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Everyone will be much safer now that legislators and Gov. Maura Healey have created law designed to help those with autism.

State Senator Jason Lewis and State Representatives Kate Lipper-Garabedian and Donald Wong joined their colleagues in the Legislature to establish a permanent, statewide “blue envelope” program, giving drivers with autism spectrum disorder a simple…

By DEAN RIDINGS, CEO
America’s Newspapers

Two hundred fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia. But America did not become a country only in that room. It became a country as the news moved from community to community. Most colonists did not witness the debates of the Continental Congress. They learned…

WAKEFIELD — A potentially catastrophic fire was narrowly averted in Greenwood last night, thanks to the close proximity of the Greenwood Fire Station and the quick work of responding firefighters.

At about 7 p.m., police transferred a 911 call to the Fire Department reporting smoke coming from a structure on Madison Avenue in Greenwood.

On…

COMIC HOBO CLOWNS have long been a feature of Wakefield’s July 4th Parade, as seen in this 1940 photo. Back then, the West Side Social Club ran the parade and all of the day’s festivities. The parade marched north on Main Street to Church Street, before it crossed North Avenue and wound its way…