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Front Page: June 3, 2025

 

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Character Dress-Up Day

KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS at the Dolbeare School recently celebrated Character Dress-Up Day along with their students. Teachers and students dress up like their favorite book characters and then shared why each book is their favorite. From the left are Alexandra Algiers, Peggy Hagopian, Beth Ortega, Janice Jones, Kim Smith, Cathy Wensley and Michelle Wildman. Missing is Jennifer Gallant.

 

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Eastern Bank offices coming to Wakefield

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Eastern Bank is moving its north of Boston corporate offices to Wakefield and will soon occupy the building at 601 Edgewater Drive. In late 2024, Eastern Bank signed a lease agreement for the 51,751-square-foot office building. 

Last week, the Wakefield Zoning Board of Appeals granted a variance that will allow…

 

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Front Page: June 2, 2025

 

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Town holds Civil War monument rededication ceremony

THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT on the Common has been beautifully refurbished and was rededicated during a ceremony Saturday. (Robert Pushkar Photos)

We must never forget

By NEIL ZOLOT

 WAKEFIELD — Early morning rains subsided and afternoon rain was light and intermittent for the rededication of the Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War

 

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Marine Corps veteran Mary O’Leary celebrates 103rd birthday

MARY O’LEARY had some birthday cake during a party held in Reading recently.

READING — Over Memorial Day weekend, Mary O’Leary, a proud U.S. Marine Corps veteran and native of Wakefield, celebrated her 103rd birthday surrounded by family, friends and fellow residents and associates at The Residence at Pearl Street in Reading.

The celebration honored…

 

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Front Page: May 30, 2025

 

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Rededication Day tomorrow rain or shine

WAKEFIELD — Tomorrow the town will rededicate the 1902 Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the Veterans Memorial Common.

An early afternoon slate of activities is planned, beginning at 12 noon, on and near the Common. People can visit the Hartshorne House on Church Street and Prospect Street’s Wakefield History Museum; they can engage with Civil…

 

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Big recycling event set for June 14

WAKEFIELD — State Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian will host her 4th annual Recycling & Sustainability Day for the Town of Wakefield, Saturday June 14, 9 a.m. to 12 noon at Wakefield Memorial High School. In partnership with the Wakefield Department of Public Works, Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department, and organizations local to the town, this…

 

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WEF honors the Woodville

WOODVILLE CONGRATULATES WEF student award recipients, fourth-graders pictured from the left front: Audrey Sessions, Declan Burns, Xavier Silva Rebelo, Isabel Sofie Sapuay, Ella Monaco, Rosie White, Benjamin McDonald, Declan Holden together pictured from the left back: Principal Matthew Carter, WEF Co-Presidents Cary Mazzone and Melissa Holmes and Superintendent Doug Lyons.

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Educational…

 

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Front Page: May 29, 2025

 

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Remembering Michael Salvatore

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Directors of the Hartshorne House deserve our praise for a lot of reasons, but a recent move to honor one of their own exemplified their goodness.

The directors recently dedicated a very special remembrance for the late Michael Salvatore, a two-time past president of the Hartshorne House Association and longtime director, who lost

 

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