Wakefield News

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The School Department will ask the town for a new roof at the Greenwood School next year, an item that comes with a $650,000 price tag. The School Committee last night reviewed the FY 2020 list of capital requests and discussed the list with top school administrators. Fiscal Year 2020…

Published in the November 13, 2018 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD – Local voters managed to complete the fall Regular Town Meeting in two nights, finishing up the 39-article warrant in a nearly four-hour session last Thursday night at Veterans Memorial Auditorium at the Galvin Middle School.

One of the more hotly debated articles on…

Published in the November 12, 2018 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The largest crowd in recent memory turned out yesterday to honor our veterans and they got to witness an outstanding and moving program in Veterans Memorial Auditorium at the Galvin Middle School.

Veterans Day evolved from Armistice Day, which celebrated the end of World…

Published in the November 9, 2018 edition.

WAKEFIELD — This centennial ceremony on Veterans Day will be held in the magnificent Veterans Memorial Auditorium at the Galvin Middle School.

The ceremony will open at 11 a.m. with the “Bells of Peace” by tolling an historic firefighters bell 21 times. This nationwide program is designed to…

Published in the November 9, 2018 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Town Meeting last night agreed to an increase in the number of signatures needed to send an article approved at Town Meeting to a townwide referendum election. But that number was less than the 5 percent of registered voters that the Charter Review…

Published November 7, 2018

WAKEFIELD — The town’s Beacon Hill delegation was reelected during yesterday’s important state balloting, which saw nearly 68 percent of Wakefield’s registered voters participate. Most of them also stuck up for community hospitals by overwhelmingly rejecting a question that would have limited the amount of patients nurses could see, and followed…