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The Spirit of Giving

23Dec15

‘Tis the Christmas season, and Mr. Paid Reporter Man is filled with the spirit of giving toward the naughtiest and the nicest in Wakefield. He’s made his list and checked it twice. If you don’t find your name on his list, perhaps you haven’t been sufficiently naughty or nice. To the Lake Quannapowitt Water Quality […]

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Tags: Alison Simcox, Brian McGrail, Bronwyn Dell-Volpe, Christmas, Colonial Point Apartments, Conservation Commission, Dan Lieber, Dennis Cloherty Heron Pond, Douglas Heath, Fred Rich, Humor, Lake Quannapowitt, MBTA, Michael Collins, Pat Bruno, Politics, Richard Stinson, Robert McLaughlin, Robert Mitchell, Seth Moulton, Shaw's, Stephen P. Maio, Thomas Mullen, Wakefield Civic League, Wakefield Human Rights Commission, Wakefield MA, Wakefield School Committee, ZBA

Wakefield Public Access TV: the Dark Ages

17Dec15

This month, Wakefield Community Access Television celebrates its 25th anniversary as Wakefield’s public access television operation. It’s hard to believe that WCAT has been around for a quarter century. What’s even harder to believe is that public access television has been around in Wakefield, MA for even longer than that. WCAT was formed in December […]

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Tags: Betamax, Bob Lazarus, Bob Seibel, cable TV, Chance Langton, Charles Laquidara, Charlie Brooks, Charlie Golub, comedy, Gary Stewart, Janeane Garofalo, Lisa J, Massachusetts, Mr. Ed, Rich Ceisler, Tony V, Topsfield Fair, TV, video, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Public Access Television, Wakefield Tonight, Warner-Amex Cable, WBCN, WCAT

Downtown reality check

11Dec15

by Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) Who did she think she was – this outside consultant with her studies and her facts and figures – coming in and telling us that our downtown isn’t the economic Death Valley we’ve been led to believe it is? How dare she suggest that revitalization doesn’t happen overnight and […]

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Tags: Brothers Restaurant & Deli, business, downtown, economic development, Farmland, FinePoints, Main Street, Mark Sardella, MarketStreet, Massachusetts, Peg Barringer, Reading MA, revitalization, Sabatinos, Sakura, The Savings Bank, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA

Fantasy League

20Nov15

The irony of the moment was not lost on acting Planning Board chairman Bill Spaulding. “I do find it interesting that you’re questioning the parking – the amount of it,” Spaulding told Bronwyn Della-Volpe at hearing last week on Town Meeting Article 12, which was aimed at revitalizing the downtown with more mixed-use, residential-above-retail development. […]

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Tags: Brightview Senior Living, Bronwyn Della-Volpe, commuter rail, downtown, housing, Main Street, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, Melrose MA, mixed-use development, parking, Pat Bruno, Paul Reavis, Planning Board, residential, retail, Town Meeting, Wakefield Civic League, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, William Spaulding, zoning

Town Meeting article seeks mixed use, residential above retail in downtown

14Nov15

by Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) One of the zoning measures that will go before the voters at next week’s Regular Town Meeting seeks to encourage a shift toward multifamily, mixed-use developments in Wakefield‘s downtown area. Article 12 on the Nov. 16 Town Meeting warrant would make it easier for developers to propose projects in […]

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Tags: Brian McGrail, Bronwyn Della-Volpe, business, business district, developer, downtown, Main Street, Mark Sardella, Matthew Lowry, mixed-use development, multi-family dwellings, Pat Bruno, Paul Reavis, Planning Board, public transportation, railroad, residential, retail, Town Meeting, Town Planner, village, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, zoning, Zoning Board of Appeals, Zoning Bylaw

Town Meeting to consider open space development bylaw revisions

13Nov15

by Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) One of the Zoning articles that Wakefield voters will be grappling with at the Regular Town Meeting that gets underway on Monday, Nov. 16 relates to open space subdivisions, also known as conservation subdivisions. At a public hearing earlier this week, the Planning Board voted to recommend favorable action […]

