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Middlesex County Baby Café hosts fundraiser for breastfeeding support

LUCIA JENKINS, left, with Baby Café participants. (Photo From Baby Café USA)

By ELLEN PUTNAM

MELROSE — On February 12, the Middlesex County Baby Café, which provides a free, drop-in breastfeeding support group in Melrose at the Church of the Nazarene, will be hosting a fundraiser at T’ahpas 529 to further their mission of helping…

 

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Size of Salem Street development to be reduced

THIS STRUCTURE at 158 Salem St. is on a parcel that is headed for redevelopment. (Mark Sardella Photo)

Zoning Board of Appeals notebook

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — An 18-unit residential complex proposed at 154 and 158 Salem St. will be reduced in size by up to three units. That’s what attorney Brian McGrail told…

 

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Front Page: January 27, 2025

 

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Tom Markham seeks reelection to SC

WAKEFIELD — A veteran School Committee member wants another term in office.

Water Street resident Thomas Markham took out nomination papers for reelection Friday morning to the School Committee. Three seats on the school board are up for election this spring.

Nomination papers for positions to be filled at the April 22 Town Election 

 

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Vanishing point 

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THIS ALBION STREET ALLEY in Wakefield is barely shoulder width. (Mark Sardella Photo)

 

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Front Page: January 24, 2025

 

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ZBA decision expected on West Water Street project 

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD – The Zoning Board of Appeals and attorney Brian McGrail tied up some loose ends in anticipation of a decision on a proposed 11-unit residential building at 33 Water St. at the board’s next meeting on Feb. 12. 

McGrail represented the applicants, Immacula Denis and Marvin St. Jean.  

McGrail reviewed some

 

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Enrichment program ‘Understanding Our Differences’ at Walton

PICTURED FROM THE left: WEF Director of WPS Relations Sue Worden; Walton Student Layla Davis; Walton PTO Co-President Julie Blackley; Walton Principal Brian Schmitt; and Walton student Aiden Alterio during a check presentation.

WAKEFIELD — This past Friday, Walton held an enrichment with Understanding Our Differences featuring the amazing Pam Fernandes and her loyal seeing-eye

 

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Front Page: January 23, 2025

 

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Throwback Thursday: Snow from 1948

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FOR TODAY’S throwback photo, we return once again to 1948, one of the snowiest winters on record in the Boston area. Nearly 90 inches of the white stuff fell that winter. When this photo was taken in January, plowed snow piles reached over halfway up the Main Street/Salem Street signpost. The mostly-covered “Not over 30,”

 

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School Committee weighing “Open campus” for high school

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – School Committee members had a positive reaction to a plan for limited open campus for High School seniors, presented by juniors Michael Barry and Anthony LaVita at their meeting Monday, Jan. 13.

“I like the idea,” chairman Stephen Ingalls said of a plan to allow seniors to be off campus if…

 

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