Author name: Dan Tomasello

A THREE-ALARM fire destroyed a house located at 5 Stafford Rd. on March 7. (Tim Gorman/TMGorman Photography)

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — A three-alarm fire destroyed a Stafford Road home on Thursday, March 7.

Fire Chief/Emergency Management Director Glenn Davis informed the Villager that public safety dispatchers received a call for a garage fire at…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The Lynnfield Teachers Association (LTA) hosted four School Committee candidates during a forum held in a Lynnfield Middle School classroom on March 6.

The Town Election on Tuesday, April 9 includes two separate School Committee races that feature six candidates. Three candidates are running for two seats that have three-year terms…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — Huckleberry Hill School has found its next principal.

Interim Superintendent Tom Geary announced on March 8 that Captain Samuel Brown School Principal Lauren King has been appointed as Huckleberry Hill School’s next principal. She will succeed retiring Principal Melissa Wyland, who has led Huckleberry Hill…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The $32 million Lynnfield Public Library project is dead.

During a March 1 meeting that occurred at 8:30 a.m. on Zoom teleconference, the Finance Committee voted 7-3 not to allow a debt exclusion article on the library project to be placed on the warrant of the previously scheduled March 18…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The School Committee unanimously voted to appoint Tom Geary as interim superintendent during a Feb. 27 meeting.

Geary, whose main responsibility is serving as the assistant superintendent of finance and operations, was appointed as acting superintendent last December after former Superintendent Kristen Vogel took a medical leave of absence. The…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The School Department is looking to receive a $31,302,455 operating budget for fiscal year 2025, Interim Superintendent Tom Geary said during the School Committee’s Feb. 27 meeting.

Geary said the recommended $31.3 million operating budget represents a 5.5 percent increase, totaling $1,645,907, over FY24’s $29,656,549 spending plan.

“This is a…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The divorce is final.

School Committee Chair Kate DePrizio announced during a Feb. 27 meeting that Kristen Vogel is no longer superintendent of schools. Vogel had been on a medical leave of absence since early December.

“The School Committee and Superintendent Vogel have mutually agreed that the best way to…