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Remember while you're taking advantage of Cyber Monday sales online that several local businesses maintain an online presence, too. Places like Ace of Clubs Golf, Nhung's Notions, and Park Press Printers sell their goods and services all over the country but are based right here in Saugus.

Today is the busiest shopping day of the year; you can however avoid the crowds, save time and money, and help out Saugus.net all at the same time. Just by using one of the links to our various sponsors (such as Amazon.com or the iTunes Store) here on Saugus.net and place an order, you'll not only save yourself money and aggravation, but you'll be helping to support the numerous free services we provide here at Saugus.net, too.

There are also local businesses (like Nhung's Notions) running online sales throughout the weekend. Be sure to check them out as well.

The Saugus.net office will be closed today and tomorrow for the Thanksgiving holiday. Regular features like the Saugus calendar will continue to get updated.

The local business NEARTA is now making cloth diapers and their site was updated today to reflect this change.

The local business Vasilios Pizza had its Web site updated today.

Recently there have been lots of spam messages going around claiming to be from random (but generic sounding) Saugus.net, Saugus.org, ShellTown, or even Saugus.MA.US addresses. Do not open any of these, as in all cases they are forged. We've said it before but it bears repeating: we never send spam.

We've been continuously adding more information about the winners of our annual Ghost Story Writing Contest as we get it. If you've not checked recently, you've probably not seen the latest version.

The Saugus High School Alumni Association site was updated today.

As there have been no yard sales posted for a couple of weeks and the season has past, we've removed the yard sales calendar link from the sidebar. It'll be back in the spring.

The local businesses Park Press Printers and Subs At Its Best both updated their respective sites today.

The Saugus Area Non-Profit Organizations Information page was updated today.

Followers of Antichrist Watch may be interested to see how it has changed since last Friday the 13^th. Now it's fully stable and has quite a few more features.

The Saugus Board of Selectmen asked us to post the following:

The Saugus Board of Selectmen are accepting applications for appointment to the Affordable Housing Trust Board of Trustees in the Town of Saugus. These are volunteer / non paid positions for Saugus residents. Those interested may submit a letter of interest / resume no later than November 24, 2009 to:

Saugus Board of Selectmen
Saugus Town Hall
298 Central Street

The local organization NEARTA has updated its site with details of Massachusetts municipal solid waste from diapers including a town-by-town breakdown.

The Saugus Board of Selectmen asked us to post the following:

The Saugus Board of Selectmen are accepting applications for appointment to the Cultural Council in the Town of Saugus. These are volunteer / non paid positions for Saugus residents. Those interested may submit a letter of interest / resume no later than November 24, 2009 to:

Saugus Board of Selectmen
Saugus Town Hall
298 Central Street

The Saugus Board of Selectmen asked us to post the following:

The Saugus Board of Selectmen are accepting applications for appointment to the Cemetery Commission in the Town of Saugus. These are volunteer / non paid positions for Saugus residents. Those interested may submit a letter of interest / resume no later than November 24, 2009 to:

Saugus Board of Selectmen
Saugus Town Hall
298 Central Street

The Saugus High School Alumni Association site was updated today.

The local businesses Subs At Its Best and Mr. Pocket Grilled Sandwiches have just gone online. Their direct URLs are:

http://www.subsatitsbest.com/

http://www.mrpocket.net/

respectively.

We've posted the detailed Saugus election results.

Don't forget that today is election day in Saugus. Even though this year's "Questions to the Candidates" feature had the least amount of participation from local candidates ever, it's worth checking out the arguments committees from both sides of the proposed charter debate have provided.

The results of the Twelfth Annual Halloween Ghost Story Writing Contest were all posted Saturday night. As with last year, our judges had to contend with many excellent entries.

It was an eventful year. We had an all-time high of five winners coming from outside the United States (including our first winners ever from the countries of Canada, Germany, and Cambodia). We had our first interactive fiction winners. We saw Revere High School sweep its category and knock Saugus High School out of its solo spot as the winningest high school in the contest's history, pushing Revere past both Wakefield and Marblehead to become the second most winningest community in the contest's history in the process (the charts have been updated). Sadly, we also lost John Burns, one of the only two judges who had been with us since the contest first started in 1998.