For those who had clamored since before April’s Annual Town Meeting for a three-way meeting of the Selectmen, Finance Committee and School Committee to look at the town’s finances, the first public meeting of the Tri-Board on June 11 must have been something of a disappointment.
The residents of the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts who advocated [...]

Vote NO on Wakefield, MA school budget
In next Tuesday’s referendum election on the $27.4 million School Department budget, the only vote that make sense is a “No” vote.

This conclusion has nothing to do with the value of education, the needs of the Wakefield School Department or the sincerity of the School Committee. It has everything [...]

Sentimental comedy about seniors at Stoneham Theatre
It doesn’t hurt that playwright/director Jack Neary’s sentimental comedy about senior citizens is set in a working-class eastern Massachusetts neighborhood and features five characters who, to those who grew up in this area, will be as familiar as their own neighbors. But “The Porch” is also a very funny [...]

As far as the Zaccone family knew, the beautifully engraved watch was lost forever.
It had been awarded to Guy Zaccone of Wakefield back in 1958 by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts – the oldest military organization in the Western Hemisphere. Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company members served on every battlefield from [...]

Thoughts on the April 7, 2008 Wakefield (Massachusetts) Town Meeting
Sometimes it pays to listen to our elder statesmen.
But when we become caught up in a righteous cause, it’s easy to ignore the voices of experience in our midst. We dismiss them at our own peril.
Advocates to fund the School Department budget did a good job [...]

Sisters of Swing at Stoneham Theatre through May 4
You don’t have to be a member of the Greatest Generation to enjoy Sisters of Swing, the tribute to the Andrews Sisters currently playing at Stoneham Theatre.
But considering that the Andrews Sisters sold over 90 million records, had more Top Ten hits than the Beatles or [...]

The Cutting, at Stoneham Theatre
Each act opens with the sounds of sea gulls, although their full significance will not be realized until much later. Currently at Stoneham Theatre, The Cutting is part mystery, part psychological study and part exploration of the honesty of silence - as it draws you into the mind of a [...]

The best thing to come out of last week’s FCC hearing into Comcast Corp.’s Internet polices had nothing to do with the subject of the hearing. The purpose of the hearing was to look into the communications giant’s network management practices.
But the thing that tickled me about the news story was the fact that Comcast [...]

Every year at around this time, just as the shock of your holiday debt is beginning to set in, the telecoms (formerly known as the cable companies) send out their own Season’s Greetings – in the form of a rate “adjustment.”
Somehow, the rates never seem to get adjusted down.

Snow from Comverse parking lots at Beal property dumped into Lake
As Wakefield, Massachusetts resident Bob McLaughlin pulled off the Route 128 exit ramp on to North Avenue one day last December, he decided to take a slight detour en route to his Water Street home. The region had just been hit with the second of [...]