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Almost ready for summer

THE BANDSTAND on the lower Common was surrounded by scaffolding this week as workers completed the final phase of a restoration. (Mark Sardella Photo)

 

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Local authors will have free books for young readers March 25

HERE ARE some of the local authors from the March 2024 event (left to right): Rebecca Caprara, Betsy Ellor, Susan Tan, Carol Gordon Ekster and Samanta Lewis.

WAKEFIELD — The Room to Write invites all youth, toddlers to teenagers, to stop by for a cup of hot cocoa, sweet treats, free books, local authors, art…

 

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Front Page: March 13, 2025

 

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Schools’ budget plan is lean

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – The proposed School Department budget for Fiscal Year 2026 is currently $55,425,161, a $3,105,462 or 5.94 percent increase over Fiscal 2025’s $52,319,699, which was a 5.5 percent increase over Fiscal 2024.

When grants, gifts and state and federal aid is factored in later, the numbers will be different.

“For the last six…

 

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Front Page: March 12, 2025

 

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Women in Wakefield: Catherine Titus Landers, A WWII nurse in France

AFTER SERVING HER country in World War II, Catherine Titus Landers raised her family in Greenwood.

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

Catherine was born in Melrose on August 14, 1920. She was the eldest of seven children of Kirk H. and Harriet E. (Chesley) Titus, Jr.

She graduated…

 

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Council OKs Fire Department budget

PRESENTING THE FY2026 Fire Department budget at this week’s Town Council meeting were (from left) Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Purcell, Fire Chief Michael Sullivan and Assistant Town Administrator/Chief Financial Officer Kevin Gill. (WCAT Screenshot)

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The Town Council this week approved the FY2026 operating budget for the Fire Department, but not…

 

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Front Page: March 11, 2025

 

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Wind bent

WHEN THERE WAS still a lot of ice on Lake Quannanpowitt, the wind howled and bent shoreline phragmites to its will two Sundays ago. (Frank Conte Photo)

 

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Council mulls process for choosing new TA 

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The Town Council last night continued to discuss the process that will lead to a new Town Administrator to replace Stephen P. Maio, who has announced that he will retire in July.

Maio reported that, per the Town Council’s instructions, he reached out to executive search firms to help with…

 

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Front Page: March 10, 2025

 

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Reunited Marines

 

TWO MARINES were surprisingly reunited after 60 years at the Corporal Scott Procopio, (USMC), Saugus American Legion Post 210 weekly Friday morning, at breakfast on March 7, 2025. Rick Pearson (left, Wakefield) met Carmen Fino (right, Saugus) for the first time since boot camp, Platoon 277, at Parris Island, South Carolina.

 

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