Wakefield News

Published in the May 27, 2016 edition.

WAKEFIELD — The town has a long tradition of honoring those who have fought to defend our country and our freedoms. That tradition continues Monday.

At 9 a.m., the Wakefield Police Relief Association will host a memorial service at the Public Safety Building’s Community Room. A list will…

Published in the May 27, 2016 edition.

WAKEFIELD — All Peter Duston wanted, back when he was 11 or 12, was to be the bugler for Lynnfield’s Boy Scout Troop 51.

So he took private trumpet lessons with substitute teacher Gerald Scott, a Wakefield musician Peter remembers to this day.

Duston would become the bugler…

Published in the May 26, 2016 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD —The Wakefield Farmers Market will be back for another year after the Board of Selectmen formally renewed its contract this week. But the board deferred a decision on a request from the market management to place a permanent structure or storage unit on Hall Park.

The Wakefield Farmers Market’s eighth season…

Published in the May 26, 2016 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

As of this writing, we have eight people (and counting) running for Selectman in the July 19 Special Election to fill the nine months left on former Selectman Betsy Sheeran’s term.

This sudden surge of interest in public service is truly a wonderful…

Published in the May 25, 2016 edition

Wakefield native and retired four star Army General John Rogers Galvin was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, May 12, and…

Published in the May 24, 2016 edition.

WAKEFIELD — For a Special Election some claimed the town didn’t need, it certainly is drawing a crowd.

Yesterday, a seventh candidate emerged for a vacant seat on the Board of Selectmen when Shaun S. Margerison, 171 Salem St., chairman of the town’s Capital Planning Committee, took out…

Published in the May 24, 2016 edition.

WAKEFIELD – Single-family home sales in Wakefield were even better than an excellent showing across the state in April, another sign that the housing market is on the move again.

Single-family home sales in Massachusetts rose by 34.7 percent in April, according to a new report from The…

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Published in the May 23, 2016 edition.

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — Now in its 85th year, the Wakefield Garden Club has hosted Floral Way Festival every May, and this year was…

WAKEFIELD — In addition to routine calls over the weekend, police responded to reports concerning the theft of two diamond rings, a break into a bedroom inside an apartment on Water Street, a hit-and-run accident on Green Street and vandalism to a vehicle parked on Murray Street.

On Friday at about 11:30 a.m. a woman…