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ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN featured in our current “Women in Wakefield” series was Elizabeth E. Boit, the prominent local businesswoman who, in partnership with Charles Winship, founded the Harvard Knitting Mills. Miss Boit was also a generous philanthropist, co-founding a home for elderly women on Bennett Street that would later be named in her…

 

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Plan calls for more affordable housing in Wakefield

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD – The Town Council received a status update last week on efforts to create a new Housing Production Plan for Wakefield.

A Housing Production Plan (HPP) is a community’s proactive strategy for planning and developing affordable housing and meeting its affordable housing needs in a manner consistent with the Chapter 40B…

 

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Front Page: March 19, 2025

 

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Double shooting on Lakeshore Drive

INVESTIGATORS SEARCH for clues following a double shooting on Lakeshore Drive last night. (Screenshot courtesy of NBC 10 Boston)

WAKEFIELD — Police are actively investigating a double shooting incident that occurred on Lakeshore Drive just before 8 p.m. last night. Two men were reportedly taken to area hospitals with serious gunshot wounds.

A heavy police…

 

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Mary Hodgman: Earliest owner of the Hartshorne House

THERE IS NO photo available of Mary (Kebbe) Hodgman but here is a photo of a portion of her home which she and her husband probably built.

This is part of a series. It was submitted by Nancy Bertrand.

Mary (Kebbe) Hodgman, 1640-1735, was probably the earliest owner of the Hartshorne House. Edward Kebbe emigrated…

 

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Front Page: March 18, 2025

 

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WMGLD announces annual Energy Art Contest winners

2025 ENERGY AWARENESS Art Contest winners and semi-finalists poster nearby.

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (WMGLD) recently recognized the winners and semifinalists of the annual WMGLD Energy Art Contest during assemblies at the schools and at a recent meeting of the Wakefield School Committee.

Seven winners and 32 semifinalists were selected…

 

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Home, condo sale prices keep on rising in Wakefield

WAKEFIELD — Through the first two months of 2025, the median price of a single-family home sold in town was up 11.3 percent from the same period last year.

In the most recent report from The Warren Group, a leading provider of national real estate and transaction data, 23 single-families were sold in January and…

 

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Front Page: March 17, 2025

 

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Council OK with ‘friendly 40B’ plan

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The Town Council last week agreed to participate in the “friendly 40B” development of a property at 484 and 504 Salem St. in Montrose. The 9.5-acre parcel in question sits behind the Dunkin’ Donuts on Salem Street.

The proposed 24 rental units would replace five rental units presently on the…

 

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Front Page: March 14, 2025

 

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MLLs on rise in local schools

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD — The number of Multi-Language Learners (MLLs), formerly English as a Second Language or English as a Learned Language students, has grown from 90 in Fiscal 2022 to 133 in Fiscal 2025, a 48 percent increase. 

“We’re seeing significant need,” Superintendent Doug Lyons said at the School Committee meeting Tuesday, March 11 as part of his Fiscal 2026 budget presentation. “Support…

 

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