Woburn Candidate Profile: Robert Meaney For City Council - Woburn, MA - Meaney, a former Ward 3 councilor, is among 4 candidates running for 2 open at-large seats on the City Council.
MIDDLESEX EAST - He just couldnât sleep. Thatâs the explanation of how a 27-year-old from Woburn managed to secure some 15,000 medical-grade and high-end fabric masks and launch a grassroots charity that donated every single one of them to area hospitals, businesses, and non-profits.
Last winter, while most public health experts were still dismissing the idea that a novel virus in China could pose a grave and present danger to the western world, Woburnâs Mark Melanson was already convinced the U.S. was about the face the greatest national crisis since World War II.
Melanson, a certified public accountant (CPA) whose familiarity with the world of finance left him familiar with statistical phenomenons like exponential growth, had read enough early COVID-19 research papers and epidemiological studies to understand what would happen once the SARS-CoV-2 virus landed on Americaâs shores.