In recent news, the Marblehead school system now has a new lead nurse. They voted anonymously through the School Committee to approve of the hire of Margarita Perlin. The vote was 4-0 at the meeting on Thursday, September 18th. Perlin has been a resident of Swampscott for 15 years and she is leaving her position as lead nurse in the Chelsea schools. She will start with Marblehead on September 29th.

Perlin immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1994. As she explained about the transition, “The communities are completely different, but people are people. They all have health issues.”

Marblehead is tipping its hat to Navy Seaman Abigail D. Leblanc, daughter of Daniel T. and Joanne M. Leblanc of Marblehead. She recently completed US Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois.

Leblanc is a 2014 graduate of Marblehead High School. During the eight week program that she just completed, she completed classroom study on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival and shipboard and aircraft safety.

The biggest event of the boot camp was “Battle Stations.” This gave recruits the skill to succeed in the fleet.

Crosby’s Marketplace wants to remind parents and students of their Register Tapes for Education program. Here is how the program works. Customers collect their grocery receipts from Crosby’s Marketplace and then give the receipts to their school. When they deposit the receipts into the RTFE program, the receipts are then converted into points and redeemed for free equipment and supplies from the program catalog.

The catalog has over 3000 items including pens, pencils, computers, sports equipment and more.

As Jim Crosby, the president of the Crosby’s Marketplace, explained, “We are proud to participate in this program to help provide much-needed educational equipment that goes into the classrooms of our customers’ children. This program is a way of enhancing the education of our youth and thanking our customers for their shopping loyalty.”

During last school year, the Crosby’s Marketplace stores raised over $5500 for nine local schools through this program. The 2014-2015 program started on September 1. For more information about the program, people can call 978-745-4272.

If you’ve always wanted to know more about the King Hooper Mansion, now is the time to learn. The Marblehead Arts Association will have a talk on Tuesday, September 9th at 7pm in the Hooper Mansion’s third-floor ballroom gallery with historian and author Robert Booth Jr. The talk will be titled “The King and the Commoners: Robert Booth’s Mansion and its Owners Over the Years.” The new information relates to the mansion’s inception and to its early history.

There will be a reception immediately after the talk. Admission is free and with a suggested donation of $5 for members of the MAA and $10 for non-members.

Booth, who was raised in Marblehead and is a current resident, has authored the award-winning book “Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City,” and the forthcoming book, “Mad for Glory.”