Lynnfield News

Published March 6, 2019

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — After years in the making, the MarketStreet cinema proposal is headed to the April 29 Town Meeting.

National Development Managing Partner Ted Tye unveiled the proposed warrant article during the Board of Selectmen’s Feb. 27 meeting. He said the proposed cinema would consist of eight screens…

Published March 6, 2019

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The Wakefield-Lynnfield Rail Trail is headed to the April 9 Town Election ballot.

The Board of Selectmen voted 2-0 on Feb. 27 to place a non-binding referendum that will ask townspeople if they are in favor of moving forward with the rail trail project. Selectmen Chairman…

Published March 6, 2019

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — A proposed elderly housing development eyed for Main Street near the Sagamore Spring Golf Club was unveiled during the Board of Selectmen’s Feb. 27 meeting.

Attorney Jay Kimball submitted a citizens’ petition for the April 29 Town Meeting that seeks to rezone a parcel of land…

Published March 6, 2019

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The School Enrollment and Capacity Exploration Committee is looking to continue monitoring school enrollment and possibly work with an architect down the road, SECEC Chairman John Scenna told the Board of Selectmen on Feb. 27.

Scenna recalled that the SECEC, commonly referred to as the space…

Published March 6, 2019

Stephen Puleo discusses century-old North End tragedy

Published February 27, 2019

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The legacy of the Great Boston Molasses Flood continues to resonate 100 years later, author Stephen Puleo told a standing-room only crowd at the Meeting House on Feb. 20.

Puleo is the author of “Dark Tide: The Great Molasses…

Published February 27, 2019

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — A small group of ratepayers sent a message that was loud and clear to the Lynnfield Center Water District Board of Water Commissioners during the Special District Meeting on Monday night.

That message: Allocate more funds to the LCWD’s filter rebate program for ratepayers who have…

Published February 27, 2019

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — Fifty-one town employees earned six-figure salaries last year.

According to town documents supplied by Town Treasurer Christine O’Sullivan and based on employees’ W-2 forms, Superintendent of Schools Jane Tremblay was the highest paid employee in 2018 with $195,185.

Unlike neighboring Wakefield, which had no women make…

Ballot question in the works

Published February 20, 2019

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — It’s finally happening.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will be holding a public hearing on the proposed 25 percent design of the Wakefield-Lynnfield Rail Trail on Tuesday, March 19, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Lynnfield Middle School auditorium.

“The…