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School positions updated

Published in the November 22, 2017 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The School Committee last week updated the contract for elementary school assistant principals at the Woodville and Dolbeare Schools as well as the job description for a Level 2 technology specialist.

School Business Administrator Michael Pfifferling explained that the technology specialist was not a

 

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Helping PR hurricane victims one box at a time

Published in the November 22, 2017 edition.

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — It only takes one person to start a movement, and Wakefield resident Elizabeth “Liz” Stumpf started one not long after

ELIZABETH “LIZ” STUMPF

Puerto Rico was struck by Hurricane Maria, a monster storm that left behind destruction, hunger and darkness.

Stumpf, a hygienist

 

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Liquor license action taken

Published in the November 21, 2017 edition

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD – The Board of Selectmen took actions last week related to two restaurant liquor licenses for establishments headed in opposite directions.

They approved the modification of Caffe Italia’s liquor license to allow liquor to be served when the restaurant expands to a second floor.

 

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PHOTO: Season’s plantings

WORKERS FROM Norway Landscaping were installing miniature Christmas trees in the planters along the strip in the middle of Main Street in the Square this morning. (Mark Sardella Photo)

Published in the November 21, 2017 edition

 

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‘Coach Deke’ was one of a kind

Educator, coach, elite runner dead at 89

Editor’s note: Wakefield educator and longtime track and cross country coach John A. DiComandrea died Friday at the age of 89. Tributes to “Coach Deke,” a Hall of Famer, began to appear on social media almost immediately because in this town he was nothing short of a legend.

 

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Raked, bagged and ready for The Pit

THIS ELM STREET home is prepared for the DPW’s curbside collection of yard waste tomorrow, the final pickup of the year. You must have bags or small wrapped bundles at the curb by 7 a.m. Saturday. (Colleen Riley Photo)

Published in the November 17, 2017 edition.

 

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Decision close on Foundry St. project

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD – A decision on the proposal to build a five-story, 83-unit mid-rise apartment building at 69 Foundry St. is expected at the Dec. 13 meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals. The developer, Melanson Development Group, is seeking a Special Permit and a variance that would allow the project to be built on…

 

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Where’s the outrage?

By MARK SARDELLA

MARK SARDELLA

One thing that there’s no shortage of on social media is outrage. Democrats are outraged about Trump. Republicans are outraged about Hillary (and Trump).

And everybody’s outraged about underground transmission wires.

Whether on social media or real life, sometimes it seems that there isn’t enough outrage where it’s truly warranted…

 

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PHOTO: Ribbon cutting opens Greenwood medical building

A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY held Tuesday morning, Nov. 14 at the new Melrose-Wakefield Medical Building on Main Street in Greenwood drew business leaders, state and local politicians and employees of Hallmark Health System. Alan Macdonald, chief executive officer and president of Hallmark Health, is shown cutting the ribbon. The state-of-the-art, 27,000 square foot center will

 

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Walton work set to begin

Published in the November 15, 2017 edition

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD – Work on the Walton School renovation project is expected to begin in about a week, after the Permanent Building Committee (PBC) chose a general contractor Monday night.

School Director of Facilities and Transportation Maria Serrao told the School Committee last night that the

 

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Sparks fly at hearing on transmission line

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Despite a number of posted public meetings and several stories in this newspaper, many of those in attendance at last night’s public hearing at Wakefield Memorial High said that they had little or no advance knowledge of National Grid’s plan to run 3.5 miles of underground 345 KV electrical transmission cable through…

 

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Remembering a native son on Veterans Day

WHEN HE WAS inducted into the Wakefield Memorial High Alumni Hall of Fame in 2010, retired U.S. Army Gen. John R. Galvin (middle) met up with some old pals. From the left are Jim Scott, WHS Class of 1949, and men who graduated in the Class of 1947 with Galvin: Dick Bayrd, Ben Barsanti and

 

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