Wakefield News

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — Every penny counts.

It’s the mantra of every school Superintendent and Business Administrator in every city and town across the country, including Wakefield’s Dr. Stephen K. Zrike and Michael Pfifferling.

Since the economy crashed in 2008, school administrators have been on the lookout for new funding sources to keep themselves…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Ted Reinstein is best known as a longtime correspondent for WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle,” but he also maintains a strong love of live theater, having performed in regional theater in Boston, New York and Chicago.

Reinstein brought his booming broadcaster’s voice as well as a theatrical flair to The Savings Bank Theatre…

By MARK SARDELLA

There will very likely be a ballot question in 2016 seeking to legalize recreational marijuana in Massachusetts. We know this because the activists who in 2012 successfully perpetrated the “medical” marijuana scam are the same people who are now working on the 2016 ballot question to make pot available for…

WAKEFIELD — The company planning a significant natural gas pipeline cutting through northern Massachusetts and hooking up to an existing transmission line near Camp Curtis Guild has signed a deal with a group representing unionized construction workers.
The Massachusetts Building Trade Council announced this morning that a Memorandum of Understanding with Kinder Morgan requires the…

WAKEFIELD — Wakefield Memorial High School artists were awarded three Silver Keys and two Honorable Mentions in the Boston Globe Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Student artwork was judged against hundreds of talented students from all over the state.
Each year the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers partners with The…

WAKEFIELD — Temporary Town Clerk Rosemary Morgan announces that absentee ballots for the April 28 annual town election are now available in the Town Clerk’s Office for any registered voter who will be unable to vote at the polls on that day due to:
1. Absence from the town during normal polling hours of 7…

WAKEFIELD — It looks like the winter of 2014-15, one of the snowiest on record in Wakefield, will be the most expensive.

According to DPW Director Richard Stinson, bills are still coming in but the town will come “pretty close” to the $1,850,000 already allocated for snow and ice removal. Stinson said $1,803,000 had been…

WOBURN – A 63-year-old Montrose Avenue man died Saturday night after reportedly suffering a heart attack while driving on Eastern Avenue in Malden.

According to authorities, John Ruvido was traveling eastbound on Eastern Avenue in the vicinity of Sharon and Lisbon streets around 11 p.m. when he was stricken. His 2002 Ford Taurus crossed Eastern…

WAKEFIELD — Tickets are now available for the eighth annual Blossoms at the Beebe, a flower show, gala and auction to benefit the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library and the Wakefield Lynnfield Chamber of Commerce.

The Saturday evening, adult-only event will be held on April 25 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Lucius Beebe Memorial…