-16, at rainy Macdonald Stadium in Malden on Friday night. The victory both lifted Malden to 4-2 overall and 2-0 in the Greater Boston League (GBL) and kept the Tornados squarely in the mix to keep competing for WIN | SEE PAGE 8 Malden junior back Jayden McGuffie (2) was congratulated by teammates senior Jemiah Charles and junior Nathan Schonton in the end zone after scoring on a 60-yard pass from QB Josh Dionne. (Advocate Photo/Henry Huang) ~ Excellence in the Malden Public Schools ~ Beebe School’s Jess Howard honored with statewide MAEA ‘Middle Level Art Educator of the Year’ Award Innovative teacher has led her students to create major art displays around the city; has secured numerous grants to enable all students to contribute artistically By Steve Freker W hen one walks through the front door of the Beebe K-8 School on Pleasant Street, it is immediately apparent that this is a place where artistic creativity is respected, revered and is a source of pride. Student artwork is on display in many forms around the Beebe School, from murals, posters and sketches to prints of various varieties, even one that resembles a hologram. The driver of all this public artistic expression in a school that sits in one or the busiest neighborhoods in the city is longtime Beebe art teacher Jessica “Jess” Howard. A tireless devotee of the vast array of mediums of creating and displaying artistic works, Howard has made a major impact at the Beebe School, at other schools in the Malden Public Schools MAEA | SEE PAGE 4 Beebe School MAEA award-winning art educator Jessica Howard (right) is shown with Malden High School sophomore Sophia Zhang, a former art student at the Beebe, who won an art award from The Immigrant Learning Center and was joined by her former teacher in an award ceremony at the Blue and Gold Art Gallery event. (Courtesy/Blue and Gold/Fatima Husain Photo) T 617-387-2200 Friday, October 23, 2026 City Council on Tuesday votes final approval for new ordinances governing municipal finances Three new municipal funds affecting solid waste costs, reserve funds oversight are approved By Steve Freker he Malden City Council took the final steps on a major body of work by its members to initiate financial operations changes that are intended to provide more oversight and transparency. It was a direct dividend of the efforts City Councillors said they would undertake — nearly a year ago — to address municipal financial matters when this community undertook a process to seek a potential tax override. The Council on Tuesday night at its regular meeting voted unanimously to ordain a pair of key ordinances that were recommended out of a joint session of the Council’s Finance and Rules & Ordinance committees. Voting in favor of the new ordinances, on motions proposed by Finance Chair and Councillor-at-Large Carey McDonald and seconded by Ward 6 Councillor Stephen Winslow (on Solid Waste Enterprise Fund) and Ward 7 Councillor Chris Simonelli (on Reserve and Stabilization Fund) were those three Councillors, along with Councillors Peg Crowe (Ward 1), Paul Condon (Ward 2), Ryan O’Malley (Ward 4), Ari Taylor (Ward 5), Jadeane Sica (Ward 8), Karen Colón Hayes (atLarge), Michelle Luong (at-Large) and Council President Amanda Linehan (Ward 3). Restructuring major city financial operations The ordinances will restructure some major city financial operFINANCES | SEE PAGE 7
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