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Front Page: November 15, 2023

 

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Parking on Main St. along Lake will remain

 

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — By a narrow 4-3 margin, the Town Council voted this week to preserve all parking along the Main Street side of Lake Quannapowitt. The vote came at the end of a lengthy discussion of the town’s draft “Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan.”

The plan called for the removal of parking…

 

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Front Page: November 14, 2023

 

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Wakefield Town Hall 2023 November

New tax rate set

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD — For the first time in several years, the property tax rate will not be increasing by the full 2.5 percent allowed under Proposition 2½, but the difference is slight. The increase approved by the Town Council last night was 2.38 percent.   

Director of Assessments Victor Santaniello appeared before the Town…

 

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Front Page: November 13, 2023

 

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Veterans thanked for their service to our country

JULIE SCOTT meets with Congressman Seth Moulton Saturday at the town’s Veterans Day ceremony at the Galvin Middle School. Moulton spoke of the sacrifices veterans’ families make. (Neil Zolot Photo)

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – Two Korean War veterans — retired Air Force Staff Sergeant Chester Lee and retired Army Technical Sergeant Martin Venus…

 

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Front Page: November 10, 2023

 

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Veterans Day service tomorrow

WAKEFIELD — The public is invited to celebrate Veterans Day at the Galvin Middle School on Saturday, November 11, at 11 a.m. This year’s theme is “Service.”

Music was the inspiration for Gene Russell’s award-winning poster pictured here. Russell played the bugle since he was a boy. “Bugle calls are not songs, and they do…

 

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Marching band takes NESBA crown by storm

Earns spot in finals at Bands of America Competition in NJ 

THE WARRIOR MARCHING BAND peaked at just the right time this season.

By LAUREN TULLOCH

WAKEFIELD — For the first time since 2012, the Wakefield Warrior Marching Band won the New England Scholastic Band Association (NESBA) Championships, earning five caption awards for Division 5…

 

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Front Page: November 9, 2023

 

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MassDEP say Voke project can proceed

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has overturned the Wakefield Conservation Commission’s denial of Northeast Metro Tech’s plan to build a new vocational school on a wooded parcel across Hemlock Road from the current school. 

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Order of Operations birthday!

ST. JOE’S STUDENTS participated in the Order of Operations. TOP L-R: Parker Wright, Christian Guild, Krista Chankhour, Natalie Ogata, Naomi Tarantino, Cora Cooper and Atticus Day; BOTTOM L-R: Luigi Magno, Johny Saroufim, Sarah HIckey, Genevieve Sechrist, Micheal Leonard, Christian Ponzo, Brandon Goodrich, Alexander Moccia and Ryan McInnis.

WAKEFIELD — Saint Joseph School’s 6th graders used their…

 

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