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Parking garage post-mortem & preview of future revitalization efforts An informal meeting convened just after the close of Monday’s final town meeting session offered an interesting post-mortem on the parking garage debate as well as a preview of coming efforts to revitalize Wakefield‘s downtown area. Town Administrator Stephen P. Maio announced at the start of […]
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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
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
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
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
[Wakefield Daily Item, April 3, 2014] With the exception of the town’s handling of the Quinn Bill, there was little disagreement during Tuesday night’s debate between the three candidates vying for two seats on the Board of Selectmen in the April 22 Town Election. The forum was moderated by William Carroll with questions posed to […]
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Tags: Betsy Sheeran, Bill Carroll, Board of Selectmen, cable TV, David Watts, debate, elections, Jr., Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, Patrick Glynn, Politics, Roland Cote, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, WCAT
[Wakefield Daily Item, March 25, 2014] Between 150 and 200 local residents packed The Savings Bank Theater at Wakefield High School on Monday, March 24 for a forum on a proposal to build a downtown parking garage in conjunction with an assisted living facility. The evening was evenly divided between presentations by town officials and […]
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[Wakefield Daily Item, March 17, 2014] The two candidates vying for the Massachusetts State Senate seat formerly held by now Congressman Katherine Clark squared off last week in an 80 minute debate at Wakefield’s WCAT studios. Clear differences emerged between the Democrat, State Rep. Jason Lewis of Winchester, and Republican Monica Medeiros, an Alderman and […]
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Tags: Bill Carroll, David Watts Jr., election, Jason Lewis, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, Monica Medeiros, Politics, State Senate, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, WCAT
To benefit The Scholarship Foundation of Wakefield, Massachusetts Student directors from The Scholarship Foundation of Wakefield (TSF) met with the Board of Selectmen to discuss the upcoming 34th Annual TSF Phonathon on Saturday, March 22, 2014.. Between 12 and 4 p.m. on that day, students will be calling local residents. The annual Phonathon helps raise […]
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Tags: Ann Santos, Betsy Sheeran, Brigid Scanlon, Cathy Donovan, college, Maggie Scanlon, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, Patrick Glynn, Phonathon, Phyllis Hull, scholarship, The Scholarship Foundation, Tiziano Doto, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Will Shea
Directed by former Wakefield resident Nancy Curran Willis St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, and as much as we’d like to, most of us can’t just drop everything and go off to celebrate in Ireland. Fortunately, the Arlington Friends of the Drama are offering a very attractive alternative that will whisk you off to Ireland […]
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Tags: Anne Sullivan, Antione Malfroy-Carmine, Arlington Friends of the Drama, Demetra Tseckares-Restuccia, Iain Bason, Ireland, Irish, Jenna Lourenco, Jennifer Soucy, Katie Higgins, Marina Carr, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, Nancy Curran Willis, Nellie Farrington, play, The Mai, theater, theatre, Tricia Akowicz, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA
Mark Sardella 