Archive for the ‘Wakefield’ Category

The arrival of summer also signals the return of transient vendors to the areas around Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield, Massachusetts–most visibly, Fred’s Franks, the hot dog stand at the head of the Lake. This seems like as good a time as any to review the recent history of that part of town. When the old […]


Boston Police are going after motorists who don’t stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. According to a report on WHDH 7News, cops have set up a sting operation where a plain-clothesfemale officer posing as a young mother, using the crosswalk, attempts to cross the street with a doll in her stroller. The Channel 7 report showed […]


Wakefield resident retires after 39 years Boston DPW chief On a Saturday morning in March 2007, recently retired Joe Casazza got to clear the snow from his own driveway on Sycamore Road in Wakefield instead of spending the weekend in Boston overseeing the city’s snow removal efforts. After 39 years as Boston’s Public Works Commissioner, […]


For a writer known primarily for fiction, Andre Dubus III began in a seemingly unorthodox manner last night, by reading from a piece of non-fiction that he wrote for Boston Magazine. Speaking to a full house in the Wakefield-Lynnfield United Methodist Church, the author of House of Sand and Fog was in Wakefield to deliver […]


NEW MONOPOLIES

05May07

I never thought I’d say it, but I’m starting to miss the cable companies. Whipping boys don’t grow on trees, you know.


Q. What did the Canada goose say at Town Meeting? A. I just flew in from the Common, and are my wings tired!


As we approach another Memorial Day with our country at war, it will be interesting to watch the attendance at events around the country. We often hear from those in the anti-war ranks that they oppose the war but “support the troops.” And yet, when I attended last November’s Veterans’ Day observance in my hometown […]


Wakefield Tonight, 20 Years Later I know what got me thinking about “Wakefield Tonight,” the weekly live cable TV comedy/variety show that I produced on Wakefield Public Access Television twenty years ago, from late 1985 through the end of 1986.


“Anyone who sells merchandise by going either from town to town or from place to place in the same town, either on foot or from any animal or vehicle, is acting as a hawker or peddler. No vendor has a right to a specific location.” –Chapter 210, Code of the Town of Wakefield Somebody remind […]


Owner Richie Canto is sitting in a booth in the dining room of the new Toody’s restaurant at 49 Water Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It’s approaching the 3 p.m. Saturday closing time, and the double lines still stretch from the counter almost out the door.