SAUGUS D Your Local News & Sports in 6 Languages! Subscribe to Advocate Online Here! CAT CAT HIS HOBBY HONORS VETERANS I TE Vol. 25, No.45 -FREE- www.advocatenews.net Published Every Friday 781-233-4446 Friday, November 10, 2023 Town Election 2023 Saugus rejects ballot question to revise Town Charter by 192 votes; reelects fi ve selectmen to third consecutive term THE MORNING AFTER: The Board of Selectmen joined together on Wednesday morning in a spirit of cooperation, hanging out at the monument rotary of Saugus Center to thank voters for reelecting them. (Courtesy photo to The Saugus Advocate) By Mark E. Vogler Over the past two decades, Saugus resident David T. Savoie has been a familiar visitor at Veterans Park, walking around in a replica World War II Army uniform on patriotic holidays. He says the countless hours he spends as a World War II reenactor – like he’s shown here at last year’s Veterans Day Ceremonies – enables him to honor the veterans of that era. Please see inside for more photos and this week’s “The Advocate Asks.” (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler) f Selectman Anthony Cogliano had his way, he would be one of nine members on a commission to revise the Saugus Town Charter. But Cogliano’s ambitious, but polarizing campaign to consider making changes in the town’s government – including a proposal to make the town manager an elected position rather than an appointed post – failed by just 192 votes during the town’s biennial election Tuesday. With a slim majority of the 4,744 residents who turned out to vote apparently satisfied with their current form of government, they also decided to keep the current five-member Board of Selectmen together for a third consecutive two-year term. But the voters also decided some dramatic changes on the town’s political landscape: –There was a major power shift in the Board of Selectmen’s leadership. After being the top vote-getter in the selectmen’s race for the previous two town elections, Cogliano lost his chairmanship position when he fi nished fourth in a fi eld of seven candidates – 759 votes behind his chief political rival, Selectman Debra Panetta, who got 473 more votes than the runner-up in the selectmen’s race. Panetta won her seventh consecutive two-year term on the board. And this marks the third time in the last fi ve elections that she will chair the board. –Two incumbent School Committee members – Leigh TOWN ELECTION | SEE PAGE 2 A NGELO’S FULL SERVICE 1978-2023 Celebrating 45 Years in Business! Regular Unleaded $3.199 MidUnleaded $3.949 Super $4.159 Diesel Fuel $4.119 Heating Oil at the Pump $4.759 $3.70 9 DEF HEATING OI 24-Hour Burner Service Call for Current Price! (125—gallon minimum) DEF Available by Pump! Open an account and order online at: www.angelosoil.com (781) 231-3500 (781) 231-3003 367 LINCOLN AVE • SAUGUS Hours. Mon.-Wed. 6AM - 6PM / Thurs. & Fri. 6AM - 7PM / Sat. 7AM / Sun. 9AM-5PM Prices subject to change DIESEL TRUCK STOP FLEET
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