Wakefield News

WAKEFIELD — Wakefield Memorial High School artists were awarded three Silver Keys and two Honorable Mentions in the Boston Globe Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Student artwork was judged against hundreds of talented students from all over the state.
Each year the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers partners with The…

WAKEFIELD — Temporary Town Clerk Rosemary Morgan announces that absentee ballots for the April 28 annual town election are now available in the Town Clerk’s Office for any registered voter who will be unable to vote at the polls on that day due to:
1. Absence from the town during normal polling hours of 7…

WAKEFIELD — It looks like the winter of 2014-15, one of the snowiest on record in Wakefield, will be the most expensive.

According to DPW Director Richard Stinson, bills are still coming in but the town will come “pretty close” to the $1,850,000 already allocated for snow and ice removal. Stinson said $1,803,000 had been…

WOBURN – A 63-year-old Montrose Avenue man died Saturday night after reportedly suffering a heart attack while driving on Eastern Avenue in Malden.

According to authorities, John Ruvido was traveling eastbound on Eastern Avenue in the vicinity of Sharon and Lisbon streets around 11 p.m. when he was stricken. His 2002 Ford Taurus crossed Eastern…

WAKEFIELD — Tickets are now available for the eighth annual Blossoms at the Beebe, a flower show, gala and auction to benefit the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library and the Wakefield Lynnfield Chamber of Commerce.

The Saturday evening, adult-only event will be held on April 25 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Lucius Beebe Memorial…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Police unions have agreed to three-year contracts with the town covering the period from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2017. Town Administrator Stephen P. Maio announced the deal at last Monday’s meeting of the Board of Selectmen.

Maio said that the terms of the deal were the…

WAKEFIELD — A 22-year-old Peabody driver faced several charges this morning after she took an early righthand turn at the bottom of Forest Street and got hung up on MBTA commuter rail tracks in Greenwood early Sunday morning.

Natasha R. Farren, 1 Griffin Rd., Peabody was traveling east on Forest Street around 12:40 a.m. when…

WAKEFIELD — The Scholarship Foundation of Wakefield, Inc. is pleased to announce the establishment of the Bisacre Family Scholarship Fund. This fund was established in loving memory of Ethel Lillian Bisacre.

Ethel was born on July 28, 1937 and was a life-long resident of Wakefield until her death on March 19, 2015. She was a…

Firefighters extinguished a small fire in a second floor bathroom of a duplex at 40 Lake St. yesterday afternoon.

A plumber working on some copper fittings inadvertently let some fire get into a chase and notified the Fire Department at 1:45 p.m. Firefighters were on scene for about a half hour, opening up walls and…