Wakefield News

By MARK SARDELLA

School is back in session and it seems that a little adult education is also in order.

Nearly half of the town’s taxpayer-funded budget already goes to the schools. In the next few months, Wakefield taxpayers will be asked to vote for a new high school at a total cost of $220…

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – The Massachusetts School Building Authority paid for over half of eligible costs of the Galvin Middle School in 2012, but that will not be the case for the new Wakefield Memorial High School.

“Whatever your base rate is, you get about half of that,” Lynn Stapleton of Owner’s Project Managers…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The ZBA and the applicant for a Comprehensive Permit to develop a 38-unit affordable housing building at 596 North Ave. under Chapter 40B continue to make progress towards a decision on the project.
The development team has been meeting with a subcommittee of the ZBA in an effort to come…

WAKEFIELD — Save the date: Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. And be prepared to party!

If you attended last year’s Hispanic Heritage celebration on the Beebe Library plaza, you will remember that it was a magical event, a fiesta featuring wonderful music and dancing. Charly Duri electrified the crowd with music from…