Wakefield News

Published in the September 8, 2016 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Total student enrollment in the Wakefield Public Schools is down slightly, with 3,529 students enrolled system-wide for the 2016-2017 school year. That’s 37 fewer than last year’s total enrollment of 3,566.

But enrollment trends varied from school to school and within grade levels…

Published in the September 7, 2016 edition

Published in the September 7, 2016 edition

WAKEFIELD — In a news article published Friday in the Daily Item, it was reported that residents may notice a slight blip in the collection of recycling in the next couple of weeks as the Department of Public Works tries to make the best of a bad situation…

Published in the September 7, 2016 edition

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — With two candidates for State Representative vying in tomorrow’s Democrat State Primary Election for the chance to oppose incumbent Saugus Republican Donald Wong in the Nov. 8 general election, the Daily Item posed the same two questions to Jennifer…

Published in the September 6, 2016 edition.

Published in the September 6, 2016 edition.

WAKEFIELD — It has to end sometime.

The summer of 2016 — the hot, extremely dry and browned-out summer of 2016 — comes to a close for the town’s public school students tomorrow as they get ready to hit their tablet and desktop computers for another 182 days…

Published in the September 6, 2016 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

GLOUCESTER — Imagine, if you can, an oligarchic takeover of a state led by a “Palinesque” Manchurian candidate with only…

Published in the September 2, 2016 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Wakefield residents may notice a slight blip in the collection of recycling in the next couple of weeks as the Department of Public Works tries to make the best of a bad situation after their longtime recycling contractor suddenly stopped collections this week in all…

Published in the September 1, 2016 edition.

Published in the September 1, 2016 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — In a busy night of hearings, the Zoning Board of Appeals last week granted Special Permits, variances and other forms of zoning relief to residents and businesses with applications on the agenda.

The ZBA approved a request for a Special Permit that will allow Cori…

By MARK SARDELLA

You’ve got your work cut out for you this fall.

It’s called voting, and you’re going to have to do it not once, but twice.

I’m exhausted just thinking about it.

Hopefully you’ve recovered from voting in the local Special Election on July 19 and have spent the summer resting…

Published in the September 1, 2016 edition.

WAKEFIELD — A 60-year-old Stoneham woman was arrested at about 8:30 p.m. yesterday for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor (second offense) and leaving the scene of an accident with property damage following a rear-end crash at North Avenue and Richardson Street.

Police received a…