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Wakefield municipal building ready for sports practice

By P.J. GLISSON

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WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield city council voted Monday to adopt temporary rules regarding the use of its newly remodeled community room.

In the past 10 months, a local initiative called 4 the Kids solicited donations and held fundraisers to collect about $20,000 to replace the community room floor with a sports-friendly surface, so that younger kids from the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School would have a place to practice when older kids were using the school gym.

Now that the new floor is installed, council members agreed upon a set of rules to protect the c...