''The Wakefield Daily Item'' is an independent weekday

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published in

Wakefield, Massachusetts Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, incorporated in 1812 and located about north-northwest of Downtown Boston. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the 2020 census. Wakefield offers ...

, with issues published Mondays through Fridays.

History

Fred W. Young printed the first ''Item'' on May 7, 1894, running the paper until selling to printer Alstead W. Browne in March 1900; he sold out to Harris M. Dolbeare, who established the Wakefield Item Company April 1, 1900.WakefieldItem.com: About
accessed January 26, 2007. The Item is famous for the "Looking Backward" column, detailing events that took place in Wakefield and around the country 25, 50, 75, and 100 years ago from the date of the newspaper. The Item's presidents have all been Dolbeare's heirs—his widow Emma Dolbeare, sons Cyrus and Richard Dolbeare, and now grandson Glenn Dolbeare. The paper has had seven editors: Harris Dolbeare (1900–his death in 1938), Gardner Campbell (1938–1953), Robert C. Reed (1953–1966), Kendall Dolbeare (1966–1986), Janet Constantakes (1986–1988) and Peter Rossi (since 1988). The newspaper competes for readers in Wakefield with a local edition of the '' Daily Times Chronicle'', based in nearby Woburn and

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; and with the ''Wakefield Observer'', a

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published at the Beverly office of

Community Newspaper Company Community Newspaper Company, or CNC, was the largest publisher of weekly newspapers in eastern Massachusetts in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century. It also published several daily newspapers in Greater Boston. The company's propertie ...

. On January 27, 2009, the Item changed its format from

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to tabloid. The Item is located at 26 Albion Street in the

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External links

''The Wakefield Daily Item'' Website
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