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Front Page: May 7, 2025

 

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Gators, start your engines!

THERE WAS A nice turnout for this year’s 12th Annual Gator Gallop 5K Fun Run/Walk on Sunday, May 4 at Lake Quannapowitt. The Gator Gallop benefits the Greenwood School PTO and Wakefield Educational Foundation (WEF). This 5K was a chip timed race around the lake. Those who registered received a free shirt.

 

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Town Meeting rejects new town fueling facility 

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD — A request for $2.6 million to fund the construction of a new fueling facility on Nahant Street for all town-owned vehicles to replace the aging and outdated fuel island at the DPW yard on North Avenue was defeated at Monday’s Town Meeting session by a wide margin. 

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Front Page: May 6, 2025

 

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Join the Hartshorne House Association

WAKEFIELD — The Col. James Hartshorne House Association invites you to join! The house, whose oldest section dates to around 1681, is the oldest public building in the Town of Wakefield.

Owned by the town since 1929, the National Register-listed property has been managed since the 1930s by the nonprofit Col. Hartshorne House Association, which…

 

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Town Meeting approves $134.5M FY26 budget

LAST NIGHT’S opening season of the 2025 Annual Town Meeting was sparsely attended. (WCAT Screenshot)

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD – With few in attendance and little discussion from the floor, Annual Town Meeting last night approved the $134,466,443 town operating budget for Fiscal Year 2026, which begins on July 1. 

Before getting down to business,…

 

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Front Page: May 5, 2025

 

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Assistant Superintendent Kara Mauro Honored with WEF Leadership Award

WEF CO-PRESIDENTS Cary Mazzone and Melissa Holmes; Assistant Superintendent Kara Mauro; and Superintendent Doug Lyons pose for a photo after surprising Mauro with the distinctive Leadership Award.

WAKEFIELD –– The Wakefield Educational Foundation WEF hosted its 29th annual Celebration of Learning ceremony before the district’s April vacation week. The uplifting event celebrates individuals and groups…

 

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Fall Town Meeting 2024

TM starts tonight

WAKEFIELD — When Annual Spring Town Meeting convenes tonight in the Galvin Middle School auditorium, participants well begin work on 19 warrant articles, including several asking to raise and appropriate money to operate municipal government and town schools for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m.

Article 1 is the…

 

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Front Page: May 2, 2025

 

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Walk this way

THE FLORAL WAY on Church St. shows its colors. (Mark Sardella Photo)

 

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WMHS has accreditation renewed

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – The New England Association of Schools and Colleges has renewed accreditation for Wakefield Memorial High School. “It speaks to the work everyone has done to get us to this point,” high school Principal Amy McLeod said at the School Committee meeting Tuesday, April 29. “It was a lot of work over the last two years,” a reference to…

 

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