Wakefield News

By BOB BURGESS

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department had the most employees on the 2014 list of the town’s top wage earners with 18, down two from the previous year.

But the 17 police making the list took many of the top spots, thanks in part to private detail work.

In…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — By 1 p.m. yesterday, cars heading into Reading’s Market Basket parking lot snaked all the way out along Walkers Brook Drive.

Inside the store, food and non-grocery items — from milk and spring water to Ice Melt, flashlight batteries and shovels — were being grabbed from shelves and rung up…

BOSTON (AP) — Fiscal problems that have triggered a shortfall in the state’s current budget are likely to spill over to the next year’s spending plan, lawmakers and state officials were warned on Thursday.

The House and Senate Ways and Means committees, along with officials from Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration, held a revenue hearing at…

BOSTON – A move is on to have the proposed 2024 Boston Olympics’ fate decided at the polls.

Yesterday, United Independent Party Chairman Evan Falchuk filed paperwork with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance to create a ballot question group called the “People’s Vote Olympics Committee.”

In a press release, Olympics opponents say…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — On the heels of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech came a similar address from the leaders of Wakefield’s School Department — Superintendent of Schools Dr. Stephen K. Zrike and his Assistant Dr. Kim Smith.

The two went before approximately 100 people gathered at the Galvin Middle School…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — It seems that there can be no discussion of the proposal for a senior living facility on Crescent Street without some kind of friction surfacing and last night’s Historical Commission hearing was no exception.

As expected, the commission invoked its power to declare a six-month demolition delay with respect to…

The passing of another era has been marked with the removal of another landmark from the downtown area.

On Sunday, the giant projecting “Santoro’s” illuminated sign was removed from above what was one of the early submarine sandwich franchises in the Wakefield area.

Why didn’t the preservationists step in and protect this historic…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — When former Gov. Deval Patrick made his exit from the State House earlier this month, new Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker may have had an inkling that the $329 million mid-year budget deficit Patrick disclosed in November was an optimistic figure and if this is the case he would have been…

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Fire Department has announced that the annual open burning season started on Thursday, Jan. 15 and will continue until Friday, May 1.

Open burning is allowed each year by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and supervised by the local municipal fire departments.

In order to burn in the open during…