Wakefield News

By BOB BURGESS

WAKEFIELD — No women were among the 50 top paid town employees last year, a list that remains dominated by police, Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department workers and firefighters, many of whom accept a lot of overtime and extra shifts to get on it.

The top group’s gross compensation — which…

By MARK SARDELLA

COVID may be over, but we still face an even more dangerous epidemic: complacency.  

We saw it a few weeks ago, when a whopping 18 percent of Wakefield’s eligible voters supported building a new $274 million high school. It passed anyway because 75 percent of the town’s registered voters either didn’t know…

By MARK SARDELLA 

 WAKEFIELD — One stark difference emerged among the three candidates running for School Committee during this week’s debate at WCAT. Incumbent Kevin Piskadlo and candidate Pete Davis said they favored limiting parental involvement in educational decisions, while candidate Alexandra Makarewicz called for parents to have more say in how their children are…

By MARK SARDELLA 

 WAKEFIELD — Based on feedback from the Zoning Board of Appeals, the developer of a proposed apartment building on Broadway (the current site of MG Fitness) has reduced the number of units from 124 down to 106. The development team also reduced the size of the building and incorporated a number…