Wakefield News

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Two of the town’s largest Fiscal Year 2025 budgets got the Town Council’s endorsement last night. The Fire Department and Public Works budgets will eventually go before the voters at the April 29 Annual Town Meeting. 

Town Accountant Kevin Gill presented the numbers for the Fire Department budget, with Fire Chief…

WAKEFIELD — On Tuesday, March 12, members of the Wakefield Fire Department and Local 1478 will gather at the corner of Main and Albion streets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the line-of-duty death of Wakefield Fire Lieutenant Robert Sullivan.

On March 11, 1974, Box 35 was received at 10:55 p.m. for a fire in…

WAKEFIELD — On Saturday, April 6, 2024, State Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian will host her third annual Recycling & Sustainability Day for Wakefield residents, partnering with the Wakefield Department of Public Works, Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department, and organizations local to the Town and across the Commonwealth. This one-day event is a unique hub that…

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD — As the town continues to fight a pair of proposed Nahant Street 40B projects at the state level, the Zoning Board of Appeals discussed those cases and continued the hearings at its meeting last week. 

The…

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