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Warwick Talk Continues and Swim Team Makes History

Here are the top 5 stories of the week.

It was school vacation week and a cold one. The week started with news the swim and dive team won the state championship. Talk continued about the future of the Warwick Theater. 

Here are the top 5 stories of the week in no particular order:

1. Swim and Dive Team Make History -- Marblehead Girls Swim and Dive Team won the State Championships at Harvard University on Sunday, the first time the MHS Swim Team has ever won a state championship.

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2. Residents Weigh in on Warwick -- We hit the streets to ask what you thought of the new plans for the Warwick.

3. The New Warwick Will Cost $1 million -- Michael McCloskey, an architect who heads the Marblehead 20/20 Foundation, is finalizing the business plan for the new community movie theater. He said he has no doubt his group can raise the money to allow a new non-profit group, the Warwick Theatre Community Foundation, to install a new theater in the retail and office building that Marblehead businessman and philanthropist Eijk van Otterloo is planning for the old Warwick Theatre site on Pleasant Street.

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4. Students To Get Cafeteria Upgrade --  Students will soon have a point of service system in the cafeteria that will help manage their accounts, speed up the serving lines and give the food service staff valuable consumer information.

5.  -- Check out this image gallery of clammers last weekend. The town annually issues licenses costing $10 for residents, $5 for seniors, and $25 for nonresidents to approximately 50 or 60 diggers.

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