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Town Council OK’s first budgets

January 10, 2023

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The town’s budgeting process for Fiscal Year 2024 got underway in earnest last night as the Town Council approved the first set of departmental budgets.

Nearly all departmental budgets are voted by the Town Council and are also scrutinized by the Finance Committee before going before the voters at Annual…

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January 9, 2023

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THE FULL MOON last week was the Wolf Moon, named because wolves were more likely to be heard howling this time of the year due to hunger. It rose above part of the Soldiers & Sailors Monument on the Veterans Memorial Common Friday. (Paola Cantini Photo)

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Author Russell Banks dies

January 9, 2023

Member of WHS Class of 1958

NEW YORK (AP) — Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter,”…

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Flyover

January 6, 2023

SEAN KELLY took this photograph Monday of the Mass National Guard F-15s flying over Greenwood in preparation for the Winter Classic at Fenway Park.

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January 6, 2023

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Councilors open new year Monday

January 6, 2023

WAKEFIELD — The Town Council will kick off 2023 Monday night with the expected approval to place an article on the January 28 Special Town Meeting warrant dealing with the construction of a new $274 million Wakefield Memorial High School.

That Saturday Special Town Meeting would begin at 9 a.m. in the high school field…

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Out of the darkness

January 5, 2023

A FLOCK OF SWANS was seen on Crystal Lake. (Cathy Grassello Photo)

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Moulton gets money for Boys & Girls Clubs

January 5, 2023

WAKEFIELD — Congressman Seth Moulton has secured $16,863,400 in funding for 14 Community Funding Projects across the Sixth District in FY2023, one of which involves expanding the local Boys & Girls Clubs.

Moulton was able to get $900,000 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Stoneham and Wakefield for its Wakefield and Saugus expansions. The Boys…