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Tags: bylaw, conservation, developer, development, Mark Sardella, open space, Paul Reavis, Planning Board, subdivision, Town Meeting, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA

Bonnie and Clyde ride again in Concord

12Nov15

by Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) “It’s not often a community theater gets the opportunity to produce the New England premier production of a Broadway musical,” says former longtime Wakefield resident Nancy Curran Willis. She is directing the New England premier of Bonnie and Clyde at The Umbrella Community Arts Center in Concord, Mass. The […]

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Tags: Aaron Chow, Adam Sherkanowski, Andrea Giangreco, Ariel Sargent, Arthur Comer, Ashleigh Vittum, Becca Griffing, Ben DiScipio, Bonnie and Clyde, Brad Amidon, Brian Boruta, Broadway, Cathy Merlo, Colin Lester Fleming, Concord MA, Connell Benn, David Rodrigues, Don Black, Frank Wildhorn, Glenn Kane, Jim Ansart, Joel Hersh, Ludovica Burtone, Mark Sardella, musical, Nancy Curran Willis, Nate Ramsayer, Nicholas V. Raponi, Owen Reinhold, Pam Sontag, Pat Lawrence, Paul Alperin, Rusty Chandler, Ruth Fontanella, Sarah Cowell, Sarajane Morse Mullins, Sean Crosley, Texas, theater, theatre, Thomas Carroll, Tim McShea, Tom Young, Tristyn Sepersky, Umbrella Community Arts Center, Wakefield Daily Item, West Dallas

Veterans deserve big turnout on Nov. 11

07Nov15

Next Wednesday is Veterans Day. It’s one of the few holidays left that hasn’t been consigned to the nearest Monday in order to create another long weekend for those who have the day off. If you’re not a public employee, chances are you have to work on Veterans Day. On one hand, I understand not […]

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Tags: Air Force, Alicia Reddin, Army, Coast Guard, Galvin Middle School, Gen. John R. Galvin, Global War on Terror, Gulf War, Korean War, Marine Corps, Mark Sardella, Marnie Sheeran, military, Navy, November 11, soldiers, veterans, Veterans' Day, Vietnam War, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, war, women, World War I, World War II

Wakefield’s art theft mystery

03Nov15

by Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) It’s not exactly the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, but it appears that Wakefield may be dealing with an art theft mystery of its own. In the past year, a combined total of three paintings have gone missing from two of the town’s oldest institutions, located almost directly across […]

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Tags: Amos Boardman, Art, art theft, artist, Beebe Library, Elizabeth Lowry, Franklin Poole, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Janine Fabiano, Joe Cresta, Joseph C. Payro, Joseph Payro, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, painting, Rembrandt, Sharon Gilley, Storm on the Sea of Galilee, The Concert, theft, Unitarian Universalist Church, Vermeer, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Police

The enduring issue of downtown parking

23Oct15

By Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) Is there a parking problem in downtown Wakefield? The answer can depend on whom you ask. Some blame empty storefronts on a lack of downtown parking, while others say that parking in downtown Wakefield isn’t really a problem if you’re willing to walk a couple of blocks. But even […]

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Tags: Brightview Senior Living, cars, downtown, enforcement, Hart's Hardware, Lt. Steve Skory, Mark Sardella, meters, parking, parking garage, parking ticket, Paul Reavis, police, Police Chief Richard Smith, Steve Maio, vehicles, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Police Department

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Archive for the ‘Wakefield’ Category

The Spirit of Giving

Wakefield Public Access TV: the Dark Ages

Downtown reality check

Fantasy League

Town Meeting article seeks mixed use, residential above retail in downtown

Town Meeting to consider open space development bylaw revisions

Bonnie and Clyde ride again in Concord

Veterans deserve big turnout on Nov. 11

Wakefield’s art theft mystery

The enduring issue of downtown parking

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