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WAKEFIELD — The Grand Marshal for the July 4th Independence Day Parade in Wakefield will be retired Naval Commander Shelby Nikitin. Shelby is a 2000 graduate of Wakefield Memorial High and a 2004 graduate of the college of Holy…

WAKEFIELD — And just like that, there’s a big field of candidates hoping to sit on the Town Council.

Friday at 5 p.m. was the deadline to take out nomination papers for positions to be decided at the April 28 Town Election. Up until then, only Oak Street’s James T. Cerone expressed interest in running…

WAKEFIELD — The Capital Planning Committee this week approved just under $2 million in spending requests for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

On Tuesday committee members, after several weeks of meetings with department heads, unanimously approved $1,998,441 worth of requests ranging from police cars and 9 millimeter Glock service pistols to three garage doors…

By SAM DRYSDALE

State House News Service

BOSTON — Massachusetts continues to grapple with early literacy woes and school budget cuts but its students once again have topped the nation on Advanced Placement exams.

New data released Tuesday by the College Board show that 35.8% of Massachusetts public high school graduates scored a 3 or…