Daily Times Chronicle

WOBURN - The annual WMHS weekend weather dance officially begins tonight, as the Class of 2011 hopes for sunny skies for this Sunday’s coming graduation ceremony.

WOBURN - City officials are torn between assuming responsibility for maintenance of state roads, or waiting for the state itself to repair the roads in a longer time frame.

WOBURN - Veteran Malcolm-White School Principal Peter Roketenetz will replace retiring Technology Director Barbara Henry next year, according to Schools’ Superintendent Mark Donovan.

WOBURN - Scott Galvin became the first, and only thus far, official candidate for mayor when he submitted his nomination papers and they were certified by the Board of Registrars of Voters.

WOBURN - Scott Galvin became the first, and only thus far, official candidate for mayor when he submitted his nomination papers and they were certified by the Board of Registrars of Voters.

WOBURN - School officials last night criticized the council’s Finance Committee for delaying its deliberations over the education budget for next year.

WOBURN - Due to a scheduling conflict with one of the defense attorneys this morning, a pre-trial conference at Woburn Superior Court for the three accomplices in the officer John Maguire murder trial was postponed until Wednesday, June 1, at 2 p.m.

WOBURN - Three men arrested in connection with the shooting death of Officer John Maguire are due back in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn on Wednesday for a pre-trial conference.

WOBURN - The Portuguese American Recreation Club came head-to-head with the city in recent days as an unpaid water-sewer bill brought a backlash to its two summer-time festivals.

WOBURN - After holding a public hearing on the matter, the city’s School Committee recently declined to offer school choice in the district next year.

WOBURN - City Council members made it clear this week they want a lot more information before they vote on U-Haul’s proposal to occupy the former Charrette building on Olympia Avenue.

WOBURN - With space at Woodbrook Cemetery continuing to dwindle, at least one member of the City Council wants to meet with the city’s Cemetery Commission to discuss a long-term strategy for burial space.

WOBURN - Mayor Scott Galvin last night detailed two new initiatives that his office will launch next year to streamline the building permit process and track the performance of various city departments.

WOBURN - Holding out hope that the work scope will be downsized, the project manager for the middle school roof projects predicted that the Kennedy renovations would not extend beyond September.

WOBURN - Mayor Scott Galvin last night submitted to the City Council a proposed fiscal year 2012 budget of $117,477,959, an increase of 3.3 percent from this year.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The family of Woburn Police Officer John Maguire and his fellow officers were in Washington, D.C. to take part in ceremonies of adding his name this weekend to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in the nation’s capital.

WOBURN - Mayor Scott Galvin last night submitted to the City Council a proposed fiscal year 2012 budget of $117,477,959, an increase of 3.3 percent from this year.

WOBURN - A man was taken to an area hospital after he was stabbed in the chest during an apparent robbery at a coin shop in the South End, Tuesday afternoon.

WOBURN - City Clerk William Campbell is expected to testify at the Statehouse on Wednesday in behalf of a bill he authored that would combine the state and presidential primaries and move them to a single election in June.

WOBURN - The City Council referred a request to convert a Green Street home into a two-family dwelling to its Special Permits Committee this week after abutters urged the aldermen to reject the petition.