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Wrestling 2025

Warrior wrestlers continue strong season with four more wins

Wrestling 2025
THE WARRIOR wrestling team continued their terrific season recently with a 3-0 sweep in a quad meet at the Charbonneau Field House on Saturday and a dual meet win over Lynnfield/North Reading on the road last night. (Alicen Encarnacao Racca Photo)

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield High wrestling team continued their terrific season this week with a…

 

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School Committee weighing “Open campus” for high school

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – School Committee members had a positive reaction to a plan for limited open campus for High School seniors, presented by juniors Michael Barry and Anthony LaVita at their meeting Monday, Jan. 13.

“I like the idea,” chairman Stephen Ingalls said of a plan to allow seniors to be off campus if…

 

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Elizabeth Kilkelly, 90

Valued her family above all else

FLUSHING, NY — Elizabeth P. (Betty) Kilkelly, 90, died on January 17 after a long illness.

Betty was the daughter of the late Lizzie (Bruen) and Michael McHugh and was born and grew up in the Bronx along with summers at Rockaway Beach. She graduated from Cathedral High…

 

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Safari adventurer

PHOTOGRAPHER Raj Das participated in a Hunts Photo Tanzania Safari Adventure last September. Those on the trip spent two days at Tarangire National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and on the Serengeti Plains before visiting Zanzibar and returning home. Some of Raj’s awesome photographs appear on Page 8. (Photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

 

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MHS track teams make history with pair of league titles

1st ML title for boys since 1973, repeat trophy for girls

THE TWO MELROSE High indoor track teams finished up undefeated dual meet seasons with perfect 5-0 records that have led to them both being crowned Middlesex Freedom League champs. Here, both teams celebrate. (photo by Dan Murphy, murphymediagroup.org)

By JENNIFER GENTILE

BRIGHTON—History was…

 

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Special Town Meeting Monday

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — A quorum of 150 voters is needed to conduct the Special Town Meeting on Monday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. to be held in the gymnasium at NRHS, 189 Park St.

The quorum is only necessary for Special Town Meetings — those called for a special purpose outside of…

 

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Editorial cartoon published January 23, 2025

 

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Band Director Ben Owens honored as an All-Star Educator

NRHS BAND DIRECTOR and honoree Ben Owens is surrounded by family, friends and band members during the Wasabi Fenway Bowl at Fenway Park. (Photo courtesy of Wasabi Fenway Bowl)

 

NORTH READING – Band Director Ben Owens was recently honored as an “All-Star Educator” who goes above and beyond to support his students and the…

 

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Two pull papers for town election

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — Let the games begin! Tuesday morning was the first day prospective candidates for elective office in the annual Town Election on May 6 could pull nomination papers, and two residents did just that.

As of press time Tuesday, incumbent School Committee member Jeffrey Friedman, 51 Lindor Rd., pulled papers…

 

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Classic winter fun on the Town Common

MONDAY’S SNOWSTORM provided perfect sledding conditions on the Town Common, as demonstrated by this group of sledders who tied their snow tubes together and hit their hay bale jump on-target in succession. (Maureen Doherty Photo/North Reading Transcript ©)

 

 

MOTIF NO. 1: A picture-perfect blue sky provided a beautiful backdrop for North Reading’s iconic

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Knights of Columbus community breakfast Jan. 26

NORTH READING — Warm up from the cold with a hearty (and tasty) breakfast, sponsored and cooked by the Knights of Columbus, North Reading Council #4544.

The community is invited to the Knight’s community breakfast, to be held at St. Theresa Parish Hall on Sunday, January 26, at 10 a.m. The menu will include scrambled…

 

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Don White to perform at library Saturday night

NORTH READING — The North Reading Community Coffeehouse continues its ninth season with Don White headlining its January Performing Artist Series.

A singer/songwriter, humorist and author, White has been bringing audiences to laughter and tears for 30 years. White’s arc has taken him from his industrial hometown of Lynn, across the country as hitchhiker, through…

 

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