Top 10 Saugus Stories for 2022

Ongoing issues with WIN Waste Innovations, including negotiations between the company and a committee that led to the drafting of a Host Community Agreement
Town Meeting voting to allow the sale of recreational marijuana in Saugus
The proposed redevelopment of the Kowloon Restaurant
Transition to normalcy in schools and public buildings as confirmed COVID-19 cases decline; at year’s end there were more than 10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 100 deaths since the outbreak of the virus in March of 2018
Approval of plans to build a new Northeast Regional Voke School in Wakefield, an estimated cost of up to $40 million for Saugus
The Town of Saugus’s purchase of properties in Cliftondale as town continues to put a focus on revitalization
The final completion of the Town’s two and one half mile rail-trail
The ongoing quest by Saugus Public Schools to go from the bottom 10 percent of academic performing schools to the top 10 percent
In response to a September sign incident that disparaged Jewish people, officials plan a Menorah Lighting ceremony at Town Hall
Town officials begin the long process of how to make use of six retired school buildings

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