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By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – Town Meeting passed a $127,850,159 budget for Fiscal 2025 Monday night in the Galvin Middle School auditorium. Town Administrator Steve Maio said it was put together under the assumptions less aid would be forthcoming from the state and with pandemic-related grants expiring and those funds being replaced by local dollars.

As is customary,…

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – You can add Wakefield to the short list of communities that don’t like being told what to do by the state of Massachusetts when it comes to zoning.

Last night, Town Meeting rejected three proposals for a multi-family housing zone by right to comply with a state mandate in communities…

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD — Zoning-related articles are expected to generate the most interest at the 2024 Annual Town Meeting, which gets underway tonight at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at the Galvin Middle School. In all, voters will face a Town Meeting warrant with 23 articles. 

Articles 17 and 18 relate to the town’s…

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Educational Foundation hosted its 28th annual Celebration of Learning on Wednesday, April 10. WEF celebrated students, staff…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — An Open Meeting Law complaint has been filed against the town with respect to Monday’s scheduled Annual Town Meeting.  

The complaint, filed by Scot McCauley of Walden Road, claims that the town “violated Open Meeting Laws as well as legal posting requirements for the Town Meeting Warrant scheduled for April…

WAKEFIELD — In a rebuke of the ever more progressive wing of the Democratic Town Committee, former Selectman John F. Carney squeaked out a victory in yesterday’s Town Election, finishing second in the three-way contest for two open seats on the Town Council.

On a bright, sunny day, just 11 percent of the town’s 20,012…