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Saugus tabs Bunnell as new athletic director

By | August 15, 2017

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SAUGUS — Saugus has named a new athletic director after a summer of controversy and bickering among town officials over the job’s structure, its parameters, and its applicants. James Bunnell, who last worked as the AD for the North Middlesex Regional School District, will replace Mike Nelson, who stepped down in June to take a…
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Steve Krause Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International, and again in 2001 from the Associated Press. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

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