Wakefield News

WAKEFIELD — Public works administrators this week plan to finalize their list of projects for the fast-approaching 2015 construction season.

According to DPW Director Richard Stinson, he plans to meet tomorrow with his staff to decide what work will be done this year.

One significant early project will be the cold planing and repaving of…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — Sweetser Lecture Series ticket holders can look forward to a night spent with lady of letters Hallie Ephron when the three-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award takes the podium Wednesday night, April 8, inside The Savings Bank Theatre at Wakefield Memorial High School.

Ephron is the third and…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — It appears that calls for a skateboard park for the young people of Wakefield will finally be answered.

The Permanent Building Committee is looking to add a skateboard park to the grounds of the new Galvin Middle School. Last night, Public Works Director Richard Stinson and Town Engineer Michael Collins…

WAKEFIELD — The NAMM Foundation has recognized the Wakefield Public Schools for its outstanding commitment to music education with a Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) designation. Wakefield joins 388 districts across the country and one of 14 school districts in…

WAKEFIELD — If our seemingly endless winter has you feeling down, fear not, the first sign of spring is here! April vacation is coming and with it the annual Wakefield Independence Day Spring Carnival. The carnival will be in the Galvin Middle School parking lot, offering rides, food, fun and games for toddlers, teenagers and parents…

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Center Neighborhood Association’s annual Easter Egg Hunt planned for this Saturday, April 4, on the Lower Common has been postponed.

Organizers, with an eye on Saturday’s weather forecast, feel the ground conditions won’t be conducive to holding the event this weekend. They plan to hold the egg hunt on the rain…

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…