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By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The Historical Commission is looking for a new alternate member.

During a recent meeting, the Select Board voted to accept Historical Commission alternate member Erin Hohmann’s resignation. She submitted her resignation letter to Historical Commission Chair Kirk Mansfield on Dec. 10.

“It has been my privilege to serve the community…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The School Department’s recommended fiscal year 2027 operating and capital budgets have been reduced, Superintendent Tom Geary said during the School Committee’s Jan. 13 meeting.

Geary recalled during the School Committee’s public hearing on the proposed spending plan that he previously recommended a 4.9 percent school budget increase for FY27…

AFTER A SNOWSTORM left good quality snow for building, one family made a family of snowmen on the Lynnfield High School baseball field last weekend. (James L. Macdonald Photo)

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The School Department’s technology needs have to be addressed annually.

That was the message Superintendent Tom Geary and the School Committee sent to town officials during a Jan. 13 meeting. Geary and the school board’s discussion occurred a week after Select Board Chair Phil Crawford and Select Board member Dick…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The school system’s new strategic plan will be finalized this spring, Superintendent Tom Geary said during the School Committee’s Jan. 13 meeting.

Geary recalled that the “district launched into a strategic planning process at the start of the school year to really create a cohesive roadmap for the next five…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — A new schedule is coming to Lynnfield High School next year.

Lynnfield High Principal Patricia Puglisi gave an overview of the new schedule during the School Committee’s Jan. 13 meeting. She said LHS officials and educators have been working to revise the schedule for the past two years. Puglisi said the…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — Two more incumbents have pulled nomination papers for the Town Election on Tuesday, April 14.

Planning Board Chair Page Wilkins took out papers on Monday, Jan. 12 and is running for a second five-year term in the April Town Election. She was elected to the Planning Board during the April…