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Sports: May 6, 2024

 

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Girls Track Spring 2024

Warrior girls’ track stays undefeated with 77-59 win over Burlington

Girls Track Spring 2024
WAKEFIELD’s Charlotte O’Neil (left) and Grace Brackett finished 2nd and 3rd in the 2 mile to help the Warriors sweep the event in a win over Burlington on April 30. (Courtesy Photo)

BURLINGTON — The Wakefield High outdoor girls’ track and field team continued their undefeated season with a huge, 77-59 win over a talented…

 

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Real Estate Transactions, May 6, 2024

 

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TM Spring 2024

Town Meeting OKs self-storage district

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – Town Meeting voters last week approved an article to allow the building of a self-storage facility and park on Quannapowitt Parkway.

Article 16 called for the establishment of a Self-Storage Facility Overlay District for 50 Quannapowitt Parkway. Speaking on behalf of various owners linked to the Beal Companies and storage facilities

 

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Recognizing our 130th anniversary

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THE WAKEFIELD DAILY ITEM BUILDING on Albion Street in 1919.

Tomorrow marks the Daily Item’s 130th anniversary. Thirteen decades is a long time to be in business. Especially this one.

Print journalism is dying and has been for a long time. Social media carries the day in a lot of places, and in some pockets

 

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David DuShane, 73

Retired Wakefield police officer

NORTH ANDOVER — David L. DuShane, age 73, of North Andover, passed away on Tuesday, April 30 at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

He was born in Melrose on October 4, 1950, to the late Lionel and Miriam (Gillespie) DuShane. David graduated from Wakefield High School in the…

 

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Local historian to talk of ‘V-Mail’ Tuesday

MADELINE DITONNO PANACCIONE shares a piece of her family’s V-Mail with historian David Watts, Jr.

WAKEFIELD — David Watts, Jr., in partnership with The Room to Write, will present an illustrated talk, “V-Mail is Speed Mail” on Tuesday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Heritage Room at Wakefield’s Americal Civic Center, 467 Main St…

 

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Warrior boys’ tennis tops Reading 3-2

THE WAKEFIELD High boys’ tennis team celebrates their 3-2 victory over Reading on Tuesday at the Dobbins Courts. (Courtesy Photo)

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield High boys’ tennis team improved to 4-4 on the season with a hard-earned 3-2 victory over Reading on Tuesday at the Dobbins Courts.

The Warriors, who got their revenge after falling to…

 

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Friends of NRCOA presenting Container Gardening Monday, May 6

NORTH READING — At our monthly meeting Monday, May 6, Hugo Wiberg, one of our Board members, and President of the Friends of the North Reading Council on Aging, will give us some tips on home gardening, with special emphasis on container gardening.
The meeting will be take place at 7 p.m. at the Edith

 

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Winklers bush

THIS LOVELY AZALEA on Wentworth St. had a perfect blue sky backdrop last weekend. (Grace Gentile Photo)

 

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MEF’s pink flamingo fundraiser returns

YOU CAN HELP the Melrose Education Foundation by putting these in your front yard.

 

 

MELROSE — The famous Melrose Education Foundation pink flamingos are coming to a lawn near you!

Flock your friends, neighbors, or yourself for a great cause. Order a flock today and a “flamboyance” of pink yard flamingos will land…

 

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Melrose celebrates National Therapy Animal Day

THERAPY DOGS PICTURED from the left: Bear, Black Lab; Tinker, Black Lab; Finley, Irish Doodle; and Moseley, Newfoundland. (Photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

 

 

MELROSE — April 30 is National Therapy Animal Day. National Therapy Animal Day was created by Pet Partners, an American nonprofit organization specializing in therapy animals to: recognize and honor…

 

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