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.”