Wakefield Daily Item Mock Newspaper -- Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Wakefield Daily Item
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Selectmen Speak of rallying votes for Gs
-WAKEFIELD
-The Wakefield Board of Selectmen are gathering votes for Props G1 and G2 from radical Republican government officials. Said Chrmn. Lawrence Gailor Seiseman (R), "The budgets of the P.D. and F.D. are overinflated as it is." The vote of the Board of Selectmen will be put forth as a full town electorate vote, and with a 8-4 Rep/Dem balance on the Board, including the outlandish Phyllis Hull, the Wakefield electorate will probably go "Yes" toward G1 and G2, despite over 70% of Wakefieldian voters having claimed to vote "No" on G1/G2 in the popular vote. But Dem rallyers such as Halle Wille are turning votes over on Reps to change the flow for voters. Of a 61%/23% D/R balance, there is a 70%/30% N/Y balance on Props G1 and G2. Wille also convinced Selectmen today to drop Prop J, the prop for the new overlay area code.

Cambridge Univ. College of Christ Choir to hit the Cong tonight
-WAKEFIELD
-As part of their U.S. tour, the Choir of College of Christ of Oxford University in England will hit Congregational Church tonight at 7:30 p.m. Attendance is free. The C of C Cambridge choir is one of the most renowned in the world, and they park it in Wakefield on the second stop of their 12-city tour. The choir performed in Beverly tonight and hits Burlington, Vt. Thursday and Alton, N.H., Friday.

Busy Police Day Includes Attempted Vehicular Arson
-WAKEFIELD
-It wasn't a sit-and-the-depot-and-drink-coffee day for the P.D. yesterday, as they were called out off and on throughout the day. The main call was from a Ledyard Court resident who reported at 10:53 a.m. this morning that a man, identified as Amos Brakleton, 24, 24 Stillwell Av., was trying to set a car alight and drive it into a tree.

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The P.D. continued their ticketing Monday, striking over forty cars on Albion, Church, and North Streets on parking violations.

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Police placed a 27-year-old man, unidentified, under arrest at 6:27 a.m. yesterday morning after he struck a police officer for unknown reasons on Spruce Street.

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In other business yesterday:

• A homeless man inside a Starbucks was deported to Vale View Rd. at 6:41 a.m.
• A cat who attacked a woman and boy on Foundry Street was taken to the Wakefield Animal Hospital at 7:12 a.m.
• A man on Stowitcher Court called police at 7:35 a.m. to ask if they could scare away birds waking him up. Police overlooked the call.
• A collision happened off-road at a pole near Audubon Rd. when Dale Rye, 23, 115 Court St., Reading, veered to avoid colliding with Joseph Lamatou, 26, of 1250 Great Wy., Cambridge, but instead fender-bendered Lamatou and drove into a pole. This occurred at 7:37 a.m.
• At 9:11 a.m., Joshlin Weaver, 23, 201 South Ave., Medford, and Frank Mataro, 51, 112 Water St., collided at the intersection of Main and Morel.
• At 10:07 a.m., an elderly woman on Main St. complained of noise when police found no noise to be present.
• At 11:51 a.m., Rob Andlerst, 49, 146 Johnston Ter., Tewksbury, was questioned for entering Alano's on Main Street with a football helmet on his head.
• At 4:44 p.m., police arrested a man on Ledyard Ct. who had reportedly kicked an off-duty officer in the shin.
• At 7:16 p.m., police arrested Roy Halmont, 30, 13 Flint St., for operating an illegal firework that caused a loud, startling boom all throughout the central Greenwood area.

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In other business this morning:

• Police sent kids yelling and playing in the middle of Foundry St. on their way at 12:29 a.m.

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The fire legion put out a kitchen fire on Merion Street at 7:50 a.m.

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The Department of Water and Power is set to dredge and clean Lake Quannapowitt today.

Waltham clobbers Reds

-WAKEFIELD

-In Babe Ruth League action at Greenwood Field yest., the Waltham Cubs clobbered our Wakefield Reds 17-0. Pitcher/pinch hitter Shawn Jackman had a no-hitter against the Wakefield lineup, and only recorded one walk. Rory Stefeneman grand slammed for Waltham, and third baseman Petey Lotus had a 3RBI triple. Rightfielder Patrick Pinckney snagged what would have been a Wakefield grand slam in the 8th.

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Waltham 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 10 4 17 25 1

WAKEFIELD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1