Wakefield News

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Finance Committee member Daniel Sherman says he will move to amend the Town Clerk’s budget by removing the $76,000 Town Clerk’s salary from the budget. The promise came last night as the FinCom reviewed its first round of 16 departmental budgets, including the Town Clerk’s.

Town Clerk Mary K. Galvin…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — Town Counsel Thomas Mullen has some serious problems with high school booster clubs and their current relationship to coaches.

The School Committee this week hosted members of various booster clubs supporting athletics and other extracurricular activities as guidelines are examined and finalized. The School Committee now is expected to vote…

WAKEFIELD — The Town of Wakefield’s Tax Collector, Kathleen Kelly, says it’s that time of year when the tax due date is just around the corner. Because Feb. 1 falls on a Sunday, the real estate and personal property taxes are due the next business day, Monday, Feb. 2.

“While we welcome you at the…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — Over the next two weeks, the school board’s Policy Subcommittee, chaired by Gregory Liakos, will meet to continue discussions about guidelines as they apply to the various booster clubs at the high school.

Booster club members will be invited to the meeting to provide their input and the guidelines will…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — If the four-story, 130-unit Brightview Senior Living facility proposed for Crescent Street is approved, it will take approximately 16 to 18 months to build, according to Daniel Messier, senior vice president of PROCON, the construction management firm that Shelter Development would use to oversee the project.

While awaiting the Traffic…

By BOB BURGESS

WAKEFIELD — Snow began falling here, however lightly, early Monday afternoon. When it was over around 5:30 this morning — after…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Municipal budget season officially kicked off this week as the Board of Selectmen reviewed and approved 16 smaller departmental budgets for Fiscal Year 2016, which begins July, 1, 2015. This first batch of budgets included mainly Town Hall-based departments. All budgets are also reviewed by the Finance Committee before going…

By BOB BURGESS

WAKEFIELD — Schools were closed and motorists, for the most part, stayed off the…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Although Town Administrator Stephen P. Maio predicts that fiscal Year 2016 will be “a challenging year,” he also sees the town in “pretty solid shape,” with reserves that place Wakefield in the top 2 to 3 percent in the state in that regard.

In a sure sign that the municipal…

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