Week in Review: Town Manager's Salary OK'ed, Alcohol Compliance Checks Return

Arlington's new town manager, Adam Chapdelaine, will make a salary of $158,000, the .

The Arlington Police Department will spend the next few months to ensure stores and restaurants are not serving underage patrons. 

And a crowd of area proposed to balance MBTA's budget.

Here are more of this week's essential news from Arlington Patch's coverage:

SCHOOLS

Over February break, volunteers, students and teacher Allison Oropallo teamed up to to renovate an outdated technology education woodshop and classroom at .

The project started when Oropallo, of "All American Handyman" fame, received a call from an old high school classmate, P.J. Davey, who runs New Hampshire nonprofit Paint It Forward.

We have a great .

And Arlington's youth are . Alexander W. Agudelo and Patrick J. Crane, of Arlington,  students at Boston College High School, were among the 119 seniors and juniors inducted into the Robert J. Fulton, S.J. Chapter of the National Honor Society at an evening ceremony on Jan. 11.

GOVERNMENT

It's official: Adam Chapdelaine has and is Arlington's new town manager. He recently signed his paperwork with  Stephanie Lucarelli presiding. 

Arlington Patch was there for the ceremony and .

BUSINESS

The results are in and  was named the best place for a sandwich in Arlington in last week's Best of Patch poll.

D'Agostino's received  and edged out , which finished second with 14 percent of votes.

Check back on Monday morning for this week's poll of Arlington's best auto repair shops.

SOCIAL MEDIA SATURDAY

Every Saturday, Arlington Patch take a look at our life in social media, checking in on the chatter on our Facebook and Twitter. Do you know what's our favorite page of the week? Were your comments featured? Find out on .

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