Wakefield News

WAKEFIELD — Mystic Valley Elder Services held an event on April 29 to commemorate five decades of partnership with the Town of Wakefield and its Council on Aging.

To mark its 50th anniversary this year, Mystic…

WAKEFIELD – The Scholarship Foundation of Wakefield, Inc. (TSF) is announcing the establishment of the Carmelo, Francesca & Concettina Rizza Memorial Family Fund. Beginning in June 2026, a scholarship will be…

WAKEFIELD — Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth (MPY) hosted a virtual seminar for educators, “Tier 1 Practices to Prevent Emotional Dysregulation and Behavioral Crisis,” on Tuesday, May 5.

Over 530 educators, support staff and school administrators from across Massachusetts attended the seminar and learned how the state’s updated timeout and seclusion regulations will limit the conditions…

WAKEFIELD — The Public Works Department will be performing their spring curbside yard waste collection this Saturday, May 16. Please place all barrels and biodegradable paper bags with grass, leaves, and brush at the curb prior to 7 a.m.; plastic bags cannot be collected. Branches should be cut into three-foot lengths or less and tied…

WAKEFIELD — State Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian, the 2025 Keep Massachusetts Beautiful Environmental Legislator of the Year, will host her Fifth annual Recycling & Sustainability Day for the Town of Wakefield on Saturday, May 30, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., at Wakefield High School. In partnership with the Wakefield Department of Public Works, Wakefield Municipal Gas…

There will always be hard decisions to make when town officials put together an annual operating budget. By many accounts, those decisions here in Wakefield will get more difficult in the immediate years to come.

What do you sacrifice first? Badly needed road repairs? Public safety positions? Teachers? School administrators?

We don’t have…

BOSTON — On April 28, at the Boston Celtics home playoff game against the Philadelphia…

WAKEFIELD — The Emmanuel Episcopal Church invites the community to attend its May Soul Supper on Thursday, May 14, featuring a thoughtful and timely conversation titled “War and Peace in Jewish and Zionist Thought.”

The evening includes a free community dinner from 6 to 6:45 p.m., offering space for fellowship and connection. This is followed…

WAKEFIELD — Police are looking for a 30-year-old woman who went missing from a local group home yesterday and has not returned.

A supervisor for the Lafayette Street group home contacted police at about 9:30 last night and reported that a new client had left the home earlier in the day and had…