Archive for February, 2017
My War on Winter
The older I get, the more I hate winter. I hate Old Man Winter almost as much as CNN hates the President of the United States. I have no proof, but I’m convinced that winter is a Russian plot to turn the United States into Siberia.
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Tags: battle, birds, blizzard, carbon, cars, Climate Change, CNN, disrupt, election, Global Warming, Humor, hybrid car, Mark Sardella, Mazda, normalize, oil, Opinion, petroleum, President Donald Trump, Prius, recount, Resistance, Russians, science, shovel, Siberia fossil fuels, snow, solar power, storm, Wakefield Daily Item, war, winter
Parking garage redux
So you thought that the idea of a parking garage on the town-owned lot between and behind the Cooperative Bank and Jeffrey’s Package Store was as dead as Parke Snow’s or The Armory? Think again. The Selectmen at their last meeting talked about reviving the possibility, noting that parking hasn’t gotten any easier in the […]
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Tags: Assisted Living, Brightview Senior Living, building, construction, downtown, elderly, housing, Jeffrey's Package Store, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, memory care, Opinion, parking, parking grarage, Politics, Shelter Development, The Savings Bank, Wakefield Co-operative Bank, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA
157 candles
Today would be Curtis Guild’s birthday. Who the hell is Curtis Guild, you ask? How soon we forget. He was a three-term Massachusetts governor, from 1906 to 1909. If you’ve never heard the name Curtis Guild, apparently you’re so confused by the striping on the Route 129 Rotary that you’ve never taken a right onto […]
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Tags: blueblood, Camp Curtis Guild, Charlie Baker, Cuba, Curtis Guild Jr., demonstration, governor, guns, Harvard College, Harvard Crimson, Harvard Rifle Corps, Massachusetts, National Guard, pink pussy hat, protest, Russia, safety pin, Spanish American War, Theodore Roosevelt, white privilege, William Howard Taft, Yankee