SAUGUS D Vol. 26, No.31 Your Local News & Sports Online. Scan Here! CATE D O T CAT -FREE- www.advocatenews.net Published Every Friday DISCOVERING “THE UNKNOWN” T E 781-233-4446 Friday, August 2, 2024 An ongoing challenge Saugus continues its struggle to hire and keep Planning & Economic Development Department staff By Mark E. Vogler he municipal budget passed by the Annual Town Meeting in May included $225,593 to pay two full-time professionals in the Department of Planning and Economic Development. But with one month gone in the 2025 Fiscal Year, the Economic Development Coordinator and Town Planner positions are vacant. The town’s former Director of Planning and Economic Development, Christopher Reilly, quit his job abruptly a month ago and shortly after took the planning director’s job in MidCHALLENGE | SEE PAGE 2 FEATHERED FRIENDS PERFORM A mother duck and her four ducklings stole the show for a few minutes during Wednesday night’s concert at the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site as they walked beside the fence on the upper lawn. Please see inside for more photos and the story. (Photo courtesy of Laura Eisener) Are the remains of an “Unknown Soldier” buried in the Civil War Burial Plot at Riverside Cemetery? Saugonian Carol Nadeau said she doesn’t think so after acquiring an old newspaper photo that shows a military funeral and burial for a World War I casualty taking place in the area designated for the “unknown soldier.” First Sergeant Willard Frederick Swan, 20, shown above, was killed on Feb. 9, 1918, in an airplane crash at the aviation school of Camp Hicks, Fort Worth. Please see inside for more photos and this week’s “The Advocate Asks.” (Courtesy photo to The Saugus Advocate) Mid-grade Regular $3.87 3.21 73 64 Over 45 Years of Excellence! Full Service $2.99 Order online at angelosoil.com
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