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CO & Smoke Detectors: “They can’t save your life if they aren’t working” (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Mar 12, 2013

Wakefield Fire Chief Michael Sullivan reminds Wakefield residents to please take a few minutes today to insure that all carbon monoxide and smoke detectors in your home are working properly.

Caring About Your Heart: Seniors Helping Seniors of Metro-North Can Help with Care

  • DBC
  • Feb 12, 2013

Seniors Helping Seniors of Metro-North offers an extended family support system to care for seniors needing non-medical help with caregivers who are local, active, compassionate older adults.

It’s Hell Out There: Beating the Blizzard of `78 (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Feb 6, 2013

I submitted this to WCVB/Channel 5 and he story was used and referred to in the making of Dick Albert’s Weather Special on the Blizzard of '78 for their 25-year Anniversary program.

KidSing performs We Are Lights on Nov. 16, 7 pm at UU Church in Reading (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Nov 8, 2012

Kidsing's Holiday program, We Are Lights, by third to eighth graders, will be presented FREE, Friday night, Nov. 16, 7:00 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church, 239 Woburn St., Reading, MA.

Points per number of US Presidents shines light on Accomplishments (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Nov 5, 2012

List of 43 accomplishments and a potential 44th one of Obama's first term as President of the USA. These are facts to give the voter a opportunity to make an informed decision on election day.

Warren's Native American Heritage Disputed by Brown (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Oct 1, 2012

Voters need to think deeper and consider what is best for the constituents that Brown supposedly represents.

Education: WAAV Suggests Parental Aids for Dealing with Social Technology (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Sep 14, 2012

There are now websites available which deal with social issues facing our preteens and teens in ways that are informative for parents, as well as kid-friendly and interactive for youths.

My Place By the Sea, at the tip of Rockport's Bearskin Neck, Worth the Trip and the Price! (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Jul 14, 2012

A gem on the ocean, My Place By the Sea at the tip of Rockport's Bearskin Neck is a pearl in the oyster of restaurant finds. Whether on the deck, porch or inside, the view is as glorious as the food.

Issues

Coca-Cola Holiday Packaging Nixed - IMHO, Really? (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Dec 2, 2011

Coca-Cola is receiving news coverage due to their holiday packaging to promote saving polar bears, a trademark of the company. Looking at the whole picture, it appears to be an unnecessary complaint.

September 11: Publicly Observed or Not, Please Remember! (in Wakefield Patch)

  • DBC
  • Sep 9, 2011

Ten years later, we still reel in disbelief that we have not woken up yet from this worst of nightmares.

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