Wakefield News

BOSTON – State Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian (D-Melrose) joined the Massachusetts House of Representatives last week to pass a $1.8 billion supplemental budget that invests $885 million in public transportation and $417 million in public education, and funds several Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) deficiencies. The bill passed today also includes the tax conformity legislation filed by…

WAKEFIELD — Emmanuel Episcopal Church warmly invites the community to join in the holiest week of the Christian year — a week of ancient ritual, quiet contemplation, and profound joy.

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday services on March 29. The 8:00 a.m. Rite I service offers a traditional, contemplative entry into the week. At…

WAKEFIELD — Most people in the Boston area know there was a “Great Molasses Flood” in the early 1900s. It was tragic and destructive. But who knows where the molasses came from? And why was there so much that it caused damage? Was it really tragic or just messy?

In Stephen Puleo’s book…

WAKEFIELD — In honor of the Arts Collaborative of Wakefield’s fifteenth anniversary, organizers invite artists to join the spring art exhibition, Past Tense.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine Anne Porter once noted, “The past is never where you think you left it.” Similarly, writer John Banville stated, “The past beats inside me like a second heart…

WAKEFIELD — WCAT is now on the ROKU service making local content more available. Now you can watch on your ROKU enabled TV and through the ROKU phone app for iPhone and android.

To add the WCAT Roku app to your TV: log in to your ROKU account online. Go to the streaming store in…