Wakefield News

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — A pre-Christmas surprise was awaiting Wakefield Memorial High School senior Anna DeGregorio — a surprise she could not have imagined.

On Thursday, Dec. 11, a group of students from Wheaton College climbed aboard a bus from the Norton campus, wrapped gift box in hand and headed for Wakefield.

The surprise…

(Although this is fiction, Gail has used some local people as characters in the narrative.)

By GAIL LOWE

The old man could have been anyone’s grandfather. Stooped at the shoulder, hair long gone gray, wattle under his receding chin, he wore his age like an old, worn-out suit.

He stood at the bus stop on…

WAKEFIELD — A student at the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School on Hemlock Road went to School Resource Officer Michael Pietrantonio just after noontime yesterday and reported that someone had stolen his wallet, left on bleachers inside the school.

The boy’s wallet was later found, minus $50 in cash.

Police reviewed security footage of the…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Superior Court Judge Robert Ullmann is expected to issue a decision this week regarding the complaint by Robert Mitchell of Spaulding Street that the town (specifically Town Moderator William Carroll) violated his rights and the Town Charter when Carroll refused to allow Mitchell’s motion to adjourn at the Nov. 17…

MEDFORD —The news that more than a dozen National Hockey League (NHL) players and referees were recently diagnosed with mumps has caught some headlines.

A once common childhood illness, mumps has been nearly eradicated since a vaccine was introduced in the late 1960s. So why the comeback now?

Dr. Edward Butler, chief academic officer and…

By GAIL LOWE

It was Norman Vincent Peale who gave the world 10 simple words about how to have a happy life:

• Expect little

• Give much

• Live simply

• Love much

• Forget self

Like many other people in my generation, my parents struggled to survive the Great Depression, took calculated risks…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — In response to the assassination of two New York City Police Department officers on Saturday afternoon while they were seated in a cruiser in Brooklyn, Wakefield Police Chief Rick Smith said he and his entire department were “very sad and disturbed” by the officers’ deaths.

“Our thoughts and prayers go…

(The following was written by Lester Yee, coach of the “We Are Robo” team from Wakefield.)

WAKEFIELD — Five years in the making, the “We are Robo” First Lego League (FLL) team won the Massachusetts FLL State Championship on Saturday, Dec. 20, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute…

BOSTON – A Greenwood man and past speaker at the town’s Veterans’ Day observances pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing $174,000 in benefits paid to him based upon falsified Vietnam War service records.

Albert L. Seely, 67, of 1251 Main St., pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel, according…