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Published in the Wakefield Daily Item on June 26, 2026

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WOBURN — Wakefield Food Pantry (WFP) has been selected as one of 150 nonprofits to receive funding through Cummings Foundation’s…

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD — The School Committee approved a transfer of $269,488.69 for Fiscal Year 2026 between food services accounts to cover health and life insurance costs of $122,540.54, retirement costs of $112,307, workers compensation ($24,072.04) and employer Medicare ($10,569.11), at their meeting Tuesday, June 23.

These chargebacks to the School Department to cover…

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…