Wakefield News

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — Over the next two weeks, the school board’s Policy Subcommittee, chaired by Gregory Liakos, will meet to continue discussions about guidelines as they apply to the various booster clubs at the high school.

Booster club members will be invited to the meeting to provide their input and the guidelines will…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — If the four-story, 130-unit Brightview Senior Living facility proposed for Crescent Street is approved, it will take approximately 16 to 18 months to build, according to Daniel Messier, senior vice president of PROCON, the construction management firm that Shelter Development would use to oversee the project.

While awaiting the Traffic…

By BOB BURGESS

WAKEFIELD — Snow began falling here, however lightly, early Monday afternoon. When it was over around 5:30 this morning — after…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Municipal budget season officially kicked off this week as the Board of Selectmen reviewed and approved 16 smaller departmental budgets for Fiscal Year 2016, which begins July, 1, 2015. This first batch of budgets included mainly Town Hall-based departments. All budgets are also reviewed by the Finance Committee before going…

By BOB BURGESS

WAKEFIELD — Schools were closed and motorists, for the most part, stayed off the…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Although Town Administrator Stephen P. Maio predicts that fiscal Year 2016 will be “a challenging year,” he also sees the town in “pretty solid shape,” with reserves that place Wakefield in the top 2 to 3 percent in the state in that regard.

In a sure sign that the municipal…

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By BOB BURGESS

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department had the most employees on the 2014 list of the town’s top wage earners with 18, down two from the previous year.

But the 17 police making the list took many of the top spots, thanks in part to private detail work.

In…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — By 1 p.m. yesterday, cars heading into Reading’s Market Basket parking lot snaked all the way out along Walkers Brook Drive.

Inside the store, food and non-grocery items — from milk and spring water to Ice Melt, flashlight batteries and shovels — were being grabbed from shelves and rung up…

BOSTON (AP) — Fiscal problems that have triggered a shortfall in the state’s current budget are likely to spill over to the next year’s spending plan, lawmakers and state officials were warned on Thursday.

The House and Senate Ways and Means committees, along with officials from Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration, held a revenue hearing at…