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Town Meeting wraps up business

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD – Annual Town Meeting wrapped up business Thursday night as voters in attendance took two hours to handle the five articles left over from Monday’s opening session. 

Article 19, the final article on the warrant, prompted the evening’s most contentious discussion over its aims to force Wakefield to boycott Israel and

 

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Front Page: May 9, 2025

 

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WEF honors Wakefield Memorial High School students and staff

WMHS STUDENTS WERE honored with WEF Excellence in Education awards on April 16. Pictured from left: WEF Co-Presidents Cary Mazzone and Melissa Holmes; WMHS Principal Amy McLeod; students Jhalak Patel, Anthony LaVita, Michael Vito Barry, Alice Getty, Janiesa Andrade, Samuel Alexander Sun-Ting Carpenter and Liam Mertens; with Superintendent Doug Lyons.

WAKEFIELD — Wakefield Memorial High…

 

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Special election deadlines set

WAKEFIELD — A special election will be held June 24 to fill a vacant seat on the Town Council. Candidates must submit nomination papers by May 20.

So far, Emerson Street’s Samuel Hockenbury and Gerard Lehman of Fox Road have expressed an interest in the position, having taken out nomination papers April 29 and April…

 

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Public invited to see renovated Sr. Center

WAKEFIELD — On Wednesday, May 14, the community is invited to an Open House at the McCarthy Senior Center as staff unveil the newly renovated second and third floors to the public.  

All are welcome to gather from 12 to 2 p.m. for tours and a performance by the Council on Aging’s POMtastics dance…

 

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Front Page: May 8, 2025

 

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Town Meeting resumes tonight

By MARK SARDELLA

WAKEFIELD — Town Meeting resumes tonight at 7 p.m. in the Galvin Middle School auditorium with five articles remaining on the warrant. Monday’s opening session completed work on articles 1-14 before adjourning at about 10:30 p.m. 

After approving the FY2026 town budget under Article 1, Monday’s Town Meeting session considered the…

 

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Throwback Thursday 1940

THIS PHOTO shows the Wakefield Municipal Light Plant on North Avenue in 1940. The cylindrical steel frame structure behind the building supported the telescopic gas holder (tank) that stored natural gas. Telescopic holders, typically used in gas distribution systems, emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They consist of multiple cylindrical sections that

 

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Front Page: May 7, 2025

 

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Gators, start your engines!

THERE WAS A nice turnout for this year’s 12th Annual Gator Gallop 5K Fun Run/Walk on Sunday, May 4 at Lake Quannapowitt. The Gator Gallop benefits the Greenwood School PTO and Wakefield Educational Foundation (WEF). This 5K was a chip timed race around the lake. Those who registered received a free shirt.

 

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Town Meeting rejects new town fueling facility 

By MARK SARDELLA 

WAKEFIELD — A request for $2.6 million to fund the construction of a new fueling facility on Nahant Street for all town-owned vehicles to replace the aging and outdated fuel island at the DPW yard on North Avenue was defeated at Monday’s Town Meeting session by a wide margin. 

Article 11 called

 

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