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Rare Disease Focus of Documentary

18Jun14

Filmmakers Michaela O’Brien & Melissa Langer examine EB in Bogota, Colombia While working as a documentary photographer in 2011, Michaela O’Brien visited an orphanage in Bogota, Colombia. While there, the 2004 Wakefield High School graduate met two girls, Nixa and her older sister Nury. Both girls were afflicted with a rare, genetic skin disease called […]

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Tags: Bogota, Colombia, documentary, EB, Epidermolysis Bullosa, film, In Crystal Skin, Mark Sardella, Melissa Langer, Michaela O'Brien, rare diseases, Wakefield MA

Wakefield Honors Its Fallen Heroes

28May14

Memorial Day 2014 in Wakefield, Massachusetts As sun and clouds waged a day-long battle overhead, hundreds of residents turned out yesterday for local ceremonies honoring those who gave their lives in defense of America. “The freedoms we do enjoy,” keynote speaker Victor Santaniello told the crowd at the West Side Social Club’s morning program on […]

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Tags: American Legion, Ann Santos, Anthony Velardo, Brian Falvey, Massachusetts, Memorial Day, Rep. Donald Wong, Rep. Paul Brodeur, Sen. Jason Lewis, Thomas Lyons, veterans, Victor Santaniello, Vietnam War, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, West Side Social Club

No Parking: Pot Zone

09May14

Over 900 Wakefield voters showed up at Monday’s opening Annual Town Meeting session to vote on a $3 million parking garage. Thursday night’s continued session opened with Article 3, the $79 million FY 2015 town budget. Math has never been my strong suit, so my fitness to be a Town Meeting teller would probably be […]

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Tags: Assisted Living, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, medical marijuana, parking garage, Town Meeting, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA

William Martin’s talk to focus on Civil War Washington, DC

03May14

May 6 Sweetser Lecture in Wakefield, MA “As a kid, I was drawn to big stories on broad canvasses,” says historical novelist William Martin, who will be at The Savings Bank Theater on Tuesday, May 6 to deliver the final Sweetser Lecture of the season. His talk will focus on Civil War Washington as depicted […]

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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, book, books, Boston, Civil War, D.C., fiction history, historical, Lincoln Letter, MA, Mark Sardella, novelist, Sweetser Lecture, Wakefield, Wakefield Daily Item, Washington, William Martin, writer

Dan Shaughnessy Shares Stories from a Life in Sports

01May14

Boston Globe sports columnist delivers Sweetser Lecture The world of Boston sports came to Wakefield, MA this week in the person of longtime Boston Globe sportswriter and columnist Dan Shaughnessy, who entertained the Sweetser lecture audience with colorful and at times hilarious stories from his career interacting with some of the biggest sports figures of […]

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Tags: Boston, Boston Globe, Dan Shaughnessy, David Ortiz, Fenway Park, Jon Lester, Manny Ramirez, Mark Sardella, Red Sox, sports, Ted Williams, Terry Francona, The Savings Bank Theater, Wakefield MA

Dan Shaughnessy Looks Forward to Sweetser Lecture

25Apr14

Boston Globe Sports Columnist Speaks in Wakefield Tuesday, April 29 His book, Francona: the Red Sox Years just came out in paperback, but Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy plans to talk about the Red Sox and the whole range of Boston sports when comes to Wakefield next Tuesday, April 29 to deliver the second […]

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Tags: baseball, Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, columnist, Dan Shaughnessy, John Farrell, Mark Sardella, sports, sportswriter, Sweetser Lecture Series, Terry Francona, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA

Information Pleas

25Apr14

Call it the calm before the storm. The fiery debate that raged in Wakefield, MA over the downtown parking garage issue up to the April 1 special election has of late been reduced to glowing embers. But it is beginning to heat up again in anticipation of the May 5 Annual Town Meeting. The hot […]

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Tags: Assisted Living, election, free press, Galvin Middle School, information, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, parking garage, Town Meeting, vote, voter apathy, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, William Carroll

Angels in America Part 1 – Millenium Approaches

24Apr14

On stage at The Umbrella in Concord, MA through May 4 I did not see the 2008 Elliot Award-winning Boston Theatre Works production of Angels in America directed by Nancy Curran Willis. In fact, I had never seen Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play at all. So I headed to Concord, MA for the Umbrella Community […]

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Tags: AIDS, Alex Savitzky, Angels in America, Brian Boruta, Concord MA, Damon Singletary, David Berti, Emily Rosser, Jennifer Shea, Kendall Hodder, Kevin Tobias Brown, Liz Robbins, Mark Sardella, Nancy Curran Willis, Peyton Pugmire, Rick Shamel, Sharon Mason, stage, theater, theatre, Tony Kushner, Umbrella Community Arts Center

Dock Rescue

13Apr14

April 12 is now officially the earliest date that I have physically entered a body of water in the state of Massachusetts. It is a personal record that I hope will never be broken. It was a perfect spring day for yard work, warm and dry. That’s exactly what I was – warm and dry […]

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Tags: April, cold, dock, lake, Massachusetts, pond, rescue, spring, water

Twilight Zoning

10Apr14

Well, as it stands right now, there will not be a parking garage in downtown Wakefield, Massachusetts and based on recent developments, you might want to hold off on that down payment on an assisted living unit. It’s been anything but dull in our sleepy little town over the last few weeks. There’s blame being […]

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Tags: Assisted Living, Brightview Senior Living, economy, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, parking garage, Politics, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA

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Archive for the ‘Columns & Essays’ Category

Rare Disease Focus of Documentary

No Parking: Pot Zone

William Martin’s talk to focus on Civil War Washington, DC

Dan Shaughnessy Shares Stories from a Life in Sports

Dan Shaughnessy Looks Forward to Sweetser Lecture

Information Pleas

Angels in America Part 1 – Millenium Approaches

Dock Rescue

Twilight Zoning

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