The Wakefield Veterans Advisory Board meets Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 6:30 p.m., with agenda details posted on the town calendar. From our own coverage: September home sales ranged widely across town; Drug Take Back Day set for Oct. 24.
This week's Wakefield obituary notices column includes two residents: Badolato-Holland, Terri Ann, 63, who died at her home in Wakefield on October 11, and Connors, Kathleen T., 79, who died Tuesday, October 13, at Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers after a brief illness.
Wakefield's September home sales ranged from $325,230 to $975,000, with the median sale price reaching $773,000, according to Wakefield News's monthly roundup of local real estate transactions. From our own coverage: September home sales top out near $975,000.
Wakefield recorded 20 property transfers between Sept. 18 and Oct. 17, but only nine listed a sale price, ranging from $325,230 to $975,000 with a median of $773,000. The month's top sale was 19 Curve St. at $975,000, sold by Arthur F. and Kathryn Louise Meng Elmes to Elizabeth Watt Boehm.
Early voting opens this weekend at Wakefield's town clerk's office ahead of November 3 election.
Wakefield Town Council weighed a 21-employee union contract and a new wetlands bylaw destined for fall town meeting.
Wakefield's School Committee heard that fiscal 2027 will be the last year the district can tap revolving funds to offset its budget.
Town Hall closes today for the holiday, pushing trash collection back a day across Wakefield. From our own coverage: Wakefield home sales cluster below $1 million in September. Also in today's brief (14 items): Town Hall closed today for the holiday; Arts and Crafts Society hosts guests…
Wakefield Soccer Association confirmed on its website that local fall program games were on as scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 11.
Three Wakefield-resident obituaries were published this week: Casa, Melvin Vincent Jr.; Peters, Muriel Z.; and Piso, Angelo L. Melvin Vincent Casa Jr., 83, died October 8; Muriel Z. Peters, 93, a graduate of Saugus High School who was raised in Saugus, died October 9 in Saugus; and Ange…