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By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Last night’s scheduled Town Council meeting was cancelled after a local citizen pointed out that the meeting had not been legally posted.

The meeting posting with agenda appeared on the Town’s web site last Thursday, June 18 at 11:13 a.m. The Massachusetts Open Meeting Law requires that, “[A] public…

BOSTON – State Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian (D-Melrose) joined the Massachusetts House of Representatives recently to pass a bill protecting residents’ access to library materials and guarding against politically motivated book bans in the Commonwealth’s school libraries and public libraries. The bill requires local policies to be developed using nationally recognized library standards and…

Published in the Wakefield Daily Item on June 19, 2026

BOSTON – Beginning today, a group of American Legion Family members will walk 250 miles continuously over four days from Provincetown to Boston and eventually…

BOSTON—State Senator Jason Lewis and State Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian joined their colleagues in the Massachusetts Legislature to pass a $1.56 billion supplemental budget primarily using Fair Share revenue from the state’s…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD – The town is now a member of “The Metro North Regional Housing Services Office” (MNRHSO), after the Town Council last week agreed to an intermunicipal agreement and the associated $15,000 annual membership fee.

The MNRHSO also includes the towns of Reading, North Reading, Wilmington, Saugus, and the City of Woburn.…

By NEIL ZOLOT

 WAKEFIELD — Principals briefed the School Committee on their progress in meeting goals in their acronym-loaded School Improvement Plans at a meeting Tuesday, June 9. “We focus on access points for all students and how we can use these things to benefit all students,” Greenwood Elementary School Principal Tiffany Back said during a joint…