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Ambulance contract renewed

November 18, 2022

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Cataldo Ambulance will continue to serve the town through 2025 after the Town Council renewed the ambulance company’s contract this week.

The Town’s Emergency Management Director, Tom Walsh, appeared before the Town Council along with Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer of Cataldo Ambulance and Rob White, Senior Director of Operations for…

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Keeping Lake Q clean

November 17, 2022

CLEANING UP THE LAKE with their bags and four-footed friend are Kaylee Bosco, Devan Hupprich and Tyler Bosco for the fall lake cleanup done every year in collaboration between the GMS Science Department and The Friends of Lake Quannapowitt.

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Election central

November 17, 2022

By MARK SARDELLA

For the past few years, we’ve been subjected to endless lectures informing us that voting is incredibly difficult and we must do everything in our power to make it easier for voters to participate in elections.

Anything less would be VOTER SUPPRESSION!

We’ve been told that democracy shouldn’t place even the slightest…

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School Committee gives Lyons high marks

November 17, 2022

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – School Committee members gave Superintendent Doug Lyons positive reviews in their evaluative remarks made publicly at their meeting on Tuesday. Criticisms were qualified as areas needing improvement as opposed to being poorly done.

“You led us incredibly well in a difficult time,” Committee chair Tom Markham told Lyons, referring to…

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Taxes going up

November 15, 2022

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — In what has become an annual ritual, the Town Council last night voted for the maximum shift of the property tax burden away from homeowners and onto the commercial tax base. Notwithstanding that action, the average homeowner in Wakefield will see his property tax bill rise by about 5.4 percent, or…

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It’s 4 o’clock on a Saturday

November 15, 2022

THE SETTING SUN above Lake Quannapowitt caused the photographer to write, “Winter is coming…and I cannot wait to ‘spring ahead.’” (Cathy Grassello Photo)

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Wakefield honors veterans

November 14, 2022

THE NEW sign for Veterans Field was unveiled on Friday with help from Bob Sardella from Sardella Sign & Display. The sign was donated by Wakefield resident Lois Benjamin and created by Sardella.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Wakefield residents turned out at two events on Friday morning as the town observed Veterans Day.

At…

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Water St. hearings near end

November 11, 2022

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Hearings on plans to upgrade a contaminated property near Nasella Playground appear to be winding down and a Zoning Board of Appeals decision on the mixed-use development proposed for 184 Water St. could come in the next couple of meetings.