Wakefield News

WAKEFIELD – The Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (WMGLD), one of more than 2,000 locally-owned utilities in the country, will observe Public Power Week during the week of Oct. 4 through 10. This year marks the 29th annual Public Power Week celebration sponsored by the American Public Power Association (APPA) to celebrate the benefits…

Published in the October 2, 2015 edition.

Published in the October 2, 2015 edition.

WAKEFIELD — Principal Richard G. Metropolis of Wakefield Memorial High School announced that Akash Altman, Jessica Dubuque, Samantha Ross and Christopher Skeldon have been named Commended Students in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program.

A…

Published in the October 2, 2015 edition.

WAKEFIELD — A small quantity of the powerful painkiller fentanyl was reported missing from the VCA Animal Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Police were notified around 4:30 p.m. by a hospital manager that two vials of the synthetic opiate were missing from a storage area. Staff at the hospital will…

WAKEFIELD — Wakefield Co-operative Bank is collecting non-perishable food items to benefit Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry from Oct. 1 to 10. Donations can be dropped off at the bank’s Main Office, located at 342 Main St., Wakefield.

For more information, please contact Elaine Guaetta at 781-245-3890 or visit WIFP’s website www.wifoodpantry.org. All donations are greatly…

Published in the October 1, 2015 edition.

Published in the October 1, 2015 edition.

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Downtown revitalization was the focus of Wednesday’s Wakefield-Lynnfield Chamber of Commerce Breakfast at the Americal Civic Center, as featured speaker Peter Milano of the Massachusetts Office of Business Development talked about his office’s renewed focus on helping smaller businesses. Wakefield Town Administrator Stephen…

Published in the October 1, 2015 edition.

Everybody knows by now that there is a drug abuse crisis in the state, so naturally Massachusetts officials are doing everything in their power to make life easier for drug users and dealers and harder for the police.

God forbid we do anything that might inconvenience…

Published in the October 1, 2015 edition.

WAKEFIELD — On Wednesday, Oct. 7, students from Wakefield will join others from around the world to celebrate International Walk to School Day.

Approximately 400 students from the Dolbeare School alone will be walking and rolling to school on Wednesday. The event will begin with kids, and parents…

Published in the September 30, 2015 edition

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — “Wakefield is no different than any city or town in this country,” Police Chief Rick…

Published in the September 30, 2015 edition

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The Zoning Board of Appeals has two new members, after the Board of Selectmen this week appointed Francis X. Hayes of 2 Dell Ave. and Thomas J. Lucey of 142 Elm St. as alternate members.
One of the appointments will replace Dominic Casamassima…

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