Wakefield News

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Case dismissed.

That’s essentially what Judge Robert Ullmann said in his decision on the complaint filed by Robert Mitchell of Spaulding Street claiming that his rights were violated at the Nov. 17 Town Meeting when Town Moderator William H. Carroll refused to allow Mitchell’s motion to adjourn.

In…

(This is the second of three articles recapping 2014. Tomorrow will be dedicated to the construction and opening of the new $75 million Galvin Middle School.)

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(This is the first of a series.)

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — As we look back on 2014, we see a year of…

WAKEFIELD — A 17-year-old girl faced arraignment in Cambridge Juvenile Court today on charges of assaulting another girl with a dangerous weapon (knife) and threatening to kill her over the weekend.

Both girls are residents of a group home on Lafayette Street.

Sgt. Geoffrey Eriksen and Patrol Officers John Whaley and Michael Ryan were called…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — A pre-Christmas surprise was awaiting Wakefield Memorial High School senior Anna DeGregorio — a surprise she could not have imagined.

On Thursday, Dec. 11, a group of students from Wheaton College climbed aboard a bus from the Norton campus, wrapped gift box in hand and headed for Wakefield.

The surprise…

(Although this is fiction, Gail has used some local people as characters in the narrative.)

By GAIL LOWE

The old man could have been anyone’s grandfather. Stooped at the shoulder, hair long gone gray, wattle under his receding chin, he wore his age like an old, worn-out suit.

He stood at the bus stop on…

WAKEFIELD — A student at the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School on Hemlock Road went to School Resource Officer Michael Pietrantonio just after noontime yesterday and reported that someone had stolen his wallet, left on bleachers inside the school.

The boy’s wallet was later found, minus $50 in cash.

Police reviewed security footage of the…

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Superior Court Judge Robert Ullmann is expected to issue a decision this week regarding the complaint by Robert Mitchell of Spaulding Street that the town (specifically Town Moderator William Carroll) violated his rights and the Town Charter when Carroll refused to allow Mitchell’s motion to adjourn at the Nov. 17…

MEDFORD —The news that more than a dozen National Hockey League (NHL) players and referees were recently diagnosed with mumps has caught some headlines.

A once common childhood illness, mumps has been nearly eradicated since a vaccine was introduced in the late 1960s. So why the comeback now?

Dr. Edward Butler, chief academic officer and…

By GAIL LOWE

It was Norman Vincent Peale who gave the world 10 simple words about how to have a happy life:

• Expect little

• Give much

• Live simply

• Love much

• Forget self

Like many other people in my generation, my parents struggled to survive the Great Depression, took calculated risks…