Posts Tagged ‘MassDEP’
Idle thoughts
08Nov24
From the front lines of the War on Gas-powered cars This week, the Town Council decided that Wakefield should comply with a virtually unknown, 15-year-old state regulation requiring “No Idling” signs to be displayed on school grounds. The issue came up after Councilor Bob Vincent did one of his signature deep dives into the legal […]
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Tags: automobiles, bike lanes, cars, DEP, drivers, Fight Hate, fossil fuels, gasoline, Humor, idling, laws, Lt. Joseph Anderson, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, MassDEP, motorists, No Idling, Opinion, parking, Politics, Robert Vincent, schools, signs, Stop signs, Thomas Mullen, Town Council, Traffic Advisory Committee, trucks, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Public Schools
Sore losers
17Nov23
As everyone knows by now, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has overturned the Wakefield Conservation Commission’s denial of Northeast Metro Tech’s plan to build a new vocational high school The decision means that NEMT can now proceed with plans to build a much-needed new regional vocational high school on a wooded parcel across Hemlock […]
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Tags: activists, appeal, ConCom, corruption, election, environment, forest, high school, injunction, Mark Sardella, MassDEP, Middlesex Superior Court, NEMT, Opinion, Politics, Save the Forest, slander, trade school, treesNortheast Metro Tech, vocational school, Voke, Wakefield Conservation Commission, Wakefield Daily Item, Wetlands Protection Act, woods, Zoom









