Lynnfield News

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has approved the town’s request to separate the Lynnfield portion of the Wakefield-Lynnfield Rail Trail into two different phases.

The rail trail, which will be funded by MassDOT’s State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), will connect both Lynnfield and Wakefield via the abandoned MBTA rail…

ROBERT ELLIS ORRALL and his band from the 1980s will be playing The Cut in Gloucester, on Thursday, Oct. 17. (Courtesy Photo)

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — Songwriter and record producer Robert Ellis Orrall is back playing music with his friends and old bandmates that helped launch his successful music career in the 1980s.

Orrall…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — A Vietnam War era veteran expressed concerns about an ongoing fundraiser for the new Veterans Memorial during the Select Board’s Oct. 7 meeting.

The Veterans Memorial Committee recently launched a fundraiser that entails accepting applications for inscribed pavers for the new memorial’s walkways as well as inscribed plates for the monument’s…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The Planning Board will be holding a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the Zoning Bylaw that would allow the town to comply with the MBTA Communities law on Wednesday, Oct. 23, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Al Merritt Media and Cultural Center.

Former Gov. Charlie Baker signed…

LYNNFIELD — The Lynnfield Historical Society, in partnership with Trails and Sails, recently offered an encore presentation of its “Discover Lynnfield” walk down Partridge Island Trail, visited the site of Rombult’s Grove and discussed…

STILLMAN ROAD resident Carl Rugato has launched Boston’s Wicked Haunt Fest in Charlestown’s Hood Park, 10 Stack St., this year. (Courtesy Photo)

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — Stillman Road resident Carl Rugato has taken his love of Halloween, haunted houses and scary movies to the next level.

Rugato, who graduated from Lynnfield High School in…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD —A group of residents are circulating petitions seeking to place a question on a ballot that would recall School Committee member Kate DePrizio.

DePrizio ignited a firestorm in town after she made a series of allegations against School Committee member Jamie Hayman during a Sept. 11 meeting. The former school board…