Posts Tagged ‘Mark Sardella’
Pretty Vacant
“Isn’t it a shame about all the empty storefronts downtown?” “Which ones are empty?” “Well, I haven’t been downtown lately. Nobody goes there anymore because there’s too much traffic and not enough parking.” “Oh.” There’s one myth almost as persistent as the one that Wakefield has become so overdeveloped that there’s no room for an […]
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Goodbye Green Monster
By MARK SARDELLA BOSTON – Fans of the World Champion Boston Red Sox will notice a big difference when they attend 2019 home games at the park that John Updike once called, “a lyric little bandbox.” In preparation for the team’s home opener, crews have already begun dismantling Fenway Park‘s iconic “Green Monster,” the 37-foot […]
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Tags: Andrew Benintendi, baseball, Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park, Green Monster, home runs, Humor, John Henry, John Updike, left field, Mark Sardella, Politics, TomYawkey, wall, walls
The town and the city
Once upon a time, there was a perfect little town that had the perfect number of people living in the perfect number of homes. That perfect little town had perfect little downtown with the perfect number of perfect little shops, selling perfectly adorable items to the perfect number of customers. Then, the town fathers let […]
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Tags: 600 North, apartments, Brightview Senior Living, building, commuter rail, condos, development, Dunkin' Donuts, factories, fairy tales, Families, housing, Lisa's Family Pizzeria, Malden MA, Mark Sardella, MBTA, population, smart growth, Town Meeting, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Landing, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Station, zoning
Junkyard Junction
It’s time for our weekly vocabulary test. Today’s words are “clothing” and “shoes.” Let’s start by using both words on in a sentence. “A recliner is not clothing, and mattresses are not shoes.” Congratulations! You’re smarter than a fourth-grader! You’ve also been eliminated as suspect in the trash dumping at the green donation bins in […]
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Tags: 9/11, charity, clothing, donations, furniture, Humor, JFK, Junction, junk, literacy. reading, Mark Sardella, MG Fitness, Opinion, police, Politics, recliner, shoes, sofa, Town of Wakefield, toys, video cameras, Wakefield Daily Item
‘Tis the season of giving…
It’s Christmastime and, if I may so boldly observe, it’s cold outside. Meanwhile, Rudolph has contacted the Reindeer Rights Commission to report bullying and harassment. Climate change has claimed the life of Frosty the Snowman and gender fluid Santa Claus is coming to town. Into this season of gloom, I bring a ray of light […]
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Cold comfort
‘Tis the season to be banning things. You’ve no doubt heard about efforts to ban the song Baby, It’s Cold Outside. And that’s not even the most absurd example. It’s becoming harder to argue that the War on Christmas is a myth when stories like the following keep surfacing. In 2018, 69 years after it […]
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Tags: Altamont, Baby It's Cold Outside, ban, Benny Goodman, Christmas, Gillette Stadium, Gimme Shelter, Hells Angels, hippies, joke, love, Lynn Stuart Parramore, Mark Sardella, Mick Jagger, misogyny, peace, Rolling Stones, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Trader Joe's, Under My Thumb, understanding, Wakefield Daily Item, War on Christmas
Early and often
The Nov. 6 election is over. Or was it the Nov. 2 election? Or the Oct. 30 election? It all depends on if you voted early and on which day. Because now, every day is Election Day! Election Day used to be special day. Not so much when you have 12 days to vote. When […]
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Tags: ballot, candidates, early voting, election, Election Day, Humor, Mark Sardella, mid-terms, November 6, Opinion, Politics, polls, signs, Town Clerk, vote, voting, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA
Weeding out NIMBYism
Well, well, well. It seems that as the date approaches for the first recreational marijuana shops to open, more and more communities in Massachusetts are getting cold feet – including towns that voted overwhelmingly to legalize the bud. That includes Brookline, where they voted 17,803-11,066 to legalize recreational marijuana statewide. But now, in a community […]
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Apathy grips Hub
When the New England Patriots are in the playoffs, people can’t wait to hang their Patriot flags and put out their Patriot signs, banners, pennants and even display their inflated Patriots lawn ornaments. Sometimes even before the regular season ends. You can’t drive half a mile in town without seeing Patriots everywhere. So, what are […]
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