Wakefield News

Published in the October 12, 2017 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The School Department recently received notice that this year the state will reimburse special education costs through its Circuit Breaker program at a rate of 65 percent of the district’s net claim, down from 73 percent last year.

School Business Administrator Michael Pfifferling called the reduction “disheartening.” He told the committee Tuesday that had…

Published in the October 12, 2017 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

As every kid in America used to know, it was on Oct. 12, 1492 that Columbus discovered America. Most kids also learned the little poem that began, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”
I learned it in kindergarten at Miss Hope’s progressive…

Published in the October 11, 2017 edition

WAKEFIELD — Crews with the DPW and Spencer Contracting completed installing 250 feet of new water pipe this morning on Green Street after a section of a significant main let go early yesterday, eventually snarling traffic and causing some homeowners in the area to go most of the…

Published in the October 11, 2017 edition

Published in the October 10, 2017 edition.

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Published in the October 9, 2017 edition.

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Fire Department would like to remind the public that Fire Prevention Week is the week of October 8-14. Fire Prevention Week is sponsored by the National Fire Prevention Association and commemorates with a fire prevention theme the Great Chicago Fire of October 8-9, 1871,…

Published in the October 6, 2017 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The Conservation Commission wants to make a site visit to 69 Foundry St. where the Melanson Development Group is proposing to build a new five-story, 83-unit condominium complex on the former site of the Wakefield Corporation.

ConCom Chairman Frank J. Luciani Jr. also wants to…

Published in the October 5, 2017 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

LYNNFIELD — Big changes are coming to the former Donovan properties at the corner of Salem Street and Broadway (Route 1) in Lynnfield. The prime piece of commercial real estate consists of five parcels that have been purchased by Broadway Lynnfield Properties, LLC, which is…

By MARK SARDELLA

Published in the October 5, 2017 edition.

Anyone at Town Meeting on that night last May could see that it was going to be close. Personally, I thought the plastic bag ban was going to fail narrowly if put to a YES/NO vote.

But before it came to that, a…

